Mutton is moderately fat and lean, fresh and tender, has a delicious taste, good palatability, rich nutrition, and is widely eaten. It can be processed into various mutton products.

Mutton products also have high medicinal value and have medical and dietary health care effects. Mutton has high nutritional value and is easy to digest. When ordinary people eat mutton, 99% of the protein and fat can be digested, and the digestibility is higher than that of beef and pork. Mutton contains more than 50% more calcium than beef, and contains 1 times more iron than beef and 4 times more than pork. It is suitable for nourishing the elderly, patients, and children. Mutton has low cholesterol content (beef is 106 mg, pork is 126 mg, and mutton is 70 mg per 100 grams of meat). It is an ideal food for patients with high blood pressure and those who are taboo about cholesterol.

Compendium of Materia Medica written by Li Shizhen of the Ming Dynasty states: "Mutton is bitter, sweet, hot, non-toxic, and can cure fatigue and coldness. It can nourish the body and replenish qi, relieve anxiety and stop convulsions. Anything that tastes the same as mutton can nourish blood." Virtual". Famous doctor Li Gao believes: "Mutton is a tangible thing that can replenish the body with tangible muscles, ginseng can replenish qi, and mutton can replenish the body...". Eating mutton regularly has a tonic and therapeutic effect on tuberculosis, pneumonia, tracheitis, nephritis, hepatitis, diabetes, asthma, anemia, postpartum Qi and blood deficiency and other diseases of deficiency and cold.

Each part of the sheep body has unique medical and health care functions. Li Ying and others believe:

Sheep liver: Sheep liver nourishes the liver, specializes in treating liver evil diseases, is beneficial to the blood and liver , eyesight function. It is often used to treat fatigue, night blindness, cataracts and other diseases.

Sheep tripe: Sheep stomach. It can replenish deficiency, strengthen the spleen and stomach, and treat fatigue, thirst, night sweats, and frequent urination. Boil the sheep tripe and eat it on an empty stomach to treat stomachache due to coldness and thirst, and the effect is obvious.

Sheep kidney: It can replenish kidney qi, replenish the essence, and treat kidney deficiency and strain, waist and spine pain, weak feet and knees, deafness, thirst, impotence, and frequent urination. If consumed by healthy people, it can nourish the five internal organs and strengthen the body.

Sheep bones: can nourish the kidneys, strengthen the muscles and bones, and treat fatigue, waist and knee weakness, muscle and bone spasms, chronic diarrhea, and chronic dysentery. For those who have difficulty in rotating the waist and spine due to coldness in the kidneys, you can take a sheep spine, boil it, mash it, dip it in garlic, and eat it on an empty stomach. This sheep spine porridge has remarkable curative effects.

Sheep gallbladder: It can clear away heat, detoxify and improve eyesight. It has certain effects on wind-heat, red eyes and heat-induced sores. For pulmonary tuberculosis, especially those with early infiltrative lesions, the gallbladder opening of fresh sheep gallbladder can be tied tightly with a thread, washed with clean water, steamed in water for 1 to 2 hours, and swallowed on an empty stomach in the morning or before going to bed, 1 piece per day. It can also be taken in divided doses or made into pills or powder.

Sheep's horn: similar in function to antelope horn, it has the functions of calming, reducing fever, replenishing qi, and calming the nerves. It can prevent and treat headaches caused by high blood pressure, postpartum abdominal pain, and menstrual pain. For children with convulsions, burn the horns and grind them into pieces. Take 2.5 grams (5 minutes) twice a day.

Sheep blood: stop bleeding, remove blood stasis, drink raw to relieve various toxins. If a person feels poisoned, drinking 1 liter of sheep blood can relieve the symptoms. Those who take arsenic can survive if they take sheep's blood immediately. Boil sheep blood, mix it with vinegar and eat it. It is very effective in treating blood in the stool.

The whole body of sheep is a treasure. The biopharmaceutical industry has used sheep organs to produce cytochrome C, liver extract, placenta powder, SOD powder, etc. With the development of sheep raising industry, the therapeutic health and medicinal value of mutton and offal will play a greater role in people's lives.