1. Foods that are incompatible with each other

Eel should not be stewed or eaten with dog meat, dog blood, pumpkin, spinach, and red dates.

2. Don’t eat dead eels

It is better to kill and cook eels for soup. The eels contain more histidine and are very delicious. Histidine will be converted into toxic substances, so the eels must be alive.

3. Special groups of people should not eat it

Eels are irritable and should not be eaten by those with itchy skin diseases; those with chronic diseases, such as bronchial asthma, lymphatic tuberculosis, cancer, and erythema People with sexual lupus, etc. should eat it with caution; in addition, those whose diseases are caused by deficient heat, or who have just recovered from heat syndrome, dysentery, or abdominal distension should not eat it.

Extended information

Therapeutic effects

Eel is warm in nature and sweet in taste. It enters the liver, spleen and kidney meridians and has the functions of tonifying the middle and replenishing qi, nourishing blood and solidifying detoxification. , warming yang and benefiting the spleen, strengthening essence and stopping bleeding, nourishing the liver and kidneys, dispelling wind and unblocking collaterals, etc.

Eel is a warming and strengthening agent, suitable for internal hemorrhoid bleeding, prolapse of the anus due to qi deficiency, postpartum emaciation, women's labor injuries, uterine prolapse, kidney deficiency and low back pain, weakness of limbs, rheumatic paralysis, and deviation of the mouth and eyes.

Eel contains "eelin A" and "eelin B", these two substances have the effect of restoring the normal physiological function of regulating blood sugar. Therefore, it is beneficial for diabetic patients to regularly eat eel (cooking method is not limited).

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