Sea cucumbers (sea cucumbers) are invertebrates, living mainly in shallow seas. Sea cucumber contains abundant nutrients, has the effect of fostering health, anti-aging, enhancing male vitality and supporting cancer prevention.
- Other names: Sea ginseng, ginseng of the sea, sea leeches, sea cucumber, sea cucumber, …
- Scientific name: Stichopus japonicus Sel
- Family: Sea cucumber (Holothuroidea)
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Description of medicinal herbs
1. Characteristics of sea cucumber
Sea cucumbers are invertebrates, living and growing in salt water. This animal has a tubular structure similar to a leech, about 20cm in size. Sea cucumbers have rough, rough, brown or black skin with a bone just below the skin.
Sea leeches live mainly on undersea sand bottom or dead coral reefs and thrive in shallow sea, about 2 – 5m deep. The animals’ food is organic matter, phytoplankton and marine animals.
2. Distribution
Sea cucumbers live mainly in shallow and sandy waters. This animal grows in China, Japan, Vietnam and some other Asian countries. In our country, sea cucumbers are concentrated in Tho Chu, Phu Quoc, Con Dao, Truong Sa island, Khanh Hoa, …
3. Parts used
Whole sea cucumbers are used for food and medicine. However, if used to make medicine, must choose sea cucumber with a long, large size, the outside is covered with viscous layer and the inner meat is black. Sea cucumbers without thorns on the body are usually of poor quality and are rarely used in medicine.
4. Common types of sea cucumber
In our country, there are about 40 types of sea leeches. Among them, the most commonly used sea cucumbers are:
- Leptopentacta Tybica – This is a small sea cucumber, with 2 small tentacles on the abdomen and a total of 10 tentacles. This sea cucumber species lives mainly in the Gulf of Tonkin.
- Protankyra Pseudodigitata – This sea cucumber has a total of 12 tentacles, tubular legs and a worm-like appearance. Sea cucumber Protankyra Pseudodigitata lives mainly in waters 10 – 50m deep, with fine mud or sandy mud.
- Holothuria martensii L – Holothuria martensii L is the most popular sea cucumber species in our country and lives mainly in the Gulf of Tonkin. This sea cucumber has up to 20 tentacles and lives in subtidal waters.
5. Capture – preliminary processing
People often collect sea cucumbers before the rainy season to ensure that the medicinal herbs have the highest nutritional value. After collecting, they are dried and stored for easy use.
Some ways to prepare medicinal herbs:
- When needed, soak it soft, slice it into slices, dry it, and spread the powder.
- Or can be collected, scraped and washed with salt water. After that, bring sea cucumber from the inside out, washed, dried and dried to make it crispy. When used, soak it with water to soften, then thin it into 3 – 5 cups, so that the sticky rice is golden. Next, bring medicinal herbs into a fine powder to be processed into delicious food or used to make medicine.
6. Nutritional ingredients
Sea cucumber contains abundant and diverse nutritional content. Nutritional analysis in 100g sea cucumber found that this food contains 5 times more protein than lean meat and 3.5 times higher than beef.
Furthermore, sea leeches also provide the body with many amino acids such as aspartic acid, isolecine, tyrosine, thinonine, glutamic acid, histadine, ariginine, praline, lysine, … Besides, sea cucumber also contains many vitamins and minerals. good for health.
Sea cucumber taste
1. Temperament – Regression
- Salty taste, warmth
- Refers to the kidney and mind sutras
2. Pharmacological effects
– According to traditional medicine:
- Effects of apple laxative, blood nourishment, nourishing benefits, kidney
- Treatment of impotence, sperm, damaged sperm, anemia, constipation and urination many times at night
– According to modern medicine:
- Inhibition of cancer cells: Research shows that two types of saponins in sea cucumber (Rg and Rh) effectively inhibit cancer cells. Therefore, sea cucumber is often used for the prevention of cancer in the middle and elderly.
- Male Enhancement: Sea cucumber contains very high levels of the hormone testosterone. Therefore, supplementing dishes and remedies from these medicinal herbs can enhance male vitality and support the treatment of a number of physiological diseases such as premature ejaculation, spermatogenesis, spermatozoa, …
- Some other effects: In addition, sea cucumber also works against fatigue of the heart muscle, increases oxygen absorption, promotes blood circulation, enhances the activity of the nervous system, …
3. Usage – Dosage
Sea cucumber is used in many different forms such as powder, dissolving or used to stew with other foods and herbs. Average dose 6 – 10g / day.
Some remedies and dishes from sea cucumber flavor
1. A remedy for neurasthenia due to kidney damage (back pain, knee pain, dizziness, head dizziness, insomnia, tinnitus, premature ejaculation, …)
- Preparation: 100g sticky rice and sea cucumber 30g.
- Implementation: Preliminary processing the ingredients and then put both things in the pot and simmer into porridge. When ripe, season to taste and divide it into several meals a day. Should eat regularly from 5-7 consecutive days to see a clear effect.
2. Diabetes remedy
- Preparation: Pancreas 1 pig, 1 chicken egg and 2 sea cucumbers.
- Directions: Put all in the cup and steam it. Eat once a day and use continuously for 5-7 days.
3. Medicines to treat high blood pressure, atherosclerosis
- Preparation: Sea cucumber 50g.
- Directions: Stew for mash, then add sugar to alum and eat all day. Eat continuously for 7 consecutive days.
4. Medicines to treat impotence (impotence)
- Preparation: 100g goat meat and sea cucumber 20g.
- Directions: Stew 2 ingredients to soften, then season to taste and eat all of the day. Use food continuously for 5-7 days.
5. Treatments for nephrotic disorders causing memory impairment and back pain
- Preparation: 15g peach, 60g pork backbone and 30g sea cucumber.
- Directions: Put all in the stew pot to soften, then taste more spices and eat all day. Should be used regularly for 5 days.
6. Remedy for constipation caused by yin damage
- Preparation: 15g black fungus, sea cucumber 30g, 120g pig colon.
- Implementation: Put 3 ingredients in the stew pot to soften. Eat once a day, eat immediately for many days to notice a positive change.
7. Medicines to treat hemorrhoids
- Preparation: Sea cucumber (just enough).
- Implementation: Bring sea cucumber burned inventory, powdered. Each time using 1.5g powder mixed with a 6g delivery with boiling water and drink directly. Drink 3 times a day, each time from 5-7 days.
8. Remedy for anemia
- Exercise 1: Prepare the same amount of two flavors of apple and sea cucumber. Bring two flavors dried into fine powder. Each time using 9g powder with warm water, use 2 times a day.
- Exercise 2: Use sea cucumber stew with wood ear to get water. Then mix with a little bit of sugar and drink all the water, eat.
9. Epilepsy remedies
- Preparation: Viscera of sea cucumber and golden wine (golden wine is a wine soaked from rice, glutinous rice, millet of golden seeds)
- Implementation: Using dried sea cucumber’s organs crushed into a powder. Each time using 12g powder technique with golden wine and drink directly. Should be used continuously for 7 – 10 consecutive days.
10. Remedy to treat sperm, cold sperm and impotence due to kidney failure
- Preparation: 100 seeds peach nectar, sea cucumber (fragrant star) 480g, 4 – 6 pairs of goat kidneys, 240g baby rabbits, 240g pea rabbits, 240g rabbits. Sentence of death, only supplement, locus intersection, ox all (impregnated with vinegar), dong rules and regulations (stars with vinegar) each 120g, three click (soaked with liquorice star) 124g.
- Implementation: Bring all dried, powdered and melted with honey to complete, each weighing 9g. Each time using 3 capsules, drink regularly 3 times.
11. Medicines for genetics
- Preparation: Ky Tu 10g, 1 pair of goat, dong quai 12g and 50g sea cucumber
- Directions: Put all ingredients in the pot with a little water to soften. Eat 2 times a day, use continuously for 7 days to notice a positive change.
12. All medications tonic liver and kidney and lower blood pressure
- Preparation: Do Trong 5g and sea cucumber 50g.
- Directions: Put all ingredients in a pot with 100ml of chicken broth. Add a little onion, ginger and salt and simmer until tender. Eat once a day and use it regularly for many days to see a noticeable effect.
13. Sea cucumber porridge low pressure and nourishing blood
- Preparation: Sea cucumber 50g, 100g rice and garlic 30g.
- Implementation: Preliminary processing and cooking ingredients to make porridge. Eat once a day in the early morning.
14. Medicines to treat tuberculosis
- Preparation: White access 250g, turtle shell 1 piece and sea cucumber 500g.
- Directions: Bring the tortoise shell to a crispy roast, then let all medicinal herbs into chopped, yellow star and powdered. Each time using 25g powder of medicine to drink with warm water, use 3 times a day.
15. Medicine to treat tumors in the body
- Preparation: Wood ear 30g, sea cucumber 30g and large intestine.
- Implementation: Bring wood ear wood ear and chopped sea cucumber, then stuff in a large intestine and boil until it is ripe. Use food during the day, should be used continuously for a few days to realize a noticeable effect.
16. Sea cucumber pork broth with atrium treatment constipation, mood swings
- Preparation: Pork, sea cucumber and wood ear fungus, dosage is optional.
- Directions: Preliminary processing of ingredients and cook in the form of soup. When cooked, season to taste and eat while still hot.
17. Ginger urine anise in sea cucumber treatment, sperm mobility, impotence, premature aging, body weakness
- Preparation: Anise, ginger and sea cucumber 15g.
- Directions: Bring sea cucumber to soften and then stir with boiling water. After that, add sea cucumber to the pot with the anise cooked. When eating more slices of fresh ginger crushed.
18. Remedy for skin ulcers
- Preparation: Sea cucumber just enough.
- Implementation: Dried, then pulverized. Apply powder to the sore area until the skin has healed.
19. Medicine for chronic dysentery
- Preparation: Sea leech just enough.
- Implementation: Bring color to drink, use 1 ladder a day. Use the remedy continuously until symptoms improve, then stop.
20. Fried sea cucumber helps prevent cancer, slow down the aging process
- Preparation: Bell peppers and sea cucumbers just enough.
- Directions: Stir fry until cooked, season to taste and eat while still hot.
21. Medicines for neurasthenia cause trouble sleeping and insomnia
- Preparation: Lotus seeds 200g, honey 50ml and sea cucumber 100g.
- Implementation: Bring sea cucumber and lotus seeds dried, powdered. Then, train with honey to corn kernels and dry. Every day use 6 tablets to drink with boiling water to cool.
22. Antidote to itchy sores
- Preparation: Sesame oil 150ml and sea cucumber 100g.
- Implementation: Bring dried sea cucumber, powdered and mixed with sesame oil. Then, apply to the sore area daily.
23. Oriental fried sea cucumber is suitable for radiation therapy patients with poor appetite and hair loss
- Preparation: Sea cucumber and shiitake mushroom, dosage customized.
- Directions: Soak ingredients soft, slice to taste and fry until cooked.
24. Sea cucumber soup through diabetes treatment
- Preparation: bitter melon and sea cucumber each 20g.
- Directions: Cook sea cucumber soup with bitter melon, season with spices and eat when hot.
Abstinence – Note when using sea cucumber
Sea cucumber is a valuable medicine that fosters health, prevents depression and anti-aging. However, before using this medicine, you need to note the following issues:
- Avoid mistaking sea cucumber with sea cucumber (some places call it sea cucumber). This is essentially a yeast cultured in tea water that is often used to make healthy and refreshing water.
- People with diarrhea, colitis , dysentery, spermatozoa, low phlegm (obesity) should not use sea cucumber taste.
- Avoid drinking green tea after taking any dishes and remedies from sea cucumber. The tannins in green tea can decrease the absorption of the nutrients contained in this precious medicine.
- Should not use sea cucumber with licorice.
- Avoid using vinegar in sea cucumber processing. The acid in vinegar can cause proteins to precipitate, significantly affecting the flavor and nutritional value of your precious medicine.
The article has summarized some information about uses, dishes, remedies, … from sea cucumber flavor. However, to ensure the nutritional value of medicinal herbs, you should consult your doctor for specific instructions on how to use and dosage.
