◆ Carp: Has functions in tonifying Qi, strengthening the spleen, promoting urination, reducing swelling, clearing heat, detoxifying, and promoting circulation. Patients with ascites benefit from eating fresh carp with red adzuki beans boiled together. Eating live carp with pig trotters stewed together, including the broth, helps increase lactation in postpartum women. Carp oil supports cardiovascular function, reduces blood viscosity, and promotes blood circulation.
◆ Crucian Carp: Has functions in strengthening the spleen and appetite, promoting urination and reducing swelling, stopping cough and relieving asthma, stabilizing pregnancy, promoting lactation, and clearing heat and detoxifying. Cooking crucian carp with winter melon and green onions helps treat kidney-related edema. Roasting a large crucian carp with scales and intestines removed, divided and eaten, helps treat jaundice. Eating live crucian carp and pig trotters stewed together helps treat insufficient milk in pregnant women. Cooking crucian carp with a little powdered Fritillary bulb helps treat cough and shortness of breath.
◆ Silver Carp: Has warming and tonifying effects, strengthens the stomach, moisturizes the skin, and is considered a warming tonic for health.
◆ Black Carp: Has functions in tonifying Qi, strengthening the stomach, removing dampness, promoting urination, dispelling wind, and relieving irritability. Contains trace elements like zinc and selenium, which help prevent cancer.
◆ Snakehead Fish: Has functions in tonifying the spleen and promoting diuresis, removing blood stasis and generating new blood, clearing heat, dispelling wind, and tonifying the liver and kidneys. Eating snakehead fish with ginger and red dates helps support treatment for tuberculosis. Cooking snakehead fish with rock sugar helps treat nephritis. Postpartum women who eat steamed snakehead fish can promote lactation and replenish blood.
◆ Cuttlefish: Has functions in nourishing the liver and kidneys, replenishing blood and Qi, clearing stomach heat, and is beneficial for women. It has effects on nourishing blood, improving vision, regulating menstruation, stabilizing pregnancy, aiding childbirth, stopping bleeding, and promoting lactation.
◆ Grass Carp: Has functions in warming the stomach, harmonizing the middle energizer, calming the liver, and dispelling wind. It is considered a warming tonic for health.
◆ Ribbonfish: Has functions in warming the stomach, tonifying deficiency, beautifying the skin, dispelling wind, killing parasites, and nourishing the five organs. It can be used as an auxiliary treatment for chronic hepatitis and persistent hepatitis. Hepatitis patients can eat the upper layer of oil from steamed fresh ribbonfish, and long-term consumption can improve symptoms.
◆ Eel: Has functions in tonifying Qi and blood, relaxing tendons, and strengthening bones.
◆ Eel: Enters the liver, spleen, and kidney meridians, has functions in tonifying deficiency, expelling wind-dampness, strengthening tendons and bones, and regulating blood sugar. Those with Qi and blood deficiency can eat eel strips with Huangqi (wrapped in gauze), boiled and seasoned. Children with malnutrition and poor appetite can eat one eel cut into pieces with a little chicken gizzard. Internal hemorrhoids and uterine prolapse can be treated by eating boiled eel, long-term use is effective.
◆ Loach: Has functions in tonifying the middle energizer, removing dampness, quenching thirst, sobering up, detoxifying, treating hemorrhoids, and protecting the liver. Cooking loach with garlic over high heat helps treat edema due to malnutrition. Frying loach until charred and boiling with water helps treat night sweats in children. Cooking loach with tofu helps treat jaundice due to damp-heat. Cooking loach with shrimp roe helps treat impotence.
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