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What is the function of shrimp and what kind of medicinal food can it make?
Shrimp is a long-tailed suborder of crustacean decapod. Shrimp was called shrimp in ancient times, and sea shrimp was called red shrimp. Vegetarians are mostly freshwater shrimps and prawns.

Performance shrimp tastes sweet and warm, and enters the liver and kidney meridians. It contains protein, fat, carbohydrate, calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, vitamins (A, B 1, B2) and nicotinic acid. Among them, dried seaweed contains 58. 1% protein and 20.6% prawn, and contains many amino acids, such as valine, leucine, isoleucine, threonine, phenylalanine, lysine and cystine. Its functions: ① tonifying kidney and strengthening yang, and treating impotence, fatigue, soreness of waist and knees caused by kidney-yang deficiency. ② Tonifying deficiency and increasing milk to treat postpartum hypogalactia. ③ Cure erysipelas, carbuncle, ulcer and other diseases by relying on poison.

Precautions and taboos ① Shrimp is a shrimp in a paddy field ditch, which is not suitable for eating. ② Some people have urticaria after eating shrimp, which is an allergic reaction. It can be decocted with 15g of perilla leaf, which is effective. ③ People with heat due to yang deficiency or heat due to yin deficiency should not use it, because it is warm and hot.

Formulas and usage

(1) Fried shrimps with wine: 200-300g fresh shrimps, 500g yellow wine or rice wine. Soak the shrimp in wine for about 10 ~ 15 minutes, take it out, and fry it in a pot. Shrimp is warm with wine, which has stronger power of tonifying kidney and strengthening yang, and is suitable for treating kidney-yang deficiency, chills, lumbago and impotence.

(2) Fried shrimp with leek: raw shrimp 100 ~ 200g, leek 500g. Wash the raw shrimp, remove the shell and feet, wash and cut the leek, add oil to the pot, then fry the shrimp and leek, add salt, and eat when cooked. Both of them are used for tonifying kidney and strengthening yang, and are suitable for impotence caused by kidney-yang deficiency.

(3) Aspongopus shrimp soup: Aspongopus 10g, shrimp 30g. Decoct the two herbs together, and take the soup after boiling for 1 hour. Aspongopus warms the kidney and helps yang, strengthening yang and benefiting qi; Shrimp tonifies kidney and strengthens yang. Both herbs are herbs for warming kidney and strengthening yang, and are suitable for impotence and lumbago caused by yin deficiency.

(4) Shrimp soup with bean curd brain: shrimp 15 ~ 20g, and 2 ~ 3 pieces of bean curd brain. Wash the shrimps, cut the tofu into pieces, cook the two ingredients in a casserole, add onion, ginger and salt, and have soup and tofu and shrimps when the shrimps are cooked. Shrimp and tofu are used to tonify spleen and kidney, and are suitable for those with deficiency of both spleen and kidney.