The benefits of duck, goose, and soft-shelled turtle: a health-promoting recipe for men that nourishes yin and tonifies the kidneys.

The following foods are neutral in nature, rich in nutrients, and can regulate libido, offering good sexual health benefits:

Duck Meat

1. Nutritional Components

Duck meat contains protein, fat, carbohydrates, potassium, sodium, fluorine, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B₁, and vitamin B₂.

2. Properties and Efficacy

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that duck meat is sweet and salty in taste, and slightly cold in nature. It has the effects of nourishing yin and stomach, promoting diuresis and reducing swelling. It can be used as an adjunct treatment for dizziness and headache, weakness and heat toxicity, yin deficiency edema, difficulty urinating, low-grade fever, kidney deficiency impotence, and female frigidity.

3. Examples of Sexual Health Applications

For patients with impotence caused by kidney deficiency:

Take one old duck, 50 grams of walnut kernels, and appropriate amounts of ginger, scallions, fine salt, and cooking wine.

The preparation method is as follows: Slaughter a live old duck, remove feathers, gut it, blanch it in boiling water, cut it into pieces, arrange it on a plate, add ginger, scallions, salt, and cooking wine, mix well, and steam until thoroughly cooked. Remove and let cool. Coat the duck pieces with a paste made of egg white, cornstarch, MSG, cooking wine, salt, and chopped walnuts. Deep-fry until crispy, remove, arrange on a plate, and serve hot.

4. Examples of the combined application of food and sexual health

Duck meat has high nutritional value and a delicious flavor, making it a common dish on family tables.

Duck meat can be stir-fried, boiled, or braised, and can be used to make many flavorful dishes.

Peking duck and braised duck from Beijing, whole roasted duck from Shanxi, eight-treasure duck from Shanghai, tea-braised duck from Fujian, stir-fried duck with blood from Jiangxi, Foshan Zhuhou duck from Guangdong, Xiji duck from Hainan, camphor tea-smoked duck from Sichuan, canned duck from Guizhou, and roasted duck from Yunnan are all famous delicacies made with duck meat.

Meanwhile, dishes like duck stewed with Job's tears, stir-fried duck leg with onions, and spiced duck pieces are considered both culinary and medicinal.

Spiced duck pieces, in particular, are not only fragrant and delicious but also enhance the body's immune function, thereby strengthening disease resistance and regulating sexual function.

The preparation method is as follows: Take one whole duck (about 1000 grams), and appropriate amounts of five-spice powder, cooking wine, scallions, minced ginger, soy sauce, sesame oil, fine salt, sugar, and MSG. Remove the duck's feathers and internal organs, wash it clean, blanch it in boiling water, and cut it into 3 cm square pieces. Marinate it with cooking wine, fine salt, and soy sauce for 1 hour. Heat a wok, add a little cooking oil, and when the oil is hot, first add minced ginger, then add the duck pieces, stir-frying and turning. After a few minutes, add cooking wine, soy sauce, and water, bring to a boil, skim off the foam, and simmer over low heat for 1 hour. Add five-spice powder, sugar, and MSG, cook for a few more minutes, remove from heat, and plate. Serve as a side dish.

5. Precautions for Application

(1) Duck meat should not be eaten with wood ear fungus, walnuts, fermented black beans, turtle meat, or tortoise meat.

(2) Those with spleen and stomach yang deficiency, diarrhea, or early stages of external pathogenic factors should not eat it. (3) Those with suppurative ulcers should not consume this product.

Appendix: Duck Eggs

Duck eggs contain calcium, phosphorus, iron, magnesium, potassium, sodium, chlorine, vitamins, protein, fat, and carbohydrates. Duck eggs are sweet and cool in nature, and have the effects of nourishing yin and reducing fire, clearing heat and resolving phlegm. They can be used for cough due to lung yin deficiency, dry throat with little phlegm, and regulating hypersexuality.

For those with yin deficiency and night sweats accompanied by hypersexuality and premature ejaculation, one boiled duck egg can be eaten daily, or one duck egg can be decocted with 20 grams of Ophiopogon japonicus and taken orally.

Duck eggs should not be eaten with turtle meat.

Goose Meat

1. Nutritional Components

Goose meat contains a large amount of protein, vitamins, and minerals.

2. Properties and Efficacy

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that goose meat is sweet and neutral in nature, entering the lung and kidney meridians, and has the effects of nourishing yin and tonifying the kidneys, invigorating qi and stomach, and promoting body fluids and quenching thirst. It can be used to treat deficiency of Qi, emaciation, fatigue, irregular menstruation, impotence, and premature ejaculation.

3. Examples of Sexual Health Applications

For kidney deficiency, male impotence, and premature ejaculation:

Take one white goose, 10 grams of Cordyceps sinensis, and appropriate amounts of salt, ginger slices, scallion segments, and cooking wine. Kill the goose, remove feathers and internal organs, wash it clean, blanch it briefly in boiling water, drain and set aside. Cut the goose meat into 5 cm square pieces. Wash the Cordyceps sinensis and set aside. Place the goose meat in a casserole dish, along with the Cordyceps sinensis, ginger slices, scallion segments, salt, and cooking wine. Cover the pot, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer over low heat for 2 hours. Drink the soup and eat the meat; it can be served as a side dish.

4. Examples of Combining Food and Sexual Health Applications

Goose meat is tender, highly nutritious, and easily absorbed, making it a popular everyday dish. Suzhou's braised goose, Ningbo's roast goose, and Chaozhou's roast goose are all famous local delicacies, beloved by many diners.

Braised goose and braised goose in soy sauce are considered valuable health-promoting dishes.

Braised goose has a beautiful color and delicious flavor, making it suitable for people who are weak or deficient in qi and blood. It also has a supplementary therapeutic effect on irregular menstruation, indigestion, impotence, premature ejaculation, and decreased libido.

The preparation method is as follows: Take one white-feathered goose, and appropriate amounts of peanut oil, soy sauce, fine salt, brown sugar, cooking wine, minced garlic, scallion whites, cornstarch, and MSG. Slaughter the goose, remove feathers and internal organs, wash thoroughly, blanch in boiling water, then place in cold water with cooking wine and ginger, simmer until cooked, and remove. Cut the goose meat into 2 cm square pieces, fry in hot peanut oil until slightly golden, and remove. Heat oil in a wok, add scallion whites, ginger shreds, and minced garlic, stir-fry until fragrant, add the fried goose meat pieces, stir-fry, add a thin paste made of brown sugar, MSG, soy sauce, fine salt, and cornstarch, thicken with cornstarch, and serve as a side dish.

5. Precautions for use

(1) Although goose meat is delicious, it should not be consumed in excess, as it is difficult to digest.

(2) Those with internal heat should avoid eating goose meat and goose blood.

Soft-shelled Turtle

1. Nutritional Components

Soft-shelled turtle contains animal collagen, keratin, protein, fat, vitamin A, vitamin B₁, vitamin B₂, nicotinic acid, vitamin D, iodine, iron, calcium, phosphorus, etc.

2. Properties and Efficacy

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that soft-shelled turtle meat is salty and sweet in taste, and neutral in nature. It has the effects of nourishing yin and cooling blood, replenishing qi and tonifying deficiency. It can be used as an adjunct treatment for various yin deficiency disorders, rectal prolapse and genital sores, and to regulate sexual function.

3. Examples of Sexual Health Applications

For patients with premature ejaculation and spermatorrhea caused by yin deficiency and yang excess:

Take 150 grams of soft-shelled turtle meat and 100 grams of star fruit root; wash and slice the soft-shelled turtle meat, rinse the star fruit root with clean water and cut it into small pieces; put the soft-shelled turtle meat slices and star fruit root pieces into a casserole, add an appropriate amount of water and simmer until cooked, discard the dregs, add clear oil and fine salt to taste. Once daily for 5 consecutive days.

4. Examples of Combining Food and Sexual Health

Soft-shelled turtle is highly nutritious and has significant medicinal value, and it tastes exceptionally delicious.

Steamed soft-shelled turtle meat is tender and flavorful, and it is believed to nourish the kidneys and replenish essence. It can be used as an adjunct treatment for dizziness, tinnitus, and premature ejaculation. Regular consumption by healthy individuals can promote longevity.

The preparation method is as follows: Take one live turtle (approximately 500 grams), 50 grams of chicken breast, 250 grams of chicken leg, pork bone broth, and appropriate amounts of fine salt, cooking wine, MSG, pepper, ginger slices, and scallion segments. Kill the turtle, blanch it in boiling water for 1 minute, remove the head and internal organs, and wash it clean. Blanch the chicken leg in boiling water for 1 minute. Place the turtle and chicken leg in a large bowl, add cooking wine, fine salt, ginger slices, scallion segments, and pork bone broth, and steam for 2 hours. Mince the chicken breast, add it to the pork bone broth, and cook until done. When cooked, add pepper, MSG, and fine salt. Pour the chicken broth into the bowl containing the steamed turtle.

5. Precautions for Use

Those with external pathogenic heat, spleen and stomach yang deficiency, or internal cold and dampness should avoid eating turtle.