2. Prevent cardiovascular diseases. Many elderly friends often have many cardiovascular diseases. In order to alleviate this symptom, middle-aged and elderly people need to eat more sea cucumbers, which is of great help to alleviate the three highs.
3. Improve human immunity. When the human body is troubled by some malignant tumors and other diseases, many people will eat sea cucumber to inhibit the growth of tumors. Diseases that are not easy to catch a cold after taking sea cucumber for a long time are still conducive to inhibiting tumors in clinic.
4. Sea cucumbers belong to invertebrates, echinoderms and sea cucumbers. There are more than 900 species in the world, and about 140 species in China. Among them, the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific Ocean are the regions with the largest variety and resources of sea cucumbers in the world. Sea cucumbers in China are distributed in temperate zone and tropical zone. The temperate zone is mainly located in Bo Huang sea area, and the main economic species is Stichopus japonicus, which is also the most famous sea cucumber species in China. The tropics are mainly in the coastal areas of Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan, and the main economic variety is Japanese ginseng. Xisha Islands, Nansha Islands and Hainan Island are the main producing areas of tropical sea cucumbers in China.
5. Sea cucumber is the "eight treasures" among all kinds of delicious food, and it also has a variety of nourishing and health-keeping functions designated by Chinese medicine. Over the past half century, scholars at home and abroad have studied more than 40 chemical constituents of sea cucumber. The research shows that sea cucumber is not only rich in more than 50 nutrients needed by human body, such as amino acids, vitamins and chemical elements, but also contains many bioactive substances, such as acidic mucopolysaccharides, saponins and collagen, etc. The pharmacological activities of sea cucumber active substances are very extensive.