Eating Fish According to Symptoms: Medicinal and Nutritive Benefits
Fish meat contains vitamin D, calcium, phosphorus, which effectively prevent osteoporosis. Its fatty acids have been proven to lower blood sugar, protect the heart, and prevent cancer.
Carp
Has a sweet taste and warm nature. Benefits include promoting diuresis and reducing swelling, tonifying qi and strengthening the spleen, unblocking meridians and promoting lactation, clearing heat, and detoxifying. Used to treat edema, ascites, insufficient milk production in postpartum women, gastric ptosis, rectal prolapse, etc.
Spanish Mackerel
Can tonify the five zang organs, dispel wind, and kill parasites. Particularly suitable for those with weak spleen and stomach, poor digestion, and dry skin. Can serve as an auxiliary therapy for chronic hepatitis and persistent hepatitis.
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Black Carp
Has benefits in removing blood stasis and generating new blood, clearing heat, dispelling wind, strengthening the spleen, and promoting diuresis. It can treat liver and kidney deficiency, edema, foot swelling, eczema, etc. Especially beneficial for women with weak constitution, irregular menstruation, and recovery after surgery.
Common Carp
Has a sweet taste and warm nature. Offers benefits such as promoting diuresis and reducing swelling, tonifying qi and strengthening the spleen, unblocking meridians and promoting lactation. Used to treat edema, blocked milk ducts, and fetal growth restriction.
Grass Carp
Has a sweet taste and warm nature. Benefits include calming the liver, dispelling wind, activating blood flow, and interrupting malaria. With thick, loose flesh, it treats fatigue and wind-induced headaches; eating the head steamed is especially effective.
Loach
Has a sweet taste and neutral nature. Benefits include warming the center, tonifying qi, clearing dampness, promoting urination, detoxifying, and treating hemorrhoids. Its tender meat is highly nutritious, and its slimy secretion has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties. Used to treat damp-heat jaundice, difficulty in urination, night sweats after illness, etc.
Turtle
Has a sweet taste and neutral nature; the entire animal is medicinal. Can nourish yin, subdue yang, dissipate masses, and resolve nodules. Turtle gelatin also has blood-nourishing, fever-reducing, and blood stasis-dispersing effects. Turtle blood nourishes yin and clears heat, suitable for tuberculosis patients. Burned turtle head ash can treat various childhood illnesses, seminal or anal prolapse.