The difference between pig ginseng and sea cucumber

1. Different morphological characteristics

Pig Poshen: it is large, with a smooth surface and no thorns, with a row of thick thorns on both sides of its abdomen, which are similar to the nipples of sows, and the fresh pig Poshen is named because it is large and looks like a piglet lying on the bottom of the sea from a distance.

sea cucumber: the body is cylindrical, with a length of 1 ~ 2cm, and the extra-large one can reach 3cm, with dark color and many stings. Tentacles are wheel-shaped, 17 ~ 3, generally 2. Touch and hand jars are well developed. Sea cucumber thrived on the earth earlier than primitive fish, and began to exist in Precambrian about 6 million years ago. It is the earliest living biological species and is known as the living marine fossil.

sea cucumber

pig-woman ginseng

2. Different distribution ranges

pig-woman ginseng: There are many places of origin of pig-woman ginseng, mainly distributed in Australia, South Pacific island countries, the east coast of Africa, Southeast Asia and other countries, among which Australian pig-woman ginseng is the best, followed by Africa and South Pacific island countries, followed by Southeast Asian countries.

sea cucumber: USA, Alaska, Japan, Iceland and China.

3. Different nutritional values

Pig Poshen: Pig Poshen has high nutrition and good taste. The high-grade wedding banquet in Guangdong is made of pig Poshen, which is also the raw material of sea cucumber in the famous dish Fotiao wall. The dried ginseng is white and yellow in color after soaking, and the meat is soft and smooth; It can tonify kidney, replenish essence, nourish blood and lower blood pressure.

It has certain curative effects on hypertension and coronary heart disease, hemorrhoid elimination, gastric ulcer treatment and cancer prevention. It can nourish yin and tonify kidney, strengthen yang and warm up, and has a good dietotherapy effect on patients with hypercholesterolemia and diabetes, middle-aged and elderly people. Especially married women need to replenish blood, which is necessary for fertility or postpartum tonic and health care. < P > Sea cucumber: sweet and salty in taste, tonifying kidney, benefiting essence, absorbing urine, strengthening yang and treating impotence, and its nature is warm and nourishing, so it is named sea cucumber. Sea cucumber has the functions of improving memory, delaying gonadal aging, preventing arteriosclerosis and anti-tumor.

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