Early spring is the time when a large number of river mussels are listed, many readers have eaten river mussels in childhood, and have also caught river mussels in some places, that kind of memory and delicious with everyone's growth, until now there are still many people will go to the vegetable market to buy this kind of water delicacy, generally about two yuan, really can be said to be inexpensive!
Generally, mussel meat is mostly used in the kitchen to make soups, but it can also be cooked with cooking methods such as boiling, stewing, stewing, and boiling. Among the home-cooked dishes in Shanghai and Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions are the "fried leek buds" with tender meat, salty and delicious; the "fried mussels with white color, crisp and tender texture, salty and delicious" spring shoots; the ruddy color, smooth and tender, salty and slightly spicy "fish fragrant mussel shreds; the soup color is light, the mussel meat is crisp and tender, and the dish heart is refreshing.
The dishes made from these mussels are not only delicious and nutritious, but also have the effect of nourishing and health care, which is a low-fat and nutritious aquatic delicacy. It was determined that each 100 grams of mussel meat contained 6.8 grams of protein, 0.6 grams of fat, 0.202 mg of vitamin A, 1 0.13 mg of vitamin B, 1.4 mg of vitamin E, 39 mg of calcium, 11.4 mg of iron, 127 mg of phosphorus, and 29.79 mg of selenium.
When many readers deal with river mussels themselves, they don't know where to eat and what places to eat, the author specially asked a senior person in the vegetable market to take a photo of this place of river mussels, it is said that this is the cheeks of river mussels, and other places basically belong to the range of eating.
Many readers will find that in order to save trouble, many people ask the merchants who sell river mussels in the vegetable market to directly cut open the river mussels to clean up, and then throw away the mussel shells directly, which will directly waste the two kinds of Chinese medicines.
Let's talk about mussel tears first, writing here the author has a little feeling that Chinese medicine is too emotional, so when the real feeling is cut open by the river mussels, the liquid that flows out is like their tears. Mussel tears are actually also aliases, such as Fang Zhushui, Living Mussel Water, Mussel Water, Mussel Water, etc., as the source of Chinese medicine is from the "Compendium of Materia Medica".
Mussel tears this flavor of Chinese medicine is generally the endosome of mussels such as brown-striped crown mussels, spinnaker mussels and dorsal horn toothless abundance. Generally, when the mussel is dissected, its secretion is collected.
Mussel tears taste sweet; cold, classified as liver and kidney meridians.
In the "Rihuazi Materia Medica", it is recorded that mussel tears can cure eye diseases, such as "taking the juice from the yellow end into the (mussel), pointing out the red eyes and (eyes) dark." ”
It is recorded in the "Benjing Fengyuan" that mussel tears can treat burns, such as "raw mussels burning water, curing soup burns." ”
In the "Compendium of Materia Medica", it is recorded that mussel tears can "clear the heat and settle the fetus, eliminate phlegm and dehumidify, and detoxify the poison of liquor and danshi." ”
In the "Quanzhou Materia Medica", it is said that mussel tears can be stewed with clear water to treat thirst-quenching disease, similar to the diabetes of Western medicine, and the original text records that "to cure thirst and drink, take mussels and stew with clear water." ”
Mussel powder, also known as clam ash, mirage ash, mussel shell powder, mussel shell ash, as a source of traditional Chinese medicine from the "Rihuazi Materia Medica", is made of mussels of the mussel family with folded crown mussels, spinnaker mussels and dorsal horn toothless mussels and other freshwater shells. Generally take the mussel shell and wash it, scrape off the black skin, mash it, grind the powder or calcined the powder.
In the "Compendium of Materia Medica", mussel powder has the effect of relieving heat, dryness and dampness, and reducing phlegm accumulation. Can stop white turbidity, belt down, dysentery, dehumidification and swelling, water cough, blindness, rub pubic sores, wet sores, prickly itch.
It is recorded in the "Medical Forest Compendium" that mussel powder can cure stubborn phlegm, stop cough, and purify the heart and protect the lungs.
Because mussel powder is a cold medicinal herb, it is not suitable for patients with a cold constitution to eat. It is clearly recorded in the "Materia Medica": "Those who are weak in the spleen and lungs and have no fire must be banned." ”
【Reference Compound】
1. Cure carbuncle red swelling with pointed heads: vinegar and crack clams ash coating, dry is easy
——Excerpt from "A Thousand Golden Fangs"
2, cure the foot finger wet rot: clam powder dried rubbing.
——Excerpt from "Shouyu Shenfang"
3. Treatment of nausea: rotten shell for powder, drink, the main nausea, phlegm drinking between the heart and chest.
——Excerpt from "Materia Medica"
4. Cure carbuncle swelling: vinegar adjustment
——Excerpt from "Nichiwako Materia Medica"
(Chinese medicine pays attention to dialectical treatment, dietary therapy and treatment, please consult a Chinese medicine practitioner!) ）