The wonderful medicinal uses of grass carp

Grass carp has a sweet taste, warm properties, is non-toxic, and has the effect of nourishing the brain and marrow, moistening the lungs, and benefiting the spleen and stomach...

Grass carp has firm meat, sweet taste, fatty but not greasy. With skillful processing, housewives can cook delicious dishes such as braised grass carp with pepper, braised grass carp with pickled cabbage, sour grass carp soup... Fish meat has a lot of protein; fish fat has a lot of unsaturated fatty acids; fish bile contains sterol. In Oriental medicine, grass carp is also called lotus fish, white-footed lotus, and fish. The parts used as medicine are the meat, fat, and bile of the fish.

Grass carp has a sweet taste, warm properties, is non-toxic, and has the effect of nourishing the brain and marrow, moistening the lungs, and benefiting the spleen and stomach. In ancient medical books, it is recorded: The white meat of the fish has the effect of stimulating appetite, lowering gas, regulating the five internal organs, preventing blood vessel damage, nourishing the liver, and improving eyesight. Used for cases of weak spleen and stomach, poor appetite, abdominal pain, bloating, rough skin, peeling skin, and dry skin. Elderly people who regularly use grass carp can prevent headaches, memory loss, coughs, phlegm, and asthma.

For people with weakness, fever, loss of appetite: 300g fresh silver carp, 30g Chinese wolfberry. Clean silver carp, remove head and bones, slice thinly; cook thoroughly with Chinese wolfberry. Before eating, add green bean sprouts, ginger, coriander, celery, onion, salt, pepper; cook until done. Eat during the day.

Used for cases of postpartum blood deficiency and lack of milk: 1 silver carp, 30g squash seeds, 10g turmeric. Cook as soup, once a day.

Used for cases of spleen and stomach yang deficiency, cold deficiency, poor appetite, slow digestion, bloating, belching, fear of cold, cough, asthma, vomiting: 1 silver carp, 18 - 30g fresh ginger. Clean silver carp; 1 fresh ginger root, peel, crush but still keep the whole root; add pepper, fresh onion, spices and cook into fish soup. Eat continuously for 5 - 7 days.

For patients with edema and little urination: 1 silver carp, 30g red beans. Clean the silver carp, put it in a pot and stew with red beans, add appropriate spices. Eat for 5-7 days.

Used for headaches, dizziness (hallucinations), tired limbs: 1 silver carp head, 15g gastrodia elata. Add fish head, gastrodia elata, salt, spices and water in appropriate amounts, simmer until soft. Eat for 5-7 days.

Grass carp fat is found in the belly of the fish. Fry the fat and use it to treat minor skin burns.

Taboos:

Grass carp is warm in nature. Eating too much will cause internal heat, thirst, and mouth ulcers. Therefore, people with excess yang, internal heat, constipation, itching, and acne should not eat it. Do not eat grass carp raw or undercooked fish because the fish often carries liver fluke larvae.

According to family.net - TL