What are the effects and functions of dog meat? Who are the people who should avoid eating dog meat?

Dog meat is one of the most nutritious meats. There are many recipes using dog meat as an ingredient. Eating dog meat can not only supplement the various nutrients needed by the human body, but dog meat also has certain therapeutic value. Although the nutritional value and therapeutic value of dog meat are very high, the dietary taboos of dog meat also need to be paid attention to. Let’s follow editor Feng Chao to look at the nutritional value and efficacy of dog meat , and who are the people who cannot eat dog meat!

The efficacy and role of dog meat

protein

The main component of dog meat is protein, which can provide the human body with the necessary protein to meet the needs of daily activities. It is particularly important to point out that the proportion of globulin in dog meat is relatively large, which can enhance the body's disease resistance and the activity of immune cells, and has a good health-care effect.

Fat

Every 100 grams of dog meat contains 20.2 grams of fat, which can provide 1,100 kilojoules of calories to the human body. This is why people always like to eat dog meat in the cold winter.

Vitamins

There are not many types of vitamins in dog meat, including vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B3, vitamin C, etc., which are also indispensable nutrients for the human body.

Trace Elements

The trace elements in dog meat include calcium, iron, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, etc., which can strengthen bones and prevent iron deficiency anemia.

What are the effects and functions of dog meat?

1. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that dog meat is sweet, warm and salty in nature, and enters the spleen, stomach and kidney meridians; it has the effects of warming the spleen and stomach, nourishing the kidneys and yang, strengthening strength and replenishing blood.

2. Dog meat has the effect of warming and nourishing the kidney yang. It is effective for patients with kidney yang deficiency, impotence and premature ejaculation. It can be used for symptoms such as cold pain in the waist and knees, clear and long urination, frequent urination, edema, deafness, etc. caused by kidney yang deficiency; it can warm and nourish the spleen and stomach, and is used for symptoms such as abdominal distension, cold pain in the abdomen caused by insufficient spleen and stomach yang.

3. Eating dog meat can strengthen people's physique, improve digestion ability, promote blood circulation and improve sexual function.

4. Dog meat can also be used to treat weakness in the elderly, such as incomplete urination, cold limbs, lack of energy, etc. Eating it regularly in winter can help the elderly enhance their ability to resist the cold.

Which groups of people are not suitable to eat dog meat?

1. Patients with cerebrovascular disease should avoid eating dog meat: It is harmful to the body for patients with cerebrovascular disease to eat dog meat. Because patients with cerebrovascular disease generally have arteriosclerosis and hypertension. Dog meat is very hot and nutritious. Eating it will increase blood pressure and even cause cerebral blood vessel rupture and bleeding. Therefore, people who suffer from cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases should never eat dog meat. In order to avoid inducing more serious conditions, people with hypertension and heart disease should avoid it.

2. Patients with hemoptysis should avoid eating dog meat: Dog meat is warm in nature and is a warm and yang-boosting food. Patients with hemoptysis should not eat it. It is also important to note that patients with dysentery should avoid eating it, so as to avoid aggravating the dysentery and being detrimental to gastrointestinal health.

3. Measles patients should avoid eating dog meat: dog meat is warm in nature, and eating it can easily cause "fever, fire, phlegm and thirst." "Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Eating dog meat after a fever can kill people." Therefore, measles patients should not eat dog meat. In order to avoid worsening of the inflammation condition, it may also induce worsening of measles.

4. Patients with oral ulcers should avoid eating dog meat: Dog meat is warm in nature and sweet in taste. It is a warm tonic food. Eating too much can easily cause "fever and fire". If patients with oral ulcers eat it, it may induce severe inflammation and aggravate the condition, which is harmful to health, so it must be taken seriously.