🌿 Folk Prescriptions

◆ Carp: Beneficial for strengthening qi, improving spleen function, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling, clearing heat and detoxifying, and unblocking meridians and stimulating lactation. Patients with ascites benefit from eating fresh carp with red adzuki beans boiled into soup. Fresh carp stewed with pig trotters, consuming both the soup and meat, helps treat insufficient milk production in postpartum women. Carp oil supports cardiovascular function, reduces blood viscosity, and promotes circulation.
◆ Crucian Carp: Has functions of strengthening the spleen and appetite, diuresis and reducing edema, relieving cough and asthma, stabilizing pregnancy and promoting lactation, and clearing heat and detoxifying. Cooking crucian carp with winter melon and scallions treats kidney-related edema. Roast a large crucian carp, keeping the scales, removing intestines and offal, divide and consume, treats jaundice. Boiling live crucian carp with pig trotters helps treat insufficient milk in pregnant women. Cooking crucian carp with a small amount of Fritillaria powder treats cough and asthma.
◆ White Amur Carp: Warms the middle energizer, boosts qi, warms the stomach, and moisturizes the skin—ideal for warming and tonifying the body.
◆ Black Carp: Nourishes qi, strengthens the stomach, removes dampness and promotes urination, dispels wind and relieves irritability. Its zinc and selenium content may help prevent cancer.
◆ Wels Catfish: Tonifies the spleen and promotes diuresis, removes stasis and generates new blood, clears heat and dispels wind, nourishes the liver and kidneys. Eating wels catfish with ginger and red dates assists in treating tuberculosis. Boiling wels catfish with brown sugar treats nephritis. Postpartum women eating steamed wels catfish can promote lactation and replenish blood.
◆ Cuttlefish: Nourishes the liver and kidneys, replenishes blood and qi, clears stomach heat. A health food for women, it helps nourish blood, improve vision, regulate menstruation, stabilize pregnancy, facilitate childbirth, stop bleeding, and promote lactation.
◆ Grass Carp: Warms the stomach, harmonizes the middle energizer, calms the liver, and dispels wind—ideal for warming and tonifying deficiencies.
◆ Mackerel: Warms the stomach, supplements deficiency, beautifies the skin, dispels wind, kills parasites, and nourishes the five viscera. Can be used as auxiliary treatment for chronic hepatitis and persistent hepatitis. Hepatitis patients can eat the upper layer of oil from steamed fresh mackerel, long-term consumption improves symptoms.
◆ Eel: Strengthens qi and nourishes blood, relaxes tendons and benefits bones.
◆ Yellow Croaker: Enters the liver, spleen, and kidney meridians, tonifies deficiency, expels wind-dampness, strengthens tendons and bones, and helps regulate blood sugar. Those with qi and blood deficiency can cook yellow croaker strips with Huangqi (wrapped in gauze), boil until tender, season and consume. Children with malnutrition and poor appetite can eat one yellow croaker, cut into segments, with a little chicken gizzard, boiled until cooked. For rectal bleeding and uterine prolapse, regular consumption of boiled yellow croaker proves effective.
◆ Loach: Tonifies the middle energizer, strengthens qi, removes dampness, quenches thirst, relieves alcohol intoxication, detoxifies, eliminates hemorrhoids, reduces swelling, and protects the liver. Boiling loach with garlic over high heat treats edema due to malnutrition. Frying loach until charred, then boiling with water, treats childhood night sweats. Boiling loach with tofu treats jaundice caused by damp-heat. Boiling loach with shrimp roe treats impotence.