Hua Jia, also known as Meretrix meretrix, is a mollusk with an oval shell, light brown and purple edges. Living at the bottom of shallow sea.
Efficacy: Clam meat and mollusks contain cholesterol-lowering agents 7- cholesterol and 24- methylene cholesterol, which can lower serum cholesterol. They have the unique functions of inhibiting liver cholesterol synthesis and accelerating cholesterol excretion, thus reducing cholesterol in the body. Chinese medicine believes that mussel meat has the effects of nourishing yin, improving eyesight, softening and resolving phlegm, and some shellfish are also beneficial to refinement, moistening dryness and turning dirty. Food taboo: patients with chronic diseases should eat carefully, and those with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold should not eat more.