The Chinese medicine believes that silkworm chrysalis is sweet, warm, salty and pungent, and belongs to the spleen, stomach and kidney meridian. It has the efficacy of warming yang and tonifying the kidney, dispelling wind and removing dampness, strengthening the spleen and eliminating accumulation, and is suitable for kidney yang deficiency, impotence and spermatorrhea, rheumatism and arthralgia, and pediatric chancre.

Silkworm pupa is the pupal body left after reeling the cocoon of the silkworm, Bombyx mori, family Bombyx mori. Chinese medicine believes that this taste sweet, warm, salty, pungent, to the spleen, stomach, kidney meridian. It has the efficacy of warming yang and tonifying the kidney, dispelling wind and removing dampness, strengthening the spleen and eliminating accumulation, and is suitable for kidney yang deficiency, impotence and spermatorrhea, rheumatism and arthralgia, and pediatric chancre. It is used for treating pediatric chancre, increasing muscle mass, reducing fever, and removing roundworms. It is said to "harmonize the spleen and stomach, dispel wind and dampness, and increase yang qi".

Pharmacological studies have shown that silkworm chrysalis contains 28% ~ 30% of the fat and 56% ~ 63% of the protein, but also contains calcium, phosphorus, iron and other minerals, rich in vitamins and hormones. The contained protein is easy to hydrolyze, similar to human proteins, the human body absorption rate of about 90%.

So, eating silkworm pupa can not only supplement fat, protein and a variety of vitamins, but also increase brain cell vitality, improve thinking ability. Silkworm pupa is rich in chitin, and its extract is named chitosan. Research shows that chitin and chitosan can improve immunity and strengthen the liver. It has been used as a new food additive in the United States and Japan. Silkworm pupa contains a large amount of arginine, more than chicken, fish, meat and eggs. Arginine can eliminate fatigue and improve sexual function. It is an important raw material for manufacturing male sperm proteins, and has obvious curative effects on chronic hepatitis, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, leukopenia, and malnutrition. In cooperation with Swedish scientists in China, a broad-spectrum immune substance has been extracted from the pupa of Quercus serrata. It can be used to treat cancer, arteriosclerosis, hepatitis and nephritis. Silkworm pupa can inhibit Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and has good anti-inflammatory and anti-infective effects. The unsaturated fatty acids contained therein can reduce excess cholesterol in the body. It has been proved that silkworm pupa can regulate the metabolism of sugar and fat.

If cooked in the conventional way, some people can't accept the appearance and skin color of silkworm chrysalis and don't want to eat it. In fact, they can put it in boiling water, put it in a plastic bag and put it in the refrigerator. When they are ready to use it, the brown skin will flake off and turn milky white and the cooking will be colorful. Pupae should be washed repeatedly before cooking to remove harmful substances. Seasonings such as onions, ginger and rice wine should be added to the food during cooking. People with allergies should not eat.

Six silkworm pupa therapeutic dietary recipes

1. Walnut stewed silkworm pupa: 150 grams of walnuts, silkworm pupa 80 grams, cinnamon 5 grams. Cinnamon will be washed, ground into a very fine powder. Silkworm chrysalis washed, dried, slightly fried, with walnuts into a large bowl, add the right amount of water, add cinnamon powder, mix well, stewed under water. One dose per day. It can nourish the liver and kidney, strengthen the brain, warm the lungs and moisten the intestines, and blacken the beard and hair, and is suitable for lumbar and knee soreness, frequent urination, impotence and spermatorrhea, premature whitening of the beard and hair, and pulmonary tuberculosis. Due to insufficient essence and blood.

2. silkworm chrysalis fried leek: silkworm chrysalis 50g, leek 200g, seasonings. Leeks and silkworm pupae were washed and spare. Put the frying pan on the fire, put the oil, with the drained water will be slightly fried silkworm pupae, and then into the leek section, add ginger, fine salt, monosodium glutamate, stir fry evenly, plate. It can replenish qi and nourish blood, warm the kidneys and strengthen the yang, relieve fatigue, and is suitable for high blood cholesterol, hypertension, arteriosclerosis, impotence, spermatorrhea, constipation and so on.

3. Fried silkworm chrysalis: silkworm chrysalis appropriate amount, vegetable oil appropriate amount, seasoning appropriate amount. Wash the silkworm pupae, control water spare. Frying pan put vegetable oil, heating, frying silkworm pupae, and then pour off the excess oil, leaving a little bit of the bottom oil, heating

5. Steamed chrysalis meat: silkworm pupae 50 grams, 150 grams of refined mutton, walnut kernel 100 grams, seasoning moderate. Wash the mutton, sliced, with silkworm pupae in the frying pan stir-fried until browned, put into a bowl, add walnut kernels, scallions, ginger, salt, lard, monosodium glutamate and so on. Steam and take. This product can tonify the kidney and strengthen yang, and is suitable for impotence and sexual frigidity caused by kidney yang deficiency.

6. Placenta silkworm chrysalis recipe: placenta and silkworm chrysalis equal amount, honey appropriate amount. The placenta, silkworm chrysalis drying, research into powder, each serving 5g, three times a day, served with honey water. It can strengthen the spleen and warm the kidneys, and is suitable for anorexia, emaciation, frequent eructation, red tongue with little moss, shortness of breath and weakness caused by gastric ptosis.