The medicinal benefits of pork and chicken: A male health guide for regulating libido and tonifying the kidneys.

Foods that are neutral in nature, rich in nutrients, and can regulate libido can have good sexual health benefits.

Foods beneficial to human health contain various nutrients needed by the human body, such as protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins, iron, calcium, zinc, selenium, and iodine. These nutrients have their own physiological functions, including forming the body's physiological tissues, regulating physiological functions, supplying the body with necessary energy, and maintaining life activities. Humans rely on these foods to maintain their physiological activities (including sexual physiological activities).

In traditional Chinese medicine theory, food, like medicine, has "four qi" and "five flavors." Medicines have five flavors (sour, bitter, sweet, pungent, and salty) and four qi (cold, hot, warm, and cool). "The Four Natures, also known as the Four Properties, refer to four types of food properties: cold, hot, warm, and cool. In reality, since warm and hot, and cold and cool, are all variations in degree, there are only three properties: cold, hot, and neutral. Warm and hot foods often have the effects of warming yang, dispelling cold, and increasing sexual arousal levels, and are often used for cold syndromes, yin syndromes, and low sexual function. Cold and cool foods often have the effects of clearing heat, detoxifying, purging fire, and suppressing excessive sexual desire, and are often used for people with heat syndromes and yang syndromes. Neutral foods, whose nature is neither extreme, are between hot and cold, and often have the effects of stimulating appetite, strengthening the spleen, tonifying the kidneys, and replenishing qi. They are important foods for nourishing the body and regulating sexual function. The most important foods include chicken, duck, and pork.

Pork

1. Nutritional Components

Pork contains protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamin B₁, vitamin B₂, nicotinic acid,..." Calcium, phosphorus, iron, niacin, etc.

2. Properties and Efficacy

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that pork is sweet and salty in taste, neutral in nature, and has the effects of nourishing kidney yin, nourishing liver blood, and moisturizing the skin. It can be used as an adjunct treatment for dizziness, blurred vision, physical weakness, fatigue after prolonged illness, frigidity, seminal emission, and impotence caused by liver and kidney yin deficiency.

3. Examples of Sexual Health Applications

(1) For patients with seminal emission:

Take 200 grams of lean pork and 10 grams of cordyceps; wash the cordyceps and soak it in water for 2 hours; wash the lean pork; mince the cordyceps and pork together, add water and a little salt, and steam until cooked. Eat the meat and drink the soup.

(2) For women with weak constitution, post-illness weakness, and frigidity:

Take 100 grams of lean pork, 15 red dates, 50 grams of brown sugar, and an appropriate amount of rice wine, and steam in water... Stew until cooked, take warm, once daily for 15 consecutive days.

(3) For patients with impotence due to yin deficiency and fire excess:

Take 150g of lean pork, 25g of Rosa laevigata, and 25g of fresh Imperata cylindrica; wash and slice the lean pork; remove impurities from the fresh Imperata cylindrica and Rosa laevigata, wash them with clean water, and place them together with the lean pork slices in a clay pot, add an appropriate amount of water, stew until cooked, discard the dregs, eat the meat and drink the soup.

4. Examples of combining food with sexual health

Pork is an excellent food, rich in nutrients, and a common tonic in daily life. There are many kinds of dishes made with pork, such as braised pork, pork stewed with potatoes, steamed pork with lotus leaf rice flour, vegetarian pork patties, stir-fried pork slices with tofu, lion's head meatballs, roasted piglet, sweet and sour pineapple pork, stir-fried pork with chrysanthemum vermicelli, minced pork with winter melon, minced pork with loofah, stir-fried pork slices with chili peppers, etc. Dongpo pork, etc.

Among them, braised pork with fermented bean curd is red in color, tender in meat, and has an enticing aroma and unique flavor. It also has excellent health benefits, offering adjunctive treatment for many ailments such as malnutrition, anemia, physical weakness, and decreased libido. Regular consumption of this dish is also beneficial for healthy individuals.

The preparation method is as follows: Take 300g lean pork, 100g bamboo shoots, 50g red fermented bean curd juice, 1 egg, and appropriate amounts of cooking wine, sugar, cornstarch, broth, and lard. Wash the pork, slice it thinly, add the egg white, and mix thoroughly. Set aside. In another bowl, combine the fermented bean curd juice, cooking wine, pork broth, sugar, and cornstarch to make a sauce. Heat a wok over high heat, add lard, and when the oil is hot, add the pork slices and stir-fry over high heat until they change color. Remove from the wok and drain the oil. Heat a little oil in the wok over high heat, add the bamboo shoot slices, stir-fry until cooked, then add the pork slices and stir-fry for about 3 minutes. Minutes; Pour in the prepared braising liquid, stir-fry quickly for a few seconds, and when the braising liquid thickens, add sesame oil and MSG. Remove from heat and plate to serve.

5. Precautions

Middle-aged and elderly people, as well as those with hypertension, arteriosclerosis, or coronary heart disease, should eat less or avoid fatty pork.

Chicken

1. Nutritional Components

Chicken contains abundant protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamin B₁, vitamin B₂, nicotinic acid, vitamin E, iron, calcium, phosphorus, sodium, potassium, etc.

2. Properties and Efficacy

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that chicken is sweet and salty in taste, and neutral in nature. It has the effects of replenishing essence and marrow, warming the middle and benefiting qi, strengthening the waist and bones, etc. It can be used to treat chronic illness and weakness, postpartum deficiency, impotence, seminal emission, insufficient liver blood, irregular menstruation, and decreased libido.

3. Examples of Sexual Health Applications

For men suffering from erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation, etc.:

Take one yellow-feathered rooster (about 1000 grams), kill it, remove feathers and internal organs, wash it clean, blanch it in boiling water, cut it into pieces, add 25 grams of astragalus and 30 grams of wolfberry, place it in a casserole dish, add an appropriate amount of water, and simmer over low heat until cooked; remove the dregs, add MSG, fine salt, shredded ginger, and soy sauce to taste, drink the soup and eat the chicken.

4. Examples of Combining Food and Sexual Health Applications

Chicken is not only nutritious but also delicious, and can be used to make many delicacies.

Beijing-style roasted chicken, Hebei-style braised chicken, Henan-style Daokou roasted chicken, Jiangsu-style Changshu beggar's chicken, Liaoning-style braised chicken, Zhejiang-style beggar's chicken, Anhui-style smoked young chicken, Fujian-style drunken chicken, Hainan-style Wenchang white-cut chicken, Sichuan-style Kung Pao chicken and "strange flavor" chicken, Guizhou-style Kung Pao chicken, Yunnan-style steamed chicken, Shaanxi-style gourd chicken, Gansu-style... Longxi roasted chicken paste from Gansu, Cordyceps chicken with egg white from Qinghai, watermelon chicken from Shandong, steamed phoenix chicken from Hubei, spicy chicken and Dong'an chicken from Hunan, Guyuan roasted chicken from Ningxia, snow lotus whole chicken from Xinjiang, and three-cup chicken from Jiangxi are all famous local delicacies made from chicken.

Many health-promoting dishes are also made with chicken, such as wolfberry and watermelon chicken, angelica stewed hen, fermented bean curd chicken, astragalus stewed whole chicken, night-blooming jasmine chicken shreds, clear stewed white phoenix chicken, angelica stewed chicken, black-boned whole chicken, beer-braised chicken, he rooster stewed with fleeceflower root, sesame crispy chicken, walnut braised chicken, ginseng, astragalus, and monkey head mushroom stewed chicken, and milk-braised tender chicken.

Among them, milk-braised tender chicken has a rich milky flavor, is fragrant and tender, and is said to have the effects of strengthening the body, prolonging life, and improving libido when eaten regularly.

The method of preparation: Take one tender chicken (about 500 grams), 1000 grams of fresh milk, and finely chop... Salt, cooking wine, shredded ginger, scallion segments, peanut oil, sesame oil, and MSG, all in appropriate amounts; clean the whole chicken, remove the internal organs, marinate with fine salt, cooking wine, shredded ginger, and scallion segments for 15 minutes, blanch in boiling water for 1 minute to remove blood and fishy smell, then wash again, drain, and set aside; place a large earthenware pot on the fire, add fresh milk, and bring to a boil over high heat. When the milk is about to boil, add the chicken, fine salt, and cooking wine to the milk, bring to a boil again over high heat, then simmer over low heat until the chicken is tender. Turn off the heat, remove the chicken, cut into pieces, arrange on a plate, pour over a thin sauce made of milk, MSG, and cornstarch, and drizzle with sesame oil before serving.

5. Application Precautions

(1) There is a bursa of Fabricius at the tail of the chicken, which is a lymphatic organ, in which... (1) Chicken may contain bacteria and cancer cells, making it unsuitable for consumption; this "flesh" should be resolutely removed.

(2) Chicken should not be eaten with glutinous rice, plums, or carp.

(3) Those with liver yang hyperactivity or external pathogens should avoid consuming it.