Source The meat of the four-horned clam or various other clams of the clam family. Produced along the coast of China.
Composition of food 100 grams containing 10.8 grams of protein, 1.6 grams of fat, 4.6 grams of carbohydrates, calcium
37 milligrams, phosphorus 82 milligrams, 14.2 milligrams of iron, thiamine 0.03 milligrams, riboflavin 0.15
milligrams, and 1.7 milligrams of niacin.
The properties of the attributes of the meridian salty, cold. Into the stomach meridian.
Effects nourishing yin, diuretic and phlegmatic, softening firmness and dispersing knots. Used for gall tumors, hemorrhoids, edema, phlegm accumulation.
Contraindications Yang deficiency and spleen and stomach cold abdominal pain, diarrhea and leakage is contraindicated.
Qingdao's unique seafood is clams.
The Chinese name for clams is miscellaneous clams, and in the vicinity of Qingdao, it is mainly produced in Jiaozhou Bay, inhabiting the seabed of mud and sandy beaches in the intertidal zone in the middle and lower zones below the dry tidal line below the most productive. The depth of its habitat in the mud and sand is generally no more than two times the length of its own body. On the first and fifteenth days of the lunar calendar, after the fall of the tide, people go to the beach to dig this sea food to quench their thirst. Mass production is used to dig clams boat in deep water harvesting.
Clams are not only delicious, and its nutrition is also more comprehensive, is a good value for money seafood. It contains protein, fat, carbohydrates, iron, calcium, phosphorus, iodine, vitamins, amino acids and taurine and other ingredients, is a low-calorie, high-protein, can prevent and treat chronic diseases of middle-aged and elderly people the ideal food.
Clams taste salty and cold, with nourishing yin and dry, diuretic swelling, soften and disperse the role of the knot. Materia Medica Jingshu" recorded: "clams its nature moist and help fluid, so it can moisten the five viscera, quench thirst, open stomach. Salty can enter the blood soft solid, so the main women's blood clots and the old fetish for cold and heat." Now in addition to this traditional use, but also on the clam tissue chemical extraction, the extract is called clamsin. Animal experiments have proved that clams have inhibitory and palliative effects on both sarcomas and ascites tumors in mice.
Modern medicine believes that clam meat stewed and eaten three times a day can cure diabetes; clam meat and leeks often eaten, can be treated for deficiency of yin due to thirst, dry cough, heartburn, hands and feet, heart fever and other diseases. Eating clams on goiter, gangrene, dysuria, bloating and other diseases also have curative effects.