Clams are not only delicious food, but also can be used as medicine, and it is recorded in medical books to treat diseases. What are the medicinal values of clams?
Clams have a salty and cold taste, which has the effect of nourishing yin and moisturizing, diuresis and swelling, and soft and firm loose knots. It is recorded in the "Materia Medica" that "clams are moisturizing and nourishing, so they can moisturize the five internal organs, quench thirst, and appetize." Salty can enter the blood soft and firm, so the housewife blood clots and old habits are cold and hot also. "In addition to this traditional usage, a chemical extraction of clam tissue is carried out, and the extract is called clams. Animal experiments have proved that clams have inhibitory and alleviating effects on sarcoma and ascites tumors in mice.
Modern medicine believes that clam meat stewed and eaten can cure diabetes three times a day. Clam meat and leeks are often consumed to treat thirst, dry cough, upset, hand and foot fever caused by yin deficiency. Commonly eaten clams are also effective for goiter, jaundice, poor urination, bloating and other symptoms.