Gourmet oysters
Oysters are mollusks, marine shellfish, also known as oysters. Chinese medicine oyster refers to oyster shell. Let's start with gourmet oysters.
It is one of the most zinc-rich natural foods (up to 100mg per 100 grams of oyster meat), which means that eating only 2 to 3 oysters a day provides the zinc you need throughout the day.
As early as the Tang Dynasty, the "poetry immortal" Li Bai had a description of oysters as "heaven and earth, oysters are exclusive"; in China's folk, there are also "winter solstice to Qingming, oyster meat fat crystal" proverb.
So how do foreign countries describe oysters?
The world is my oyster
Shakespeare famously said, "The world is my oyster." It means "the heavens and the earth are in my hands." The meaning of oysters is probably in addition to the fact that this marine shellfish is both an important edible seafood and an important source of pearls, representing power and wealth, while the traditional European concept of oysters contains strong, aphrodisiac meaning, and thus has mysterious power.
When it comes to oysters, we can't help but think of a French short story "My Uncle Hule" that we learned in my middle school Chinese class. Let's revisit the synopsis: the protagonist's uncle Yule lost his family when he was young, defaced the family's reputation, went to the United States to pan for gold, and suddenly became rich and poor; in the case of the protagonist's family's livelihood is in short supply, in order to maintain false decency, he often fantasizes that one day Yule will return to his hometown and bring hope to the family; until on a rare trip, he saw the homeless uncle Hule who sold oysters to tourists; the protagonist's parents, like a great enemy, slyly try to avoid, after all, did not and did not dare to recognize their relatives.
The novel satirizes the decaying and degenerate lifestyle of high society full of copper odors through the "elegant" eating of raw oysters; it also uses the embarrassing encounter with uncle Hule to reflect the distorted reality of human nature in the middle of European capitalism after being wrapped and torn apart by money and livelihood.
Are oysters all male?
The oysters were first published in the Shennong Materia Medica and listed as the top products, without explaining the origin of the name. In the Southern Dynasty Liang Tao Hongjing's "Famous Doctors' Catalogue", it is said: "The Taoist Fang takes Zuo Gu as the male, so the name is oyster, and the right Gu is Mu (pin refers to female) oysters." Or take the pointed tip as the left side, not detailed. Tao Hongjing distinguished between oysters and oysters, but only quoted others, not sure.
The Tang Dynasty Chen Tibetan vessel is a bit interesting, and his "Materia Medica Collection" said: "All things born have mu mu. For the oyster is made of salt water, the block does not move, the way of yin and yang, how to be born, the person who says the oyster, should be the male ear. He believed that the oysters were male, but he wondered how the oysters were attached to the rocks without moving, and how did the yin and yang path intersect?
The Song Dynasty's Kou Zongyi said in the "Materia Medica": "This sutra does not say left to look at, stop from Tao. And Duan Chengshi is also cloudy, oysters are said to be mu, not xiongye. And like a peony, is there a Mu Danhu? This thing has no eyes, let alone hope? Because the Shennong Materia Medica does not distinguish between left and right, he had to take Tao Hongjing's statement, and he quoted the Tang Dynasty Duan Chengshi in the Collection of Zhiwei Primary School "Youyang Miscellaneous Tricks", throwing out the view that oysters are just like peonies, and the word "mu" does not refer to males.
However, in the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen still believed that oysters were all males, saying: "The genus of clams all have fetal eggs, and they are reproduced alone, pure males and no females, so they get the name of oysters." Oysters, words are coarse also. ”
So are oysters male or female?
In fact, in natural populations, most oyster individuals are hermaphrodites, with a small number of hermaphrodites. However, oysters have a "unique skill", that is, they can spontaneously "degenerate", and the same individual shows different sexes in different years or under different environmental conditions.
Famous party display: oysters and keels must be used
Keel and oysters can calm the nerves, calm the liver and yang, astringent and astringent, so the clinical phase must be used.
Mr. Zhang Xichun said: "The essence of the yang of the human body is the soul, and the essence of the yin is the spirit." Keel can resemblance, oysters can be strong, is the keel oyster for the soul of the spirit of the magic medicine. ”
Yue Meizhong, a famous Chinese medicine scholar in modern and modern China, said, "The keel oyster can capture the yang qi that flies over, and can absorb the yin qi of the dustpan"; the keel "takes the yang to return to the soil", and the oyster "summons the yang according to the yin".
The Qing Dynasty physician Wang Ang's "Medical Prescription Collection" has a famous formula: the Golden Lock Solid Golden Pill. This party is based on the keel oyster phase whiskers, Sasuke all of which achieves the effect of tonifying kidney astringent essence and solidifying sperm.
It seems that both the East and the West have a certain consensus on the efficacy of oyster aphrodisiacs.
Oysters (animal medicine)
01【Medicinal Source】
It is the shell of the oyster family, the Dalian Bay oyster or the Omi oyster. It is distributed along the coastal areas of China. Raw or calcined.
02【Prescription Application】
Black chicken white phoenix pills, golden lock solid essence pills, etc.
03【Sexual Taste Returns】
Flat liver latent yang, soft and firm loose knots, astringent solid astringent (calcination).
04【Function】
Nourish yin and yang, soft and firm loose knots, depyretic and steaming.
05【Performance characteristics】
This product is salty and astringent, into the liver meridian, heavy to calm the submersion, salty to soft and firm, astringent to converge, so it has the effect of flat liver latent yang, heavy town calming, soft and firm loose knots, astringent solidity.
06【Main Application】
1. It is used for irritability, palpitations and insomnia, dizziness and tinnitus caused by yin and yang hyperactivity. To cure vertigo and tinnitus caused by yin and yang hyperactivity, it is often used with keel, turtle shell, cow knee and so on.
2. For sputum nucleus, fistula, fistula accumulation. The treatment of phlegm nuclei and fistula caused by phlegm fire knots is often used together with Zhejiang shellfish and Xuan Ginseng; the treatment of fistulas caused by blood stasis and gas knots is often used with turtle nails, salvia, curcuma and so on. In modern times, it is often used to treat liver and splenomegaly.
3. For slip certificate. This product must be used with calcined keel to treat a variety of sperm loss, slippery sperm, enuresis, frequent urination, collapse leakage, belt down, self-sweating, night sweats and other slip evidence caused by positive weakness and instability.
4. Calcined oysters have acid-making effects and can be used for excessive stomach acid, gastric ulcers, etc.