1, what is mussels
Mussels, medicinal part of the mussels for the mussel family animals back angle toothless mussels or pleated crown mussels, triangular sail mussels and other mussels of the meat. It can be caught throughout the year.
Shell slightly resembles an unequal triangle. The anterior part is short and low, and the anterior dorsal margin is inconspicuously crowned. The posterior part is long and high, with the posterior dorsal margin sloping out upward and stretching into a large crown. Shell surface dark yellowish green to blackish brown. The articulation is strong, with a tall posterior lateral tooth on each side of the shell, and a weak anterior lateral tooth. It is also widely distributed and is found in most parts of the country.
2, the effectiveness of mussels
Clearing heat, nourishing yin, bright eyes, detoxification. Treatment of fever, thirst, hematochezia, under the belt, hemorrhoidal fistula, red eyes, eczema.
1, "Food Therapy Materia Medica": "Lord too hot, quench the poison of wine, quench thirst, remove eye red."
2, "Gleanings of Materia Medica": "the main women's labor loss of blood, bright day, remove dampness, quench thirst."
3, "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Brighten the eyes, quench thirst, remove vexation and relieve fever and toxins, tonifying women's labor, hemorrhage, and hemorrhoidal fistula, hemorrhagic bleeding, and bring down."
4, "The Materia Medica Again": "Treating liver fever, kidney failure, supporting spots and rashes, relieving pox, cooling and quenching thirst."
5, "with interest in the house dietary spectrum": "clearing heat and nourishing yin, nourishing the liver and cooling blood, quenching the wind to relieve alcohol, bright eyes and fixed madness."
3, the medicinal value of mussels
1, the treatment of pediatric fetus poisoning, eczema: fresh river clams. Burning storage sex, research fine. Fragrant oil mixing coated with the affected area. ("Jilin Chinese herbal medicine")
2, the treatment of nasal boils: live river clams a, ice tablets a point, borax two points. Borax and ice chips finely, into the clam shell. To be dead, with an aqueous solution drops into the nose. (Jilin Chinese Herbal Medicine)
4, mussel meat usage and dosage
Internal use: boiled food, 3 to 5 taels. Externally: burnt and stored powder mixing compresses or take aqueous solution of nose drops.
5, mussels side effects
Take with caution if the spleen and stomach cold.
1, "Materia Medica Diffracta"; "eat more wind, move cold."
2, "with the rest of the sub-cookbook": "eat more cold in the middle, the external infection has not been cleared, the spleen is weak slippery people are avoided."
6, mussels diet
1, the treatment of yin deficiency and internal heat, thirst, thirst, good hunger, polyuria: 250 grams of fresh mussels, washed and cut into pieces, put in a casserole dish, add the right amount of water, with martial arts fire to boil, and then change the fire to stew until ripe, add salt seasoning to eat. Eat meat, drink soup.
2, treatment of liver yin insufficiency, dizziness, eyes in more than mucus: 60 grams of mussels, 15 grams of Xiaku Cao, 15 grams of cassia seeds. Mussels cleaned and cut into pieces, will be cleaned, packed in a gauze bag, tighten the mouth of the bag, and put people in a casserole, add the right amount of water, with martial arts fire after boiling, switch to the fire decoction for 30 minutes, until the meat is cooked, go to the gauze bag, eat meat and drink soup.
Mussels and bitter melon soup
Materials
250 grams of bitter melon, 200 grams of mussels, 10 grams of lotus leaves
Practice
1) Remove the flesh of the bitter melon and cut it into segments.
2) Cut the mussels into thin slices.
3) Boil the water and then put the lotus leaves, then put the bitter melon, 3 minutes later, until the bitter melon and lotus leaves are 80% mature, add salt and chicken essence, fish out the lotus leaves, and finally put in the mussels a little hot on the line.
Tips
1) In addition to containing insulin-like polypeptides, bitter melon has a large number of high-energy cleansing lipids. It can quickly remove some excess lipids in the blood. It has the effect of lowering fat and losing weight. Clinical studies have found that a large number of wet substances, including lipids in the body after the accumulation of the body will prompt the body to produce a role called insulin resistance, will reduce the effectiveness of insulin itself, thus leading to the occurrence of type II diabetes mellitus.
2) Mussels have certain pharmacological effects, such as clearing heat, nourishing Yin, bright eyes, detoxification; at the same time has an anti-cancer effect, but the spleen and stomach cold people should reduce its intake.
7, eat seafood taboos
1, seafood must be cooked
eat seafood must be eaten has been cooked, because seafood cooking is not cooked, then will contain a lot of bacteria. One of the main Vibrio parahaemolyticus has a high degree of heat resistance. When cooking seafood, you should pay attention to cook in boiling water for about 5 minutes to be able to effectively sterilize. Especially when eating raw fish, must pay attention to the freshness of the fish and hygiene.
2, dead shellfish should not be eaten
Shellfish is a lot of people like to eat seafood like a kind of, but pay attention to if it is the death of the shellfish outside, the protein it contains will accelerate the decomposition of a large number of bacterial toxins, a threat to human health. In addition shellfish itself with more bacteria, in addition to eating fresh shellfish, but also pay attention to cooking shellfish to be cooked to sterilization.
3, eat seafood do not drink beer
Eat seafood should pay attention to not drink beer at the same time. Seafood after metabolism will form uric acid, and drinking beer will accelerate the formation of uric acid, a large amount of uric acid can easily cause gout and other symptoms.
4, eat seafood do not eat fruit
Eat seafood should pay attention to not eat fruit at the same time. Seafood contains a lot of protein, calcium and other nutrients, and fruit contains more ellagic acid, one will affect the body for the absorption of protein, two ellagic acid is also easy to combine with calcium to form an indigestible substance so that people have abdominal pain and other discomforts. It is best to eat seafood 2 hours before eating fruit.
5, do not drink tea after eating seafood
After eating seafood, we should pay attention to not drink tea immediately. Tea also has a large amount of tannic acid, it is also very easy to make people appear abdominal pain, vomiting, nausea and other discomforts, serious may also cause stones and other diseases. The same after eating seafood to drink tea also interval of more than 2 hours.
6, allergies to eat seafood with caution
If you are allergic to yourself, you should pay attention to eating seafood with caution. One is characterized by allergens will trigger allergies, the second is the seafood in the protein decomposition process of certain substances may also induce allergies, for eating seafood caused by allergies at present there is no effective way to prevent.
7, pregnant women should eat less seafood
Pregnant women should try to eat less seafood. Especially cold crab, turtle and other easily triggered miscarriage. In addition to seafood allergies, cold and weak pregnant women, should not eat seafood. If a healthy pregnant woman should also avoid eating seafood in early pregnancy. The amount of seafood eaten by pregnant women is best controlled within 100 grams each time, not more than 2 times a week.