Freshwater shrimp is warm, sweet and slightly warm, and enters the liver and kidney meridians. Shrimp meat has the effects of tonifying kidney and strengthening yang, promoting lactation and resisting toxicity, nourishing blood and solidifying essence, removing blood stasis and detoxifying, benefiting qi and nourishing yang, dredging collaterals and relieving pain, stimulating appetite and resolving phlegm. Suitable for patients with impotence due to kidney deficiency, nocturnal emission, premature ejaculation, galactorrhea, muscle pain, hand and foot twitching, itching all over, skin ulcer, weakness and neurasthenia.
Although the nutritional value of shrimp is very high, most of the shrimps sold in the market are frozen shrimps, so it must be noted that the surface of the outer ice coat of frozen shrimps should be clean and free from dissolution. Good shrimp meat should be clean and complete, light blue or milky white, and have no odor; Inferior shrimp has untidy body, soft tissue, red color and sour smell.
Fresh and high-quality frozen shrimps should be colorless and transparent, feel full and elastic. Pay attention when buying. If protein in frozen shrimps has been oxidized and blackened in the air, don't buy it.