Can I eat clams during menstruation?

Can female friends eat river clams during menstruation? To know the answer to this question, we must understand what river clams are, what the nutritional value of river clams is, what kind of health benefits and health care effects eating river clams regularly can bring us, or whether eating river clams will have a bad effect on us. Only by knowing these can we answer whether women can eat river clams during menstruation.

River clams are very rich in nutritional and medicinal value. Eating river clams regularly can quench thirst and detoxify. Most people can eat river clams, so there is no problem eating river clams during menstruation.

There are many types of clams, pearl clams, river clams, sea clams, etc. Freshwater mussels often produce pearls. Sea clams also produce pearls. Pearl is a precious medicine, also known as Lianzhu, which refers to the clam pearls produced in Lianzhou (now Hepu, Guangdong). In fact, they are produced everywhere in China. Now, artificial pearl cultivation has been successfully carried out in Hunan, Jiangsu and other places.

Food taste

Clam meat: sweet, salty, cold, non-toxic.

Gourmet ingredients

Clam meat contains protein, fat, carbohydrates, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamins A, B1, and B2. Pearls contain calcium carbonate, leucine, methionine, alanine, glycine, glutamic acid, aspartic acid, etc.

Gastropharmacology

Pearl amino acids can increase the heart beat amplitude of isolated animals and reduce the tension of isolated intestines. Diuretic experiments on rabbits showed a temporary increase in urine volume. The sulfuric acid hydrolyzate of pearl has an anti-histamine effect and can prevent animal shock and death caused by histamine, as well as animal allergic reactions caused by horse serum.

Food Function

Clam meat: quenches thirst, eliminates heat, detoxifies, and removes red eyes. Clam juice is used to apply to hemorrhoids. Shell powder can neutralize stomach acid. Mother of pearl (the bumps in the pearly layer inside the clam shell): soothes the liver, calms the nerves, and treats vertigo. Pearl powder: removes cataracts, improves eyesight, calms epilepsy, resolves phlegm and detoxifies.

Hemorrhoids, rectal prolapse, swelling and pain:

Take 1 live river clam, add about 0.3 grams of coptis powder and a little borneol, wait for the clam water to flow out, catch it in a bowl, and apply it to the affected area with a chicken feather brush, several times a day.

Red, swollen and painful eyes, nephrosis and polyps:

Pearl powder, processed calamine, borneol, amber, borax, bear bile, cinnabar and musk are made into eye drops for external use, which is the famous Chinese patent medicine "Babao Eye Drops".

Sore throat, sore throat, boils, carbuncle:

The famous Chinese medicine "Liushen Pills" are made from pearl powder, bezoar, kidney gall, musk, toad venom and borneol.

Above we introduced what river clams are. We know that river clams are rich in nutrients. River clams are not only edible but also have good therapeutic effects. River clams can protect our liver and kidneys and have the effects of detoxification and improving eyesight. River clams are suitable for most people, so you can eat river clams during menstruation.