Eating fish for health has many benefits, but there are rules to follow and taboos to be aware of. Do you know what foods the nine common types of fish should not be eaten with? Let's find out more.
Sweet and Sour Carp
1. Carp
Carp has functions such as strengthening the spleen and whetting the appetite, promoting urination and reducing swelling, relieving coughs and calming asthma, calming the fetus and promoting lactation, and clearing heat and detoxifying.
It can provide the human body with essential amino acids, minerals, vitamins A and D, and contains more unsaturated fatty acids, which can lower cholesterol and prevent arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease. Therefore, carp is suitable for people with edema, dropsy, and cardiovascular diseases.
Taboos: People suffering from malignant tumors, lymphatic tuberculosis, lupus erythematosus, asthma, mumps, thromboangiitis obliterans, carbuncles and sores, urticaria, skin eczema and other diseases should avoid eating it. People with a naturally excessive yang constitution and those sores and ulcers should eat it with caution. Carp should not be eaten with mung beans, taro, cattle and sheep oil, pork liver, chicken, schizonepeta, licorice, pumpkin, dog meat, or pickles.
2. Pomfret
Its nature and flavor are sweet, neutral, and bland. It has the effects of replenishing qi and nourishing blood, tonifying the stomach and benefiting essence, lubricating joints, and softening muscles and strengthening bones. It is especially suitable for people with indigestion, spleen deficiency and diarrhea, anemia, and soreness in the muscles and bones.
Taboos: Patients with pruritic skin diseases should avoid eating it. Furthermore, its roe is toxic and cannot be eaten. Also, pomfret should not be fried with beef or mutton oil.
Pan-fried Sea Bass
3. Catfish
Eating catfish with red dates can cause hair loss.
Catfish should not be eaten with beef liver or beef. If consumed by mistake and causes discomfort, human milk can be used as an antidote. The "Tu Jing Ben Cao" records: "It cannot be eaten with beef liver, as it causes wind, excessive phlegm, and choking." It is common for children to drool and grind their teeth in their sleep. Traditional Chinese medicine believes this is due to stomach heat or parasites in the body, and Chinese medicine is very effective. We always remind parents that during the treatment period, their children should not eat catfish or beef. I have never heard of any feedback on what happens after eating it. No parent would knowingly break this rule, so we have never been able to find an example of the consequences.
4. Mandarin Fish
Its nature and flavor are sweet and neutral. It is suitable for people with weak constitution, emaciation from chronic illness, deficiency of spleen and stomach qi, poor appetite, and malnutrition.
Taboos: People with excessive cold and dampness in the body, those with hemoptysis, and asthma patients should not eat mandarin fish.
Stewed Soft-shelled Turtle
5. Soft-shelled Turtle
Eating soft-shelled turtle with amaranth can cause vomiting, abdominal pain, and enlargement of the liver and spleen. The "Jin Gui Yao Lue" states: "The meat of turtles and soft-shelled turtles should not be eaten with amaranth." The Qing dynasty physician Wu Qian said: "Turtles and soft-shelled turtles are both contrary to amaranth. If eaten together, it will surely cause 'bie jia' (turtle tumor)." 'Bie jia' is equivalent to what is now called enlargement of the liver and spleen.
Soft-shelled turtle should not be eaten with oranges: Oranges contain more fruit acid. When eaten with soft-shelled turtle, which is rich in protein, the fruit acid can coagulate with the protein, affecting protein absorption.
Soft-shelled turtle should not be eaten with chicken or duck eggs. "Jin Gui Yao Lue - Taboos on Birds, Beasts, Fish, and Insects": "Its meat should not be eaten with chicken or duck eggs." Eating it can cause a cold sensation in the body, and it is especially not suitable for people with a cold and deficient constitution.
Soft-shelled turtle should not be eaten with pork, rabbit meat, duck meat, or mustard. Sun Simiao pointed out: "It should not be eaten with pork, rabbit, or duck meat, as it harms people. It should not be eaten with mustard seeds, as it causes sores."
6. Silver Carp
It can warm the middle burner, replenish qi, warm the stomach, and moisten the skin. It is a health food for warming the middle burner and replenishing qi. It is suitable for people with a cold and deficient spleen and stomach constitution, loose stools, and dry skin. It can also be used for the symptom of insufficient lactation caused by deficiency of spleen and stomach qi after childbirth.
Taboos: People with heat accumulation in the spleen and stomach should not eat silver carp. In addition, people with colds and fever, oral ulcers, constipation, pruritic skin diseases, urticaria, and tinea should avoid eating silver carp.
Steamed Grass Carp
7. Grass Carp
It can whet the appetite, nourish the body, warm the stomach and harmonize the middle burner, lower liver yang, expel wind, treat bi-syndrome, stop malaria, benefit the intestines and brighten the eyes. It is very suitable for people who are thin and have poor appetite. It is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, which is beneficial to blood circulation and is a good food for patients with cardiovascular diseases. It is rich in selenium, and regular consumption has anti-aging and beauty effects, and also has a certain preventive effect on tumors.
Taboos: It should not be eaten in excess, as excessive consumption can easily cause sores and ulcers. In addition, women are prone to fatigue and edema symptoms during their menstrual period when eating grass carp.
8. Crucian Carp
Its nature and flavor are sweet and warm. It has functions such as replenishing qi and strengthening the spleen, promoting urination to reduce swelling, clearing heat and detoxifying, unblocking the collaterals and promoting lactation. The fat in crucian carp is beneficial for cardiovascular function and can also reduce blood viscosity and promote blood circulation.
Taboos: It cannot be used with Ophiopogon japonicus or Adenophora stricta. It should not be eaten with garlic, sugar, mustard, Adenophora stricta, honey, pork liver, chicken, pheasant, or deer meat. People with a yang-deficient constitution and those with internal heat cannot eat it, as it easily generates heat and causes sores and ulcers. It should not be eaten in large amounts during a cold with fever.
Braised Yellow Croaker
9. Yellow Croaker
Its nature and flavor are sweet and neutral. It can strengthen the spleen and replenish qi, whet the appetite and promote digestion. It is rich in protein, trace elements, and vitamins, and has a good tonic effect on the human body.
Yellow croaker is rich in protein, trace elements, and vitamins. It can remove free radicals produced by human metabolism, delay aging, and has a preventive effect on various cancers. Especially for people with a weak constitution and the elderly, eating yellow croaker will have a very good therapeutic effect.
Taboos: People with poor appetite and much phlegm, asthma patients, people with an allergic constitution, and those who are overweight and have internal heat should eat it with caution. At the same time, yellow croaker cannot be eaten with the Chinese medicine schizonepeta or buckwheat, and should not be fried with beef or mutton oil.
Steamed grass carp
sweet and sour carp
Stewed turtle
The Golden Bell Mask
Fried noodles