Male health benefits of ingredients such as abalone and river shrimp

Abalone

1. Nutritional Components

Abalone contains protein, fat, abalonein I, abalonein II, iodine, sodium, calcium, phosphorus, and more than 20 amino acids.

2. Properties and Efficacy

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that abalone is sweet and salty in taste, and warm in nature. It is beneficial for improving eyesight, nourishing blood and softening the liver, and promoting blood circulation. It can be used to treat amenorrhea due to blood deficiency, insufficient lactation, impotence, premature ejaculation, tuberculosis, and other consumptive diseases.

3. Examples of Sexual Health Applications

For impotence, premature ejaculation, and female frigidity:

Abalone can be cooked with shiitake mushrooms.

4. Examples of Combining Culinary Delight with Sexual Health Applications

Abalone is a delicacy among seafood. Not only do ordinary people love to eat it, but emperors, empresses, and monks in temples also greatly enjoy it. For example, "Frog Abalone" is a famous dish in the Imperial Cuisine; "Buddha Jumps Over the Wall" is the premier traditional dish in Fujian. Another dish that can be easily made at home is "Braised Abalone," which also uses abalone as the main ingredient. This dish is not only delicious and simple to prepare, but it can also enhance physical fitness and serve as a health food for patients with frigidity, stomach cancer, breast cancer, and uterine cancer.

Preparation: Take 500g of rehydrated abalone, 25g of winter bamboo shoots, 15g of rehydrated shiitake mushrooms, and appropriate amounts of soy sauce, cooking wine, sugar, clear broth, cornstarch, shredded ginger, scallions, sesame oil, and MSG. Clean the abalone, make diagonal cuts on both sides of the fish, and cut into 1cm wide strips. Blanch in boiling water for 1 minute, remove, and drain. Slice the shiitake mushrooms and winter bamboo shoots.

Heat a wok, add clear broth, winter bamboo shoots, shiitake mushrooms, shredded ginger, scallions, cooking wine, salt, soy sauce, and sugar. Simmer briefly, then add the abalone strips. Bring to a boil, then immediately reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes. Skim off any foam, thicken with cornstarch slurry, drizzle with sesame oil, add a small amount of MSG, and serve.

5. Application Precautions

(1) When consuming abalone, it must first be soaked in hot water at around 60℃ for 4-5 hours, then the water changed, and finally simmered until soft before adding seasonings for cooking.

(2) If for medicinal use, it should also be cooked with other medicines after soaking and softening.

River Shrimp

1. Nutritional Components

River shrimp contains phosphorus, calcium, iron, vitamin A, vitamin B₁, niacin, high-quality protein, and fat.

2. Properties and Efficacy

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that river shrimp is sweet and warm in nature, and has the effects of tonifying the kidneys and strengthening yang, replenishing qi and promoting lactation. It can be used as an adjunct treatment for impotence, premature ejaculation, and spermatorrhea.

3. Examples of Sexual Health Applications

For patients with kidney deficiency, impotence, premature ejaculation, and spermatorrhea:

Take 300 grams of river shrimp, wash them, add rice wine, salt, and ginger, and simmer until cooked. Regular consumption is beneficial. 4. Application Precautions

Those with Yin deficiency and excessive internal heat should not consume this product; patients with skin diseases should avoid it.

Pomegranate

1. Nutritional Components

Pomegranate contains pomegranate peel alkaloids, tannins, malic acid, citric acid, glucose, fructose, protein, fat, crude fiber, iron, calcium, phosphorus, vitamin C, etc.

2. Properties and Efficacy

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that pomegranate is sweet and sour, and warm in nature. It has the effects of promoting body fluid production and quenching thirst, astringing the intestines and stopping diarrhea, strengthening the kidneys, and consolidating. It can be used as an adjunct treatment for spleen deficiency with chronic diarrhea, indigestion, and seminal emission.

3. Examples of Sexual Health Applications

(1) Patients with frequent seminal emission due to kidney deficiency:

Eat 1-2 fresh pomegranates daily for 30 days as one course of treatment, which has a certain therapeutic effect; Dry the pomegranate peel, grind it into powder, and take 5 grams twice a day, once in the morning and once before bedtime, with rice water or warm water. (2) For women with heavy menstrual bleeding and low libido:

Take 100 grams of pomegranate peel, decoct it in water, add an appropriate amount of honey, and take it orally. One dose per day. One course of treatment is 15 days.

4. Precautions for use

(1) Pomegranate is warm and astringent in nature, so it should be avoided by those with initial diarrhea or those with excess heat and pathogenic factors.

(2) Even ordinary people should not overeat pomegranate, otherwise it may damage lung qi, injure teeth, and produce phlegm.

Cherry

1. Nutritional components

Cherry is rich in iron, carotene, vitamin B₁, vitamin B₂, vitamin C, citric acid, tartaric acid, protein, nicotinic acid, lipids, crude fiber, fructose, sucrose, glucose, calcium, phosphorus, etc.

2. Properties and effects

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cherry is sweet and sour, warm in nature, and has the effects of nourishing the liver and kidneys, astringing essence and stopping diarrhea, benefiting the spleen and stomach, and dispelling wind and dampness. It can be used as an adjunct treatment for physical weakness, seminal emission, lower back pain, numbness in the limbs, and rheumatic pain.

3. Examples of Sexual Health Applications

Young and middle-aged men and women with frigidity accompanied by emaciation, fatigue, and anemia can consume 200-300 grams of cherries before lunch and dinner.

4. Precautions for Use

(1) Cherries are warm in nature and astringent; excessive consumption can easily lead to internal heat. Those with heat-related illnesses, such as dry throat and thirst, nosebleeds, mouth ulcers, hot cough, and fever, should not consume cherries.

(2) Diabetic patients should consume cherries with caution.