The world's freshest - clams

Clams are also known as flower clams, clams, and western tongues. Its meat is incomparably delicious, known as "the world's freshest" and "crown of hundred flavors", Jiangsu folk also have "eat clam meat, all tastes fail".

Modern scientific research has found that clams contain protein, fat, carbohydrates, iron, calcium, phosphorus, iodine, vitamins, amino acids and taurine, etc., which is an ideal food with low caloric energy, high protein and the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases in the elderly. Clam meat contains Delta 7-cholesterol and 24-methylene cholesterol, which have a serum-lowering effect, which have a unique effect of inhibiting cholesterol synthesis in the liver and accelerating the excretion of cholesterol, thereby reducing cholesterol in the body. After eating clams and shellfish foods, people often have a refreshing and pleasant feeling, which is undoubtedly beneficial for relieving some of the symptoms of annoyance.

The medicine of the motherland believes that clams taste salty and cold, and have 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 helping to nourish the liquid, 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. "The introduction of the clam diet is as follows, for reference.

Upset thirst, dry cough, hot hands and siblings clam meat 100 grams, lilies 30 grams, jade bamboo 30 grams, Huaishan 30 grams. Serve with boiled soup.

Weak, cold and cold clam meat 200 grams, Sichuan root 10 grams, carrots 150 grams, potatoes 200 grams. Fry the szechuan root in water to remove the residue, add carrots, potatoes, clam meat and cook the soup, and season with fine fish sauce, chives and monosodium glutamate.

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma mouth dry tongue clam 300 g, washed and salted slightly to remove sand. Heat soybean oil in a wok, add shredded ginger, soy sauce to an appropriate amount, sauté and then put clams, black beans 100 grams, garlic and MSG to an appropriate amount, add the right amount of water, cover the lid and cook over medium heat, add the appropriate amount of minced shallots, you can put it out and eat. It has the effect of clearing heat, detoxifying, nourishing yin and tonifying kidneys.

Cure diabetic clam meat in moderation, cooked often and eaten with curative effect.

Cure jaundice edema clam meat, cooked, often eaten.

Cure tuberculosis hot flashes clam meat, leeks (leeks are better) in an appropriate amount, stir-fried and eaten.

100 grams of clam meat for the treatment of hand and brother fever, 30 grams each of lilies, jade bamboo and Huai yam. Serve with boiled soup.

Cure chronic tracheitis clam powder 200 g, green daisy 20 g. Honey is refined into pills, 15 grams each time, once in the morning and once in the evening.

Cure cold fear of cold Sichuan root 10 grams, fry the residue, add carrots and potatoes to an appropriate amount, clam meat 200 grams with boiled soup, with salt, chives, MSG seasoning and eating.

(Text/Chen Jipei Chief Physician)

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