Lamb, warm in nature. Lamb has several types, such as goat meat, mutton, and wild lamb. Because lamb is warm and hot in nature, eating it often can easily cause internal heat. Therefore, when eating lamb, it can be paired with some cool vegetables to have a cooling, detoxifying, and heat-reducing effect.
The Benefits of Lamb
1. Tonifying the Spleen and Stomach
Used to treat symptoms such as nausea, physical weakness, and aversion to cold caused by spleen and stomach deficiency and cold.
2. Tonifying the Liver and Kidneys
Used to treat symptoms such as soreness and weakness in the waist and knees, cold and pain, and impotence caused by kidney yang deficiency.
3. Nourishing Blood and Warming the Channels
Used to treat symptoms such as cold and pain in the abdomen caused by postpartum blood deficiency and cold in the channels.
4. Protecting the Gastric Mucosa
Lamb can protect the gastric wall, increase the secretion of digestive enzymes, and help digestion.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that lamb also has the function of tonifying the kidneys and strengthening yang, which is suitable for men to eat regularly. The whole lamb is a treasure.
Lamb is an excellent dietary therapy and health care product. Lamb, lamb blood, lamb bones, lamb liver, lamb milk, lamb bile, etc. can be used for the treatment of various diseases and have high medicinal value.
5. Nourishing the Liver and Brightening the Eyes
Lamb has the effect of nourishing blood, tonifying the liver, and brightening the eyes, which has a good effect on treating postpartum anemia, tuberculosis, night blindness, cataracts, glaucoma, etc.
Compared with cow milk, sheep milk is richer in fat and protein, making it an ideal food for patients with kidney disease and a natural supplement for those who are physically weak.
Methods for Selecting Lamb
1. Color
Mutton is dark red in color, with fine and soft muscle fibers and white fat between the muscles, which is hard and crispy.
Goat meat is lighter in color than mutton, with subcutaneous fat, and more fat in the abdomen, which has a gamy taste.
2. Condition of the Wool
The shape of the wool that has not been removed from the meat. The wool of mutton is curly, while the wool of goat meat is straight and hard.
3. Ribs
The ribs of mutton are narrow and short, while the ribs of goat meat are wide and long.
Lamb Should Not Be Consumed with Vinegar
Lamb is warm and hot in nature, and has the effects of tonifying qi, tonifying deficiency, warming the middle, and tonifying the kidneys and strengthening yang.
Vinegar is warm in nature and has the functions of appetizing, promoting blood circulation, and sterilizing. The protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, acetic acid, lactic acid, succinic acid, and other organic acids it contains have a better effect when paired with cold foods, but not suitable to be paired with lamb and other warm and hot foods.
The combination of lamb and vinegar not only weakens the therapeutic effects of both, but also produces harmful substances to the human body.
