The medicinal effects of eel, sea bass, and loach: A guide to male health through diet to strengthen the kidneys and enhance sperm quality.

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

Eel

1. Nutritional Components

Eel contains abundant vitamin A, vitamin B₁, carnosine, protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron, and especially selenoprotein.

2. Properties and Efficacy

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that eel is sweet in taste, neutral in nature, and slightly toxic. It has the effects of tonifying deficiency and strengthening the body, dispelling wind and dampness. It can be used to treat male impotence, premature ejaculation, spermatorrhea, and general weakness. The selenoprotein in eel has a sperm-strengthening effect.

3. Examples of Sexual Health Applications

For patients with impotence, premature ejaculation, and spermatorrhea, take one eel and 100 grams of lean pork, add fine salt, cooking wine, and minced ginger, stew together, add MSG when cooked, drink the soup while hot, and eat the eel and pork.

4. Examples of Combining Food and Sexual Health

Eel meat is tender and succulent, making it very delicious. "Fujian Fragrant River Eel" is a famous local dish from Fuzhou. This dish is refreshing, soft, and delicious, and is believed to have kidney-tonifying effects.

Preparation: Take freshwater river eels, a specialty of the lower reaches of the Minjiang River, clean and drain them. Sauté garlic cloves in oil and place them in a bowl. Arrange the eels on top, then add chicken broth, cooking wine, scallions, minced ginger, MSG, and light soy sauce. Arrange ham slices and shiitake mushrooms on top of the eels. Seal the bowl with cotton paper, steam until cooked, and eat while hot.

5. Precautions

Eel is considered cold in nature, therefore it is not suitable for those with weak spleen and kidneys after illness, or those with excessive phlegm and diarrhea.

Sea Bass

1. Nutritional Components

Sea bass contains protein, fat, vitamin A, vitamin B₁, vitamin B₂, nicotinic acid, and minerals, etc.

2. Properties and Efficacy

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that sea bass is sweet in taste and neutral in nature, possessing the effects of nourishing the liver and kidneys, strengthening the spleen and promoting diuresis, and strengthening muscles and bones. It can be used to treat liver and kidney deficiency, lower back and leg weakness, limb fatigue, impotence, and premature ejaculation.

3. Examples of Sexual Health Applications

(1) For those suffering from limb weakness, lower back and leg weakness, and frigidity due to liver and kidney deficiency, sea bass can be stewed in soup or steamed and consumed regularly for good results.

(2) For men suffering from impotence, premature ejaculation, and spermatorrhea, one sea bass (about 500 grams) can be stewed in a fresh broth and mixed with a decoction of schisandra chinensis, wolfberry, alpinia oxyphylla, and gallnut (15 grams each). Drink the broth while it is hot; the sea bass can be seasoned separately with salt, soy sauce, and MSG.

4. Examples of Combining Culinary Delight with Sexual Health

Sea bass has tender, nutritious flesh and can be stewed, steamed, or braised in various delicious ways.

Among them, "Boiled Four-Gill Sea Bass" is a traditional Shanghai dish, praised by Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty as "the number one dish in Jiangnan." This dish has a clear, white broth, is tender and delicious, and has excellent health benefits, including strengthening the stomach and spleen, prolonging life, improving physical health, and enhancing libido.

The preparation method is as follows: Kill a fresh sea bass, remove scales and internal organs, wash and drain. Heat lard in a pan, lightly fry, drain excess oil, add ginger slices, scallions, cooking wine, and salt. Add an appropriate amount of water and bring to a boil over high heat. When the broth turns milky white, cover and simmer over low heat. Uncover, add cooked ham slices and cooked bamboo shoot slices, cook briefly, add MSG, and serve.

5. Application Precautions

Bass is slightly poisonous; it is not advisable to eat too much at once.

Loach

1. Nutritional Components

Loach contains protein, fat, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin A, vitamin B₁, vitamin B₂, niacin, and sildenafil protein, etc.

2. Properties and Efficacy

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that loach is sweet and neutral in nature, and has the effects of tonifying the middle energizer, strengthening the kidneys and enhancing essence, and dispelling dampness and evil. It can be used as an adjunct treatment for chronic nephritis, diabetes, impotence, premature ejaculation, and frigidity. Loach contains sildenafil protein, which has a significant effect on enhancing sperm quality.

3. Examples of Sexual Health Applications

Patients with chronic nephritis, diabetes, impotence, and premature ejaculation can regularly eat steamed loach.

① Take 50 grams of live loach, starve them for 3 days until they expel all mud and debris, then remove them, place them in a box, add appropriate amounts of cooking wine, rendered pork fat, and egg white, and let them eat. Then add shredded ginger and fine salt, steam until cooked, and eat while hot with a dipping sauce. The dipping sauce is made of soy sauce, white vinegar, sesame oil, five-spice powder, chopped green onions, and minced ginger.

② Take 5 loach and 30 grams of shrimp; place the loach in clean water until they expel all mud and feces from their intestines, then remove them and cook them with the shrimp in a soup. Add appropriate amounts of salt and MSG, and eat the loach and drink the soup.

4. Examples of Combining Food and Sexual Health

Loach is nutritious and delicious, suitable for everyday dishes, culinary delights, and health-promoting dishes.

"Loach Drilling into Tofu" is a famous local dish of the Tujia ethnic group in Yongshun County, Hunan Province. This dish is incredibly fragrant and delicious. On the surface, it appears to be a bowl of tender white tofu. However, by peeling away the surface layer with chopsticks, one can discover plump loaches, instantly stimulating the appetite. It is also an ideal health food for those suffering from chronic nephritis, decreased libido, and impotence.

The preparation method is as follows: First, starve the loaches for several days to allow them to expel impurities. Then, add a small amount of lard paste to clean water. After the loaches have consumed the lard, stew them with the tofu. When almost cooked, add chili sauce, shredded ginger, scallions, salt, and cooking wine. Simmer for a few more minutes, then add MSG and sesame oil before serving.

5. Precautions

(1) Loaches should not be eaten with dog blood.

(2) Those with gout should use with caution.