🌿 Folk Prescriptions

Hai Shen (sea cucumber) has benefits including strengthening yang, nourishing qi, moistening intestines, relieving constipation, stopping bleeding, and reducing inflammation.
Regular consumption helps improve symptoms caused by kidney deficiency such as nocturnal emission, erectile dysfunction, enuresis, and reduced sexual function. Common medicinal preparations include "Sea Cucumber Rice Porridge," "Sea Cucumber Chicken Soup," "Sea Cucumber Pork Ear," and "Sea Cucumber Braised Old Duck."
Method for preparing "Sea Cucumber Chicken Soup": Sea cucumber, chicken broth, cilantro, and seasonings in appropriate amounts. Soak sea cucumber until soft, wash, slice, stir-fry briefly in a pan, then add chicken broth and seasonings, simmer gently until cooked, finally add cilantro.
Eel can tonify deficiencies and strengthen yang, dispel wind-dampness, strengthen tendons and bones, and regulate blood sugar.
It effectively treats conditions such as reduced sexual function, diabetes, fatigue-induced impotence, rheumatic pain, and weak tendons and bones.
Sea snake can tonify kidneys and strengthen yang, treat kidney deficiency-related erectile dysfunction, and also has effects of dispelling wind, unblocking meridians, promoting blood circulation, and nourishing skin.
Seaweed – seaweed products have the highest iodine content among all foods.
Iodine deficiency can cause defects or malformations in the nervous system, auditory organs, and thyroid gland, and may lead to miscarriage, reduced sexual function, and lowered libido. Therefore, regular intake of seaweed products such as kelp and wakame is recommended.
Tuna contains large amounts of myoglobin and cytochrome, types of pigment proteins.
Its fatty acids are mostly unsaturated, helping lower blood pressure and cholesterol, and preventing cardiovascular diseases. Additionally, tuna can tonify deficiencies, strengthen yang, dispel wind-dampness, strengthen tendons and bones, and regulate blood sugar. It is effective in preventing and treating reduced sexual function, diabetes, fatigue-induced impotence, rheumatic pain, and weak tendons and bones.
Prawns have functions of strengthening kidneys and enhancing yang, especially freshwater live prawns, whose yang-strengthening and essence-nourishing effects are strongest.
Methods of preparing and consuming prawns: ① 50 grams fresh prawn meat, boiled alone or with bamboo shoots, consume daily for over a week; ② Braise prawns in oil, eat 2 per serving, regular consumption yields results; ③ Stir-fry 120 grams raw prawns with 250 grams leeks, divide and consume at breakfast and dinner.
Whitebait has functions of strengthening yang, enriching essence, and nourishing the five zang organs. It helps treat conditions such as qi and blood deficiency, poor appetite, fatigue, dry skin, goiter, and erectile dysfunction.