Eel is classified into the group of foods that provide many nutrients that are beneficial to health. In Oriental medicine, eel plays many roles in improving the condition of deficiency, dispelling wind and eliminating dampness... This article will provide more information about the function of eel in treating diseases.
Eel meat is known as a valuable food used as an ingredient for many delicious eel dishes, such as eel porridge, eel vermicelli, eel salad... In 100 grams of eel meat can contain about 18.7 grams of protein, 0.9 grams of fat, 150 milligrams of Phosphorus, 39 milligrams of Calcium, 1.6 milligrams of Iron, vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamins B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B6 and vitamin PP or in 100 grams of eel meat there are 0.05 grams of cholesterol and 285 calories. In addition, eel meat also contains many other vitamins and minerals that are beneficial to health. When comparing eel with meats such as mussels, freshwater shrimp, and freshwater crabs, eel meat is classified as a nutritious food for the sick, the elderly, and children.
1. Health benefits of eel meat
In Oriental medicine, eel meat is warm and nourishing for the spleen and stomach. The function of eel meat for the body is to help replenish damage, dispel wind and dampness, and strengthen tendons and bones. Use eel meat for cases of blood and qi damage, wind-cold and dampness, postpartum hemorrhage, hemorrhagic dysentery syndrome, hemorrhagic hemorrhoids, or physical weakness. What are the effects of eating eel? Using eel in doses of about 200 to 500 grams with many different ways of processing helps bring many health benefits such as: cooling, laxative, sedative, strengthening tendons and bones as well as regulating blood and qi. According to some foreign documents, eel meat is used in the same way as steamed eel with rice as a popular medicinal dish used to treat jaundice - jaundice. Or using eel meat cooked with lotus root helps treat symptoms such as menorrhagia, metrorrhagia. Grilled eel wrapped in betel leaves also has the effect of treating rheumatism. Eel stewed with black beans has the effect of nourishing the nerves. When stewed eel with chicken gizzards for children, it can help treat indigestion in children.
2. Dishes made from eel meat bring many health benefits
Eel meat cures anemia, emaciation, fatigue: Use 10 grams of thinly sliced eel meat, ginger water has been filtered to get about 10 to 20 ml, take enough rice to cook eel porridge. And eating eel porridge during the day has the effect of curing anemia, emaciation and fatigue.
Eel meat can cure chronic hepatitis: Use 2 to 3 eels that have been butchered and washed thoroughly, remove the intestines, take 60 grams of mistletoe - tang ki sinh, 30 grams of reed roots, along with enough water. Cook this mixture and eat both the meat and the water. This dish has a good effect on chronic hepatitis.
Eel meat can cure nervous breakdown: Use 250 grams of cleaned and thinly sliced eel meat, 30 grams of Chinese yam, 30 grams of lily with enough water. Steam the mixture and eat during the day. Using this dish for 5 to 7 days has the effect of curing nervous breakdown.
Eel meat can cure sweaty hands or feet: Use 1 cleaned eel, then boil and remove the meat. Combine with 20 grams of coix seed, 30 grams of glutinous rice. Then, mix this mixture to cook eel porridge, add spices to taste. This porridge is used for about 5 to 7 days as a treatment for sweaty feet or hands.
Eel meat can cure spermatorrhea and nocturnal emission: Use 10 grams of cooked gun, then peel and dry, 50 grams of yam, also cooked and dried. Grind these two into powder and mix well, then cook eel porridge. Eel porridge is used when hungry and used continuously for a period of time to cure spermatorrhea and nocturnal emission.
Eel meat can cure leucorrhea: Use a large eel, take the middle part about 30 cm, then burn the eel to ashes, use finely ground pepper, sift the powder. Mix these two mixtures well and use 8 grams of this mixture with wine, drink 3 times a day to help treat leucorrhea and vaginal discharge.
3. Medicines using eel meat to treat some diseases
Remedy to help treat rheumatism, bone and joint pain, hemorrhoids bleeding: Use 300 to 400 grams of grilled eel, wrapped in river bone and betel leaves. The eel is cleaned of slime, then the intestines are removed, ginger, garlic, salt and pepper are added. Use river bone and betel leaves to wrap it and grill until cooked. Use this medicine with meals.
Remedy for eel stewed with fritillary to treat tuberculosis and frequent coughs: Use 250 grams of eel, 15 grams of fritillary, 30 grams of lily, 15 grams of white root, 4 grams of schisandra. The eel is cleaned, then the medicinal herbs are put in a muslin bag and cooked with the eel meat until cooked, then the residue is removed, salt, pepper and spices are added. Divide this medicine into 1 to 2 servings per day and use this medicine while it is still hot and do it continuously for about 10 days.
The eel stewed with ginseng helps to restore people who are weak, after a long-term serious illness or have blood deficiency, qi deficiency such as anemia, paleness, fatigue, weight loss: Use 300 to 500 grams of eel, 15 grams of ginseng, 15 grams of angelica. The eel is cleaned to remove the slime, and the medicinal herbs are put in a coarse cloth bag, add enough water and boil this mixture for about 1 hour, then add onions, ginger, salt, cooking oil and use this medicine with rice.
The eel wine and man ngu medicine helps to improve the condition of weakness, weight loss, cold hands and feet, and bleeding when urinating and defecating: Use 500ml of light wine - prince, 500 grams of eel. The eel is cleaned to remove the slime and intestines, then put the eel in a pot, add wine, salt, and an appropriate amount of water. Then, simmer until cooked, and eat this medicine with a little vinegar sauce.
The eel and chicken gizzard medicine is effective in helping children with indigestion: Use 50 grams of eel meat, 10 grams of chicken gizzard, fish sauce, and salt in sufficient amounts. Cook this mixture until it is well done and eat about 1 to 2 times a day and do this medicine for about 5 to 7 days.
Eels often live in muddy ponds, swamps... these environments are not clean. Moreover, eels are omnivorous, so the digestive system as well as the meat of eels can be infected with bacteria and parasites. There have been people who have used eel meat with undercooked stir-fried eel meat, which has caused them to be infected with parasites with Gnathostoma spinigerum larvae from 0.8 to 29.6%, the rate of infection in the dry season is lower than in the rainy season.
This type of larva is very resilient and can withstand high temperatures. Therefore, if you process the eel by simply frying the fruit over a fire, it can help the larvae living on the eel to survive and enter the human intestine through the digestive tract. Furthermore, you should not buy or use dead eels.
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