The efficacy, effects and eating methods of seahorse

Seahorses are not only rich in nutritional value, but also have strong health-enhancing effects. Seahorse is a kind of fish, but its body shape has the physical characteristics of horses, shrimps and elephants, especially the head is more like a horse's head, hence the name seahorse. Seahorse has excellent anti-cancer activity, the effect of dispersing nodules and reducing swelling, especially for men it has a good aphrodisiac effect. So what other functions and effects does the seahorse have?

1. Sex hormone-like effects: The ethanol extract of hippocampus (i.e. "seahorse wine") can induce and prolong the estrus period of female mice and increase the weight of the uterus and ovaries. It can also significantly increase the weight of the prostate, seminal vesicles, and levator ani muscles of male mice, showing an androgen-like effect.

2. Anti-aging: Hippocampus can enhance the hypoxia tolerance of mice, reduce the activity of monoamine oxidase, and reduce the content of lipid peroxides in the body. In addition, various hippocampal extracts have the effect of calcium channel blockers. By blocking calcium influx, it protects neurons.

3. Anticancer Activity

4. Warming the kidney and strengthening yang, dispersing nodules and reducing swelling. Used for impotence, enuresis, asthma due to kidney deficiency, accumulation of tumors, injuries from falls; external treatment of carbuncles and furuncles.

Wood aroma soup

Ingredients: 1 male and 1 female seahorse, 30g costus root, 60g each of stir-fried rhubarb and stir-fried white morning glory seeds, 49 croton seeds, and 60g green peel.

1. Soak cork, rhubarb, and white morning glory in children's urine, wrap croton with it, and then soak it in children's urine for 7 days.

2. Take it out and fry it with bran until it turns yellow. Remove the croton seeds and grind the green peel into powder (also grind the seahorse into powder).

3. Decoction once a day, 6g each time, take warm before bedtime. It is mainly used to treat long-term accumulation of deficiency and excess symptoms.

Seahorse Broiler

Ingredients: 1 young chicken, 10g seahorse, 100g shrimp, appropriate amounts of cooking wine, salt, MSG, onion, ginger, etc.

1. Remove the hair and internal organs of the young chicken and put it into the steamer.

2. Place the shrimps around the chicken, add onion, ginger, cooking wine, salt, MSG, etc., and steam until cooked.

3. Eat chicken, shrimp and drink soup.

Taboo

It is not suitable for people with yin deficiency and heat. Seahorse has the effects of strengthening body, inducing labor, relieving pain, strengthening the heart, dispersing nodules, reducing swelling, relaxing muscles and tendons, and relieving cough and asthma. There is a saying that "there is ginseng in the north and seahorse in the south". In addition to being used to manufacture various synthetic medicines, seahorses can also be taken directly to improve health and treat diseases.

The main methods of taking are as follows:

1. Dry the seahorse and grind it into powder, soak it in pure rice wine for more than 40 days, and drink a small cup every night before going to bed;

2. Combine it with Chinese medicine such as angelica, astragalus, codonopsis, Chinese yam, red dates, wolfberry and chicken stew, and eat it as a daily tonic;

3. Use a pig kidney each time, cut it in the middle, clamp 1-2 seahorses, put it in a porcelain bowl and stew it in water, and eat it before going to bed at night.