Sea cucumber is not only one kind of slap-up feed, but also one kind of complement health care products. In Supplement to Compendium of Materia Medica, there was the description: sea cucumber is warm and complement, it can be compared with gen-seng so its name is sea cucumber; it has many good characteristics such as tiny salty, nourish kidney, benefit kernel, eliminate flaccid paralysis, clear urine, enforce male genitals and kill boil disease. According to Recipe of Suixiju, it is better to eat sea cucumber with ham or stew pork and hotpot for women of post partum, person after disease, old person or emaciation people.
Sea cucumber has abundant nourishment, high proteid and no cholesterin. Dried sea-cucumber contains 60~75% of proteid, 0.9~1.1% of fat, 0.15% of carbohydrate; except these, it also contains some calcium, iron, nicotinic acid, lactoflavin, sulfur propylhomoserin, iodine and the quantity of iodine is 6000mcg/kg. The proteid contained in sea cucumber is the water-solubility proteid and is easy for people to absorb.
Medically, sea cucumber has many functions such as nourish kidney and enforce male genitals, invigorating qi and invigorating yin, clear intestines and moistening. It can be used to cure deficiency of the kidney, impotence, distress in the loins, pain in leg, constipation due to intestinal dryness, neurasthenic, palingenesis anemia and diabetes etc. The chondroitin sulfuric acid contained in sea cucumber has the function of strengthen the body, anti-dote, restrain the pervasion of tumour. The acidic mucopolysaccharide element in sea cucumber is the matter of organizing body artery dense cirrhosis, rehabbing old myocardial infarction; has the function of anticoagulation, reducing blood fat and the viscosity of blood plasma; the sufferer in convalescence of cerebral thrombosis and miocardial infarction and the sufferer of ischemic heart disease have obvious dependency on it.
