Snakehead fish - Delicious food, precious medicine

Snakehead fish has a lot of lean, soft meat, little fat, delicious taste, it is also a nutritious dish to prevent and treat some incurable diseases (cardiovascular, cancer...) due to its antioxidant effects.

Among freshwater fish, snakehead fish (banana fish, snakehead fish...) is the most popular because it is rich in nutrients and delicious. Snakehead fish has a lot of soft lean meat, little fat, delicious taste, it is also a nutritious dish to prevent and treat some incurable diseases (cardiovascular disease, cancer...) due to its antioxidant effect.

According to Oriental medicine, snakehead fish is sweet, neutral in nature; affects the spleen, stomach, and kidneys. It has the effect of strengthening the spleen, promoting urination, removing stasis and generating new fluid, dispelling wind and clearing heat, replenishing qi and blood, benefiting the kidneys and strengthening yang. Used for cases of joint pain, rheumatism, edema, itching, children with poor appetite, indigestion, hemorrhoids; nourishing tendons, bones, and internal organs. Can use 100 - 200g daily in many ways such as braising, cooking, stewing, frying, grilling, fish floss, steaming fish. Here are some medicinal dishes with snakehead fish:

Snakehead fish stewed with winter melon:1 snakehead fish (200 - 300g), 200g squash. Clean the fish, remove the intestines and scales, peel the squash, slice it, add crushed onions and garlic. Add water and spices, no salt; cook until done. Eat once a day for 3 - 5 days. Used for cases of swelling of hands and feet, swelling due to pregnancy poisoning, swelling due to heart and kidney diseases, swelling due to malnutrition.

Snakehead fish stewed with squash is good for people with edema.

Snakehead fish stewed with jujube: 1 snakehead fish (200 - 300g), 5 - 7 red apples, 12g fresh ginger. Clean the fish, remove the scales, intestines, head and tail, cut into pieces; crush the ginger. Add red apples, fish sauce, salt, pepper powder and spices, cook until soft. Eat 2 - 3 times a week. Used for cases of tuberculosis, weakness...

Ginger pepper fish floss:1kg snakehead fish or anchovy: clean the scales, remove the intestines, cut the head and tail into pieces, add fish sauce, salt, pepper powder, crushed ginger, do not add onion and MSG, add a little boiling water to cook, remove the bones, pound into floss, add salt, pepper and a little ginger powder in appropriate amount; dry roast in a pan, let cool, put in a clean jar with a tight lid. Used for the elderly, women, children with weakness, thinness and loss of appetite, eat with meals every 5-7 days.

Snakehead fish spring rolls:200g snakehead fish, 1 handful of fish mint, 1 bag of spring rolls. Remove gall bladder, wash, cover with soil and put in the fire until the soil is dry and cracked. Let cool, remove the soil and scrape off the fins, take the fish meat. Roll the fish meat with fish mint and some other herbs (coriander, fresh onion); dip in fish sauce. Cure hemorrhoids.

Red bean fish soup:200g snakehead fish, 200g beef intestines, 200g red beans. Clean and remove the intestines and gall bladder of the fish, cut into pieces; clean the beef intestines and cut into thin slices; cook with red beans into soup. Eat once. Treats kidney failure, fatty liver, and edema.

Snakehead fish soup with sorrel leaves:1 snakehead fish (200 - 300g), 150g bean sprouts, 100g tomatoes, 70g sorrel leaves, seasoning to taste. Filter the fish to get the meat, slice thinly, and marinate with spices. Boil the bones and head thoroughly to get the water and discard the residue; cook tomatoes, sorrel leaves, and marinated meat; before turning off the stove, add the bean sprouts. Eat twice a day, for 1 - 2 weeks in a row. Treats low heat in the bladder, frequent urination, little and yellow urine.

Red snapper soup: 1 snakehead fish (300-400g), 24g Chinese clematis root, 9g red ginseng, 30g Chinese yam, 30g raw astragalus root. Clean the fish, put Chinese clematis root in a cloth bag, slice red ginseng. Cook until done. Nourishes vital energy and promotes urination. Used for people with weakness, shortness of breath, pale complexion, and people after prostate surgery.

Garlic fish soup:1 snakehead fish 200 - 300g, 5 - 7 garlic leaves. Clean and thinly slice the fish, wash and slice the garlic leaves. Stew until soft, add seasoning to taste. Eat twice a day. Nourishes blood, bloody urine due to spleen deficiency.

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