Can I eat leeches? If so, is it okay to eat them raw? Why?

Leeches can be taken as a medicinal herb to invigorate blood circulation and remove blood stasis, and to promote menstruation and dissipate knots, but leeches can't be eaten raw in general, they are usually dried in the sun, and then ground into a powder, which can be washed down with a drink or eaten with other foods.

Leeches, commonly known as leeches, in the "Shennong Ben Cao Jing" has been recorded, has a high medicinal value; growth and reproduction in inland freshwater waters, is China's traditional special medicinal aquatic animals, and its dried products soaked Chinese medicine into medicine, with the treatment of stroke, hypertension, clearing blood stasis, amenorrhea, bruises and other effects. In recent years, leech preparations have been found to be effective in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and anti-cancer. Historically, leeches were mainly caught naturally, but due to the abuse of pesticides and chemical fertilizers in recent years, as well as the pollution of the environment by industrial and agricultural "three wastes", the wild natural resources have been sharply reduced, and with the in-depth development of leeches' medicinal value, the market demand has a huge potential. In southern China, around 1995, we started to catch natural seedlings, and the first time we raised leeches artificially, and we got success. In the northern part of the country, there has been no breeding due to seedling and technical reasons.

1, leeches therapeutic effect:

Taste salty, bitter, flat, non-toxic. Attributed to the liver meridian. Fishy and good line, into the blood to break the dispersion.

Breaking blood and removing blood stasis, and eliminating obstruction through menstruation. This product has strong blood-breaking power, and is suitable for menstrual closure caused by stagnation of blood stasis, tumor masses, as well as bruises and swelling pains.

This product is bitter, salty, and good at breaking blood stasis and eliminating swelling. It is a strong medicine for breaking blood stasis and eliminating stagnation of blood, and it is mainly used for treating serious cases of blood stasis.

2, leeches practice guide:

Wherever blood heat stasis junction lower focal point, symptomatic abdominal hardness, madness of the blood storage disease, more with gadfly, rhubarb, peach kernel and so on. Where menstruation does not work, the accumulation of a long time into?

Whenever menstruation fails, the accumulation of long time becomes a disease, it can be used with gadfly, peach kernel, ripened dihuang, etc. If a woman's menstruation is closed and fails to work, or if the evil discharge is not exhausted after delivery, and it is formed as a mass in the abdomen, and the person who eats little and labors and coughs, and becomes a disease of deficiency, it can be used with Curcuma longa, Trigonella foetidis, Astragali, angelica, etc. as pills in order to dispel blood stasis and support correctness.

It is forbidden to take it for those who are weak in body and blood, pregnant women, women during menstruation and those who have bleeding tendency.

3. In addition, live leeches can be used externally to draw blood, which can eliminate carbuncles and swollen and poisonous.

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