Are river crabs cold in nature?

River crabs are naturally cold in nature, so pregnant women are not allowed to eat them during the entire pregnancy period, even in small amounts. Once ingested, it will have a great impact on the fetus in the womb and eventually cause threatened abortion. However, if you have less milk after giving birth, you can boil river crabs to improve this symptom.

River crabs belong to the family Crabidae, also known as weed crabs or small stone crabs. There are many types of crabs, including river crabs, lake crabs, sea crabs, large stone crabs, etc. River crabs are mostly used as medicine. River crabs are salty, cold in nature, and slightly poisonous. They have the effects of dispersing blood, repairing tendons and bones, and detoxifying lacquer; crab claws can induce labor.

1. Low milk supply after childbirth: Mash a river crab, add rice wine and cook until done. Take 1 dose daily.

2. Postpartum uterine incomplete contraction: burn river crabs to preserve their properties, grind them into powder, and take with warm yellow wine. Take 1.5-3 grams each time, 2-3 times a day.

3. Leucorrhea: roast the crab roe and grind it into fine powder. Take it with rice wine, 15g each time.

4. Postpartum swelling and pain in the labia and intestines: Mash 10 fresh crabs and apply them to the affected area, fix with adhesive tape, and change it after it dries.

5. To induce labor and expel dead fetus: 30-60 grams of crab claws and 9 grams of licorice, boil in water and add donkey-hide gelatin; or add rice wine or rice vinegar and boil together.

6. Low back pain, limb numbness, and paralysis: 9 grams of crab and 3 grams of seahorse, grind them into fine powder. Take in 2 doses, washed down with rice wine.

7. Lacquer sores: crabs, leeks. Put the above medicines in a pan and dry-fry them. Take the juice and apply it to the affected area. It will heal in about 3 days.

8. Frostbite ulcers that do not heal: Burn live crabs to preserve their essence, grind them into fine powder, mix with honey and apply to the affected area; or mix with sesame oil and apply. When applying, first boil radish and orange peel in water, and then use it to clean the affected area. Change twice a day.

9. Lacquer poisoning: Take an appropriate amount of river crab, mash it and apply it to the affected area.

10. Traumatic injuries: Take 1 large live crab (or 2 small ones), mash it raw, and drink it with hot wine.

11. Traumatic injuries, tendon and bone setting, blood stasis and swelling: ① For broken tendons, mash crab roe, stir-fry slightly, and apply to the injured area; ② For broken bones, mash crab roe, mix with hot wine, and apply the residue externally. Tie it up tightly. After half a day, you can hear a sound inside the bone, and it will be healed. Generally change it once a day, and 2-3 times a day in summer.

12. Chronic suppurative skin diseases, negative abscesses, lower limb ulcers, tuberculous fistulas that do not heal for a long time: 500 grams each of river crab, pit viper, and deer antler, burn them to preserve their nature, grind them into very fine powder (or make them into pills as big as red beans with refined honey), and take them with rice wine or warm water. Take 1.5-3 grams each time, twice a day. [3]