Chinese medicine oyster on the tip of the tongue

Oyster, commonly known as oyster and oyster. Every winter and spring is the harvest season of oysters, and there is also a saying in China that "the winter solstice is bright, and the oyster meat is plump and crystal clear". Oyster meat is fat, smooth and delicious, rich in nutrition, and is known as "undersea milk". High in protein and low in fat, it contains a variety of amino acids and vitamins, and it is also one of the natural foods with the largest zinc content, which has a certain effect on reducing blood lipid and cholesterol, improving children's intelligence and male sperm quality. Therefore, oysters are naturally loved by men, women and children.

? Speaking of oysters, many people began to drool. But you know what? In addition to delicious meat, the shell of oyster is also a very commonly used medicinal material.

? Oyster: Irregular fragments, white and hard, layered in section, slightly flatulent and slightly salty in taste. Slightly cold, entering the liver, gallbladder and kidney meridians. It has the effects of calming the heart, calming the nerves, suppressing yang and nourishing yin, softening and resolving hard mass. Clinically, it is often used for palpitation and insomnia's disease, dizziness, tinnitus, sputum nuclear addiction, abdominal mass, etc.

Calcined Oyster: Irregular fragments or coarse powder, grayish white, brittle and layered in cross section. Its main functions are convergence, strong acid resistance and pain relief. Commonly used for spontaneous sweating, night sweats, nocturnal emission, metrorrhagia, leukorrhagia, stomachache and acid swallowing.

Here are two oyster recipes.

Oyster and pig bone soup

Practice: oyster meat 120g (or 50g oyster sauce), pork spine 1 kg, and 4 red dates with stones removed. After cleaning, put all the materials into the pot, add appropriate amount of water, boil with strong fire, slow fire 1 hour, and season with salt before eating.

Efficacy: nourishing yin and blood, calming the liver and reducing fire. Suitable for chronic blood deficiency, dizziness, eye swelling and tinnitus.

Roasted oyster and pork tripe soup

Practice: 30g of calcined oyster, 30g of Atractylodes macrocephala, 0/5g of yam/kloc, and one pork belly. Baked oysters and Atractylodes macrocephala are put into a soup bag, boiled with yam and pork belly, seasoned with salt after cooking, and served with soup.

? Efficacy: invigorating spleen, tonifying deficiency and astringent essence. It is suitable for patients with spleen deficiency, anorexia or nocturnal emission and premature ejaculation.

Precautions: patients with acute and chronic skin diseases should not eat oysters, and those with spleen and stomach deficiency and chronic diarrhea should not eat more. Oysters have astringent taste when used as medicine, and it is not suitable for those with damp-heat evil. It should not be taken for a long time, otherwise it will easily cause constipation and indigestion.