The benefits of walnuts, chives, and cilantro: A dietary guide for men's health, promoting virility and sperm production.

Scallions

1. Nutritional Components

Scallions contain allicin, diallyl sulfide, carotene, crude fiber, carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin B₁, vitamin B₂, vitamin C, nicotinic acid, etc.

2. Properties and Efficacy

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that scallions are pungent and warm in nature, and have the effects of promoting yang and opening the orifices, dispelling wind and activating collaterals, detoxifying and reducing swelling, and clearing the lungs and strengthening the spleen. They can be used to treat wind-cold-dampness syndrome, loss of appetite, wind-cold colds, nausea and vomiting, etc.

3. Examples of Sexual Health Applications

Those with low libido can often eat scallion and egg soup.

4. Precautions for Application

(1) Scallions are pungent and warm, and have a diaphoretic effect. Therefore, those with superficial deficiency, excessive juiciness, yin deficiency and heat should eat them with caution.

(2) During the first and second months of the lunar calendar, when spring returns, eating some scallions is not only delicious but also very beneficial to the body. In southern my country, there is a saying: "Onions in the first month of the lunar calendar are very nourishing."

(3) Eating raw onions can sometimes leave an unpleasant odor in the mouth. In this case, rinsing the mouth with strong tea or chewing a few tea leaves can remove the odor.

Garlic

1. Nutritional Components

Garlic contains allicin, germanium, protein, fat, carbohydrates, crude fiber, iron, phosphorus, calcium, vitamin B₁, vitamin B₂, vitamin C, nicotinic acid, etc.

2. Properties and Effects

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that garlic is pungent and warm in nature, possessing the effects of warming the middle jiao (digestive system), promoting digestion, antibacterial and detoxifying, killing parasites, and removing blood stasis and dampness. It can be used to treat carbuncles, edema, indigestion, and decreased libido.

3. Examples of Sexual Health Applications

(1) For men suffering from nocturnal emission and impotence:

Take several cloves of raw garlic, wash them, and chew them after dinner each day. Then chew several tea leaves. Continue for 30 days.

(2) For men with low libido:

Take an appropriate amount of garlic, wash it, peel it, dry it, put it in a bottle, add vinegar until the garlic cloves are submerged, add appropriate amounts of white sugar and white wine, seal the bottle, and open it after 1-2 months. Take 1-2 cloves each time, twice a day, for 15 days as one course of treatment.

4. Precautions for Application

(1) Garlic is pungent and warm in nature. Long-term consumption can damage the liver and eyes. Those with yin deficiency and excessive fire, as well as those with diseases of the eyes, mouth, teeth, throat, and tongue, should avoid eating it. Garlic contains a lot of pungent substances and is highly irritating. Avoid eating garlic on an empty stomach (except when necessary for treatment). Patients with gastric ulcers or duodenal bulb ulcers should also avoid eating garlic. (2) To relieve bad breath after eating garlic, drink strong tea, eat a few red dates, or chew a few tea leaves.

Mustard Greens

Also known as Snow Swallow.

1. Nutritional Components

Mustard greens contain crude fiber, vitamin C, protein, calcium, etc.

2. Properties and Effects

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that mustard greens are pungent and warm in nature, and have the effects of clearing the lungs and resolving phlegm, warming the middle and promoting qi circulation. It can be used as an adjunct treatment for colds due to wind-cold, coughs with cold phlegm, and frigidity.

3. Examples of Sexual Health Applications

Patients with weak constitutions and accompanying hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and frigidity can eat mustard greens regularly.

4. Examples of Combining Food and Sexual Health Applications

Mustard greens (Snow Swallow) are generally eaten as pickled vegetables. The pickling method is as follows: Soak and wash the mustard greens in water until clean; after drying, place them in a porcelain jar, add 50 grams of salt for every 1000 grams of mustard greens, seal the jar, and turn it over once a day. It is ready to eat after 10 days.

Pickled mustard greens have a unique flavor and can be stir-fried alone or paired with meat or chicken to make delicious dishes, such as "Mustard Greens and Milk Chicken." This dish is fragrant, tender, smooth, and delicious, rich in nutrients, and has the effects of strengthening the body and prolonging life.

5. Precautions for Application

(1) Men with excessive erectile dysfunction should consume mustard greens with caution.

(2) Avoid nitrate poisoning when eating pickled mustard greens. Sword Beans

1. Nutritional Components

Sword beans contain concanavalin A I, concanavalin A II, concanavalin A hemagglutinin, concanavalin A, urease, carotene, vitamin B₁, vitamin B₂, nicotinic acid, vitamin C, protein, fat, carbohydrates, crude fiber, calcium, phosphorus, iron, etc.

2. Properties and Efficacy

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that sword beans are sweet, warm, and non-toxic, and have the effects of tonifying the middle jiao (spleen and stomach), stopping hiccups, and replenishing essence and vital energy. They can be used as an adjunct treatment for kidney deficiency, lower back pain, qi deficiency, and decreased libido.

3. Examples of Sexual Health Applications

For patients with decreased libido and lower back pain caused by kidney deficiency:

Sword beans can be eaten regularly. There are many ways to eat sword beans; they can be cooked with chicken or pork, stir-fried as a fresh vegetable, or made into pickles, etc.

4. Application Precautions

(1) When consuming sword beans, they must be thoroughly cooked. This is very important; otherwise, it can cause poisoning from raw sword beans.

(2) Sword beans are warm in nature; those with heat-related illnesses should eat them sparingly or avoid them altogether.

(3) Raw sword beans should not be eaten.

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