How to Eat Seahorses

Seahorse is a common seafood. It is not only a traditional Chinese medicine, but also a good therapeutic food. Eating some seahorse properly can improve the sexual ability of men, prevent sexual dysfunction, and has certain effects in relieving soreness of waist and knees, and nourishing the kidney and strengthening yang. There are many ways to eat seahorse. You can buy some seahorse health products, or you can use seahorse to make some medicinal food.

How to Eat Seahorses

(I) Seahorse and pigeon soup 1. Ingredients (1) Main ingredients: 400g pigeon, 2 pairs of seahorses, 20g longan. (2) Auxiliary materials: 1500ml of clean water 2. Step a. Ingredients: pigeon, seahorse and longan. b. Wash the longan. c. Wash the seahorse and dry-fry it. d. Clean the pigeons and blanch them. e. Put all the ingredients into the inner pot of the electric stew pot. f. Add 1500ml of clean water. g. Cover the pot, turn on the power, select the [Quick Stew] function key, and set the time to 2:30 hours. h. When the time is up, turn off the power and serve. 3. Tip: Adding longan can increase the sweetness of the soup.

(II) Seahorse, coconut and lean meat soup 1. Ingredients (1) Main ingredients: 500g lean meat, 4 seahorses, 4 puffins, 1 black coconut. (2) Auxiliary ingredients: appropriate amount of ginger slices, salt, red dates, yam, Xianglian, and lily. 2. Step a. Wash the seahorses and puffins with clean water and set aside for later use; b. Wash and pit the red dates, and wash the yam, lotus seeds and lilies with clean water; c. Pour out the coconut water from the black coconut, peel it, remove the black skin, and cut it into strips of appropriate size; d. Cut the lean meat into large slices and cut the ginger into three slices; e. Put the lean meat and ginger slices in cold water to blanch the blood, and then rinse with clean water; f. Put the blanched lean meat and ginger slices into the stewing pot; g. Add the soup ingredients prepared in steps a, b, and c; h. Then fill it about eight-tenths full with boiling water; i. Use the electronic stewing pot according to the instructions, and also fill the outer periphery with boiling water to the water level line, cover the lid, and stew for about 3 hours; j. Add appropriate amount of salt to the stewed soup! 3. Tips: Black coconut is sweeter than ordinary old coconut. If stewing it with soup, just add it 20 minutes before the soup is ready!

Modern pharmacological effects of hippocampus

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. It has anti-cancer activity.

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