🌿 Folk Prescriptions

The ocean is rich in resources, including many nourishing items suitable for men, such as fish, shrimp, and oysters, which can all serve as tonics. However, note that oysters contain high levels of cholesterol; those with hypertension should use caution.
Sea Cucumber Congee
Ingredients: Appropriate amount of sea cucumber, 100 grams of glutinous rice or regular rice.
Preparation: Soak the sea cucumber thoroughly, clean it properly, slice it, cook until soft, then combine with rice to make congee.
Function: Tonifies the kidneys, enriches essence, nourishes blood. Effective for conditions like deficiency of essence and blood, physical weakness, reduced sexual function, seminal emission, and frequent urination due to kidney deficiency.
Brain-Boosting Stewed Gelatin
Ingredients: 10 grams of Epimedium, 19 grams of Morinda root, 10 grams of wolfberry, 75 grams of fish maw, 2 slices of ginger, 2 red dates (pitted), a little fine salt.
Preparation: Soak the fish maw in water until fully expanded, cut into pieces. Clean the epimedium, morinda root, wolfberry, ginger, and red dates with water, place them together with the fish maw into a steaming bowl, add sufficient water, cover the bowl, place it in a pot, steam over low heat for five hours. Remove, add fine salt for seasoning.
Function: Treats kidney deficiency, soreness and weakness in waist and knees, fatigue in legs, frequent urination or clear urine, post-micturition dribbling, seminal emission, premature ejaculation.
Fried Oyster Pancakes
Ingredients: 500 grams fresh oyster meat, 80 grams bean flour, 1 egg, 15 grams green scallion, 100 grams cooking oil, appropriate salt, soy sauce, and white pepper powder.
Preparation:
(1) Mix bean flour with water to form a paste, add salt and chopped scallion, pour over oyster meat, stir well.
(2) Heat lard in a flat pan, spread the oyster paste evenly on the bottom, crack one egg on top, distribute evenly. Once the lower layer is crispy, flip over, add a little lard, fry both sides until golden, then add soy sauce and white pepper powder before serving.
Function: Strengthens Yang and nourishes the kidneys.
Sea Cucumber Pigeon Egg Soup
Ingredients: 20 grams of Cistanche, 150 grams of sea cucumber, 4 red dates (pitted), 12 pigeon eggs, a little fine salt.
Preparation:
(1) Soak sea cucumber in water until fully hydrated, remove internal organs and inner membrane, wash clean and set aside.
(2) Boil pigeon eggs in water, remove after cooking, immerse briefly in cold water, peel off shells, set aside.
(3) Wash Cistanche, cut into slices.
(4) Wash 4 red dates, remove pits, set aside.
(5) Place all ingredients into a clay pot, add sufficient water, simmer over medium heat for three hours, add a little fine salt for seasoning.
Function: Effective for deficiency of essence and blood, chronic fatigue, impotence, seminal emission, etc.
Oyster Meat Braised Leeks
[Strengthening Kidney and Yang by Eating Leeks]
Ingredients: 30 grams of dried oyster meat (can be substituted with clam meat), 60 grams of leeks, a little salt.
Preparation:
(1) Soak dried oyster meat in warm water until fully expanded, wash leeks and cut into sections.
(2) Place leeks and oyster meat in a pot, add sufficient water, simmer over fire until cooked, season and serve.
Effect: Nourishes Yin and strengthens Yang.