Male health-preserving dietary therapy recipes using mutton, beef, and pigeon meat

Lamb

1. Nutritional Components

Lamb contains protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamin B₁, vitamin B₂, nylonic acid, calcium, phosphorus, iron, sodium, etc.

2. Properties and Efficacy

Lamb is considered a tonic for strengthening yang, especially suitable for consumption during the cold winter months. It is highly beneficial for those with yang deficiency, the elderly, and those with weak constitutions to eat lamb in winter. Those with weak libido and yang deficiency should especially eat lamb regularly.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that lamb is sweet and salty in flavor, and warm in nature. It has the effects of tonifying the middle jiao (spleen and stomach), replenishing qi, calming the mind and relieving pain, and strengthening the kidneys and enhancing yang. It can be used to treat impotence, frigidity, kidney deficiency and lower back pain, postpartum abdominal pain, and weakness in the limbs.

3. Examples of Sexual Health Applications

(1) For those suffering from kidney deficiency, fatigue, lower back pain, impotence, and frigidity:
Preparation: Take 150g of mutton, wash it, slice it thinly, add 5g of dried shrimp, appropriate amounts of scallion segments, minced ginger, fine salt, and cooking wine, simmer until cooked, and eat regularly for therapeutic effect.

(2) To improve appetite and female libido:
Preparation: Take 200g of mutton, 3g of fennel, 10g of ginger, 2g of cinnamon, appropriate amounts of cooking wine, fine salt, and monosodium glutamate, simmer until tender, and take warm once a day for 5 consecutive days.

Alternatively, take 200g of mutton, 2 sparrow eggs, add salt and seasonings, simmer until cooked, and eat the meat and drink the soup. 4. Examples of Combining Food and Sexual Health

Lamb, with its delicious flavor, can be made into many tasty dishes, such as hot pot lamb, braised lamb, lamb stewed with lychee, and lamb leg for warming the kidneys.

Among them, lamb stewed with lychee is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, with a delicious flavor. It also has the effects of promoting body fluid production, soothing the stomach, replenishing qi and blood, and can be used to treat symptoms such as post-illness weakness, cold limbs, and decreased libido.

Preparation method: Take 500g of mutton, 100g of pitted lychees, and appropriate amounts of cornstarch, cooking oil, vinegar, fine salt, cooking wine, and white sugar. Wash the mutton, cut it into small square pieces, and mix it with cornstarch. Cut the fresh lychees in half. Heat a wok, add cooking oil, and when the oil reaches 60% heat, fry the mutton pieces one by one until golden brown, cooked through and crispy on the outside. Remove the mutton. Pour off the excess oil. Add water, white sugar, vinegar, fine salt, and cooking wine to the wok, bring to a boil, add the lychees and fried mutton, stir-fry evenly, thicken with cornstarch, drizzle with a little sesame oil, and serve. Serve as a side dish.

Mutton is an aphrodisiac food. Those with yang deficiency, weakness, or decreased libido should eat mutton regularly for its health benefits.

5. Precautions for application

(1) Mutton is hot in nature, therefore patients with heat syndrome should not eat it. (2) It is not advisable to eat mutton when suffering from an external cold, and widowed young and middle-aged people should eat it sparingly.

(3) Men and women with hypersexuality should also avoid eating mutton frequently.

(4) Mutton should not be eaten with plums, buckwheat, red beans, vinegar, or calamus root.

Beef

1. Nutritional Components

Beef contains various essential amino acids, protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamin B₁, vitamin B₂, nicotinic acid, calcium, iron, etc.

2. Properties and Efficacy

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that beef is sweet and salty in taste, and warm in nature. It has the effects of tonifying the spleen and stomach, replenishing qi and blood, and strengthening muscles and bones. It can be used to treat kidney deficiency and impotence, physical weakness, spontaneous sweating due to qi and blood deficiency, and dizziness due to blood deficiency.

3. Examples of Sexual Health Applications

(1) Those who are physically weak and have yang deficiency syndrome can often eat "stewed beef with wolfberries". (2) For those suffering from impotence, premature ejaculation, or frigidity, "Yam and Beef Soup" is recommended. Take 250g of beef, 20g of yam, and appropriate amounts of salt, cooking wine, and ginger. Wash and cut the beef into chunks, then boil it in water until cooked. Add the yam and cook together, seasoning as desired. Eat the meat and drink the broth.

4. Examples of Combining Food and Sexual Health

Beef is a nourishing and strengthening food for humans. It can be stir-fried, braised, stewed, used in soups, made into beef jerky, and various braised dishes, all of which are delicious and appealing.

Spicy beef with tangerine peel, fennel beef, safflower stewed beef, wolfberry stewed beef, braised beef with radish, potato stewed beef, and stir-fried beef with onions are all delicious dishes with excellent health benefits.

Wolfberry stewed beef, in particular, is sweet and delicious with a unique flavor. It can treat impotence, premature ejaculation, frigidity, and physical weakness, and is also a highly nourishing dish for children and the elderly. Preparation method: Take 500g beef, 50g butter, 30g goji berries, 100g carrots, 100g potatoes, 50g onions, a suitable amount of tender green beans, and appropriate amounts of fine salt, pepper, flour, soy sauce, and MSG. Cut the beef into 4cm cubes, add fine salt, pepper, and flour, and mix. Heat a pan, add butter, and when the oil is hot, add the beef. When the beef turns brown, add onion slices and stir-fry for 3 minutes. Add goji berries and water, bring to a boil, then simmer. Add carrots and potatoes, along with some white vinegar, and simmer for about 60 minutes. Add green beans, fine salt, and soy sauce. When the green beans are cooked, add MSG and thicken with cornstarch slurry, then remove from heat.

5. Precautions for application

(1) Beef is warm in nature and suitable for those with deficiency and cold, but not suitable for those with heat syndrome. (2) People with chronic hepatitis, systemic lupus erythematosus, etc., should not eat it.

Pigeon Meat

1. Nutritional Components

Pigeon meat contains crude protein, fat, potassium, sodium, calcium, phosphorus, carbohydrates, vitamin B₁, vitamin B₂, etc.

2. Properties and Efficacy

Pigeon meat is delicious, nutritious, and has high medicinal value.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that pigeon meat is delicious, nutritious, and has high medicinal value.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that pigeon meat is sweet and salty, neutral in nature, and non-toxic. It has the effects of nourishing the liver and kidneys, replenishing essence and blood, and strengthening the body. It can be used to treat premature ejaculation, impotence, frigidity, amenorrhea in women, weakness in the elderly, and excessive thirst.

3. Examples of Sexual Health Applications

(1) Women with frigidity can often eat summer grass and female pigeon tonic soup. Preparation method: Take one female white pigeon, 10 grams of Cordyceps sinensis, and appropriate amounts of refined salt, cooking wine, minced ginger, and monosodium glutamate. Kill the pigeon, remove feathers and internal organs, wash it clean, and simmer it with Cordyceps sinensis that has been soaked for 120 minutes over low heat. When it is almost cooked, add refined salt, cooking wine, minced ginger, and monosodium glutamate. Remove it when cooked, and drink the soup and eat the pigeon meat while it is still hot. Cordyceps sinensis is a precious Chinese medicine and can be eaten with pigeon meat.

(2) For patients with impotence, premature ejaculation, nocturnal emission, etc.: Preparation method: Take one male pigeon, kill it, leave the blood, remove feathers and internal organs, add 30 grams of Polygonatum sibiricum, 15 grams of Alpinia oxyphylla, 30 grams of Gallnut, 30 grams of Lycium barbarum, 500 ml of sweet rice wine, and appropriate amount of water. Simmer together over low heat. When cooked, eat the pigeon meat and drink the soup while it is still hot. Take once a day for 10 consecutive days. 4. Examples of Combining Food and Sexual Health

Pigeon is considered an aphrodisiac food, capable of replenishing qi and blood, and strengthening the kidneys and essence. It is suitable for consumption in winter. Pigeon meat is delicious and can be used to make many tasty dishes, such as spiced pigeon, lemon and garlic pigeon, pigeon stewed with enoki mushrooms, pigeon breast and sea cucumber, pigeon stewed with ginseng and goji berries, and lean pork and old pigeon soup. Among these, spiced pigeon, with its crispy exterior and tender interior, and delicious flavor, can be used as an adjunct treatment for frigidity, infertility, impotence, premature ejaculation, and menopausal syndrome.

Preparation method: Take 2 squabs, 20 grams of five-spice powder, appropriate amounts of sugar, salt, soy sauce, cooking wine, and scallions; heat 2 tablespoons of fine salt, add five-spice powder, and stir-fry evenly; cut the squabs open from the back, loosen the wing and leg joints with a knife, and marinate with seasonings for 60 minutes; heat oil in a wok, add the squabs, cover the wok, and simmer over low heat until cooked (stir once while cooking), chop into pieces, arrange on a plate, and sprinkle with the fine salt stir-fried with five-spice powder. Serve as a side dish.

5. Application Precautions

(1) Pigeons are aphrodisiacs and can enhance sexual desire. Therefore, people with strong sexual desire and widowed young and middle-aged men and women should not eat pigeon meat.

Appendix: Pigeon Eggs

Pigeon eggs contain protein, lecithin, cephalin, amino acids, linoleic acid, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin E, potassium, calcium, zinc, iron, etc., and have the effects of tonifying the kidneys and replenishing qi, strengthening essence and marrow, and protecting the skin and improving complexion. Those suffering from kidney deficiency, lower back pain, impotence, premature ejaculation, nocturnal emission, female frigidity, and rough skin can consume "Sea Cucumber, Goji Berry, and Pigeon Egg Stew". Take 2 sea cucumbers, 15 grams of goji berries, 10 pigeon eggs, and appropriate amounts of ginger, scallions, starch, meat broth, rice wine, MSG, fine salt, soy sauce, lard, peanut oil, and pepper. Soak the sea cucumbers in water, remove the inner membrane, blanch them briefly in meat broth, discard the broth, replace with fresh broth, and blanch the sea cucumbers again. Remove and make prismatic cuts on the cavity wall. Boil the pigeon eggs and peel them. Cut scallions into sections; heat a wok, add peanut oil, coat the pigeon eggs with cornstarch, and fry until golden brown, then remove; heat a wok again, add lard, sauté scallions and ginger until fragrant, add chicken broth and simmer briefly, then remove the scallions and ginger; add sea cucumber, Shaoxing wine, soy sauce, and pepper, and simmer over low heat for about 30 minutes; add goji berries and pigeon eggs, and simmer for another 10 minutes; remove the sea cucumber and arrange it on a plate, surround it with pigeon eggs, and thicken the remaining broth in the wok with cornstarch, then pour it over the sea cucumber and pigeon eggs.