The shell is slightly triangular in shape, and the interior is porcelain white. Native to Japan, but also distributed in Korean Peninsula, Chinese mainland and Taiwan Province Province. There are cultured meretrix meretrix on the beach on the southwest coast of Taiwan Province Province. Most of them live in the sandy seabed of shallow sea, and like to live in rivers and wetlands, intertidal zones with fresh water injection and other areas. If you want to buy clams, you should choose closed shells and knock on each other. Clams with crisp sounds are fresher.
Flesh of Meretrix meretridae. Clam is also called flower clam, yellow clam and sea clam. Distributed in the coastal areas of China. After getting it, take the meat and wash it.
Steamed eggs with clams are very fresh.
Sweet, salty and slightly cold. It has functions and uses similar to those of clams for nourishing yin, softening and resolving hard mass. In addition, the tissue extract of Meretrix meretrix has a high inhibitory rate on Ehrlich's tumor, ascites liver cancer and solid liver cancer. It can be used interchangeably. Boil soup or cook food. Meretrix meretrix is not only delicious and nutritious, but also has high therapeutic and medicinal value. Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica says that it can cure "sores, furuncles, toxic swelling, removing lumps and relieving alcoholism". Modern research also shows that Meretrix meretrix has the functions of clearing away heat, promoting diuresis, resolving phlegm and resolving hard mass, has obvious inhibitory effect on liver cancer, and has obvious curative effect on asthma, chronic tracheitis, goiter, lymphadenopathy and other diseases. Edible clam has the functions of moistening five internal organs, quenching thirst, strengthening spleen and stomach, treating red eye and increasing emulsification, and is deeply loved by diners at home and abroad. It is said that people began to eat clams two or three thousand years ago. Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty once ate clam in Suzhou when he went down to the south of the Yangtze River, and called it "the freshest in the world". Since then, this nickname has spread to this day and is famous all over the world.
Clam shell has the function of nourishing yin and promoting diuresis. Antipyretic drugs such as clam powder, indigo naturalis and Scutellaria baicalensis can be used to treat chronic tracheitis and asthma. Meretrix meretrix powder can also be ground with Borneolum Syntheticum and dried Alumen for external use to treat otitis media. Sihai Shuyu Pill, which consists of clam powder, seaweed, conch and cuttlebone, is suitable for the treatment of thyroid cancer and has achieved certain curative effect. The disease is suitable for those with pathogenic heat and phlegm heat, and those with qi deficiency and cold should not eat clams.