Snow frog, scientific name "Northeast Linwa", belongs to the amphibian class, tailless order, frog family, frog genus. It is called snow frog because it can hibernate for up to five months in the cold winter. Snow frog is a rare food, supplement, and medicine with effects such as "nourishing the essence, nourishing the yin and moistening the lungs, nourishing the brain and improving intelligence". So what are the medicinal recipes for snow frog?
【Nutritional value of snow frog】
1. Snow frog contains a large amount of protein, amino acids, various trace elements, and animal polypeptides, especially suitable as a daily supplement.
2. Snow frog oil, also known as linwa oil, contains 4 hormones, 9 vitamins, 13 trace elements, 18 amino acids, and various ketones, alcohols, and polypeptide biologically active factors.
【Efficacy and function of snow frog】
1. Snow frog is salty and mild in nature, neither dry nor hot. It has the effects of lowering blood fat, anti-fatigue, enhancing immune function, improving physical endurance, calming, anti-anxiety, improving brain tissue cell oxygen supply and utilization ability, and enhancing sexual function.
2. "Snow frog nourishes the kidneys and nourishes the essence, nourishes the yin and moistens the lungs. It is used for physical weakness, post-illness disorders, mental fatigue, insufficient kidney essence, palpitations, insomnia, night sweats, and tuberculosis coughing with blood."
Snow frog is a food with high nutritional value. Below, I will introduce a medicinal recipe for snow frog. Let's learn it together.
【Ingredients for coconut green black bean stewed snow frog paste】
1 young coconut, 20 grams of black beans, 20 grams of lotus seeds, 10 grams of snow frog paste, 3 red dates, 2 slices of ginger, sugar as needed.
【Method for making coconut green black bean stewed snow frog paste】
1. Soak the snow frog paste in water for 5 hours, remove impurities and wash clean. Boil the snow frog paste and ginger slices in boiling water for 15 minutes, then remove, wash clean, and drain the water. Remove the ginger slices.
2. Wash the black beans and lotus seeds.
3. Remove the pits from the red dates and wash clean.
4. Boil the young coconut water, add black beans, lotus seeds, snow frog paste, red dates, boil for a while, and add sugar to taste.
5. Pour all the ingredients back into the coconut shell, cover it, and stew over high heat for 2 hours in a water bath.
【Suitable population for snow frog】
Diabetics and those with weak spleen and stomach should not consume it.