The Far Eastern trepang is an invertebrate creature belonging to the type of echinoderms. It lives in the eastern seas. The appearance of trepangs is not very attractive and somewhat reminds worms with spikes, but they are very useful.
Far Eastern sea cucumbers exist for more than 500 million years. These creatures have one amazing feature - regeneration. So, if it is divided into two parts, then six months later the trepang will be fully restored.
What does it look like
Trepang has a slightly flattened, elongated body with a maximum length of 44 cm, a width of 9 cm. Weight can reach one and a half kilograms. The color of the creature can be different - from greenish yellow to dark brown. Moreover, the color of the back is darker than the abdominal part. The mouth of the Far Eastern trepang is slightly shifted to the ventral side and is surrounded by rings of tentacles.
The sexual maturity of an individual occurs in the second year of life, and all trepang lives up to eleven years.
Habitat
The creature lives in the northern part of the East China, Yellow Seas, almost on the entire coast of the Sea of Japan, off the east coast of Japan. Trepangs are also found in the Sea of Okhotsk, in the coastal zones of the Kuril Islands, near Sakhalin. You can meet the creature at depths from the edge to 100 or more meters.
Trepang in oriental medicine
In Chinese medicine, Far Eastern trepang has been used since ancient times. In the sixteenth century, this creature was used to treat a variety of diseases. The Emperor of China believed that the use of infusions rejuvenates the body, granting longevity, which means that he will be able to rule for a long time.
Means made from trepang helped even hopelessly sick people to get on their feet. The Chinese attribute this creature to miraculous sources of vitality.
Features
The properties of the Far Eastern trepang allow it to be used to treat a wide variety of diseases.
Scientists conducted a series of experiments that showed that this creature contains 40 elements from the periodic table, which are necessary for the normalization of metabolic processes in the human body, as well as promoting the production of hormones and enzymes. Also, the creature contains an almost complete set of water-soluble vitamins, valuable biologically active substances. A similar composition does not have any organism on our planet.
Benefit
As you can see in the photo, the Far Eastern trepang does not look very attractive, although it gives the most healthy meat. It contains proteins, fats, vitamins: B12, riboflavin, thiamine, etc. Also in meat there are many useful elements: magnesium, phosphorus, iodine, manganese, copper, iron and not only. Fat contains phosphatides and unsaturated fatty acids.
Various preparations are obtained from trepang: they make honey tinctures, cover with a coal rash and dry, make extracts. Meat is consumed in food, preparing various dishes.
The benefits of honey tincture
Far East trepang on honey is especially appreciated. Applying tincture in courses, you can not only increase the body's immunity, but also get sustainable protection against viral and bacterial infections. Also, the drug has the following properties:
- helps to heal oncological diseases - due to the constituent substances, the drug stops the growth of malignant cells;
- normalizes blood pressure, functions of the cardiovascular system;
- helps lower cholesterol, blood sugar;
- treats bronchitis, tuberculosis, pneumonia and other pathologies of the respiratory system;
- normalizes the work of the gastrointestinal tract, eliminates pathologies;
- increases visual acuity;
- has a stimulating effect on mental activity, calms;
- helps fight impotence;
- cleanses the body, removing toxins and toxins;
- it has a positive effect on bone pathologies, injuries, accelerating the process of bone fusion;
- accelerates regeneration processes - helps to heal any skin lesions faster;
- eliminates inflammation of the oral cavity.
Useful properties of Far Eastern sea cucumber on honey affect the appearance of a person. The tool not only heals internal organs and systems, but also helps to rejuvenate the face - after applying honey tincture, the face becomes fresh, healthy.
Cooking tincture
For treatment with Far Eastern trepang, you can use a ready-made tincture of honey or prepare it yourself.
Finding a finished high-quality product is difficult, it is easier to make it yourself. For this, fresh or dried trepangs are used.
To prepare the drug from a fresh creature, it is necessary to stand it in water for some time, and then extract all the insides. The prepared carcass is washed, cut into small pieces. All ingredients are placed in a glass container and filled to the top with honey. The composition is infused for two months in a dark, cool place. After that, the product is filtered and bottled in containers.
You can make a tincture of dried sea cucumber. To do this, the meat is soaked for several hours in water. The further technique does not differ from that used in the preparation of a preparation from fresh carcasses.
Contraindications
Tincture is a natural product that has no harm. It is recommended to use it not only for adults, but also for children.
The instructions for the use of the Far Eastern trepang on honey include contraindications. This tool can not be used for those who suffer from an allergic reaction to honey and other beekeeping products, as well as for individual intolerance to sea cucumber. Caution should be taken with trepang for those who suffer from hypotension, since the meat of this creature can lower blood pressure.
Doctors do not recommend taking trepang in any form for those who suffer from hyperthyroidism.
How to use
For the treatment and prevention of pathologies, honey tincture is taken in courses of thirty days with an interval of 20 days. The drug is taken in a tablespoon twenty minutes before eating. Use tincture 1-2 times a day.
Alcohol tincture
In addition to honey tincture, you can prepare medicine for alcohol. The resulting product helps to get rid of a variety of ailments, and it is also ideal for external use in skin pathologies.
To make tincture, you need alcohol 70%, but vodka 40% is quite suitable. Tincture is made from fresh trepangs. First, they are soaked in seawater, then gutted, washed. Then the carcasses are placed in a container and filled with alcohol so that the ratio of trepangs and alcohol is 1 to 2. The container is tightly closed. The agent is infused for three weeks with periodic stirring.
The finished product is taken in the morning once a day up to 50 drops, depending on the weight of the person. The composition can be used as a wound healing and disinfecting agent.
Tincture for alcohol and honey
To prepare tinctures for alcohol and honey, one hundred grams of dried trepang is taken - this is 1.5-2 kg of fresh, placed in a glass container and poured with boiled cold water. The meat is soaked for twelve hours. Then the water is drained, and the carcass is finely chopped. Ready slices of sea cucumber are poured with 40% alcohol - for one hundred grams of meat you will need 0.5 liters of alcohol. The tool is infused in a dark, cool place for three weeks. Keep the finished product in the refrigerator for no more than a year.
From the finished alcohol tincture, you can make honey-alcohol. To do this, the liquid is drained and mixed in equal proportions with honey. The composition is insisted day, allowing honey to dissolve.
Other recipes
In the east, they say about the Far Eastern trepang, which is a unique tool that gives youth and excellent health. There are tinctures for alcohol and honey, which can be found in Japan, China, where they are very popular. In Russia, such drugs are very expensive, but they can be prepared independently.
To prepare the product, you need to take fresh trepangs, soak them and gut them. Then the meat is cut into thin rings, a width of not more than 1 cm. Then the meat is poured with vodka in a ratio of 1: 2. The remedy is infused for three weeks in a dark, cool place. Shake the product daily. After 21 days, honey is added to the tincture in a 1: 1 ratio with the resulting alcoholic infusion. All mix well until the honey is completely dissolved. Take a teaspoon once a day before lunch. The duration of the course is 1 month. Then they take a ten-day break and repeat the course.
People who have experienced the healing properties of sea cucumbers continue to take it as often as possible, because this is a rare, scarce product. Due to its small distribution, cultivation of the Far Eastern trepang began. You can watch an interesting and useful video about this process.
The use of trepang
An extract of the Far Eastern trepang and other means from it help with a breakdown. The meat is able to increase metabolism, enhance digestion, regulates intestinal motility, normalizes the work of the stomach, liver, pancreas.
Sea cucumber is good for diabetes. The substances included in its composition help to remove toxins from the body, ammonia. This seafood is indicated for cirrhosis of the liver, hepatitis.
With the use of sea ginseng (as it is called in China), the work of the heart can change, because of which it may be necessary to replenish the accompanying substances.
The consumption of trepang tinctures has a positive effect on the musculoskeletal system, as it helps to accelerate bone fusion, and also positively affects the body with radiculitis.
With skin pathologies, wounds, trepang helps accelerate tissue regeneration. Also, hoods and tinctures help resolve scars, remove adhesions, and promote the healing of trophic ulcers. Seafood helps with purulent wounds, boils, mastitis, they treat burns and frostbite.
From tinctures make solutions for rinsing the oral cavity.
Alcohol tinctures have a pronounced effect, so in most cases they are used in the morning and no more than fifteen drops, but there are exceptions (it depends on what pathology is treated and what the patient’s weight is).
When used correctly, trepang helps to normalize the work of the heart, reducing the amplitude and increasing the compression force, thereby eliminating bradycardia.
The drug has a positive effect on immunity, as it contains a lot of micro and macro elements, vitamins.
Where does the sea cucumber live?
The largest populations of sea cucumber live off the coast of Sakhalin, Korea, and Japan. It can also be found at the Kuril Islands, in the Gulf of Peter the Great, near the island of Kyushu.
Trepang prefers warm, shallow places, likes to hide in thickets of algae under mussels or in the upper layers of silt. In the afternoon he rises to the surface of the water. On hot days, the creature descends to a depth of 150 meters.
Characteristic
As can be seen in the photo, the Far Eastern trepang looks more like a worm: it will be flattened from the sides and can reach 40 cm in length. Its body consists of two parts: on the one hand are the mouth and tentacles, with which it scoops up the upper layers of sediment and sends it into the mouth all microorganisms contained in it. The second part is the exit, i.e. the anus. These parts are interconnected by the intestines. This type of structure is called reduced. In fact, nature left the most significant organs, and the rest disappeared.
If the sea cucumber is divided into three parts, then the extreme ones immediately begin to crawl on their own, and the middle one lies a little and also begins to crawl. Gradually, all three parts become independent individuals, and after 2-6 months, each of them becomes a full-fledged large individual.
On the back of the trepang are conical growths located in four rows. On the abdomen there are small legs that allow the cucumber to move along the bottom. His movements are somewhat reminiscent of the movement of a caterpillar.
Trepang eats microorganisms, plankton, pieces of algae. Food that enters the mouth moves through the intestines, where nutrients are absorbed. Then all the excess goes through the anus. In search of food, sea cucumbers go at night or in the afternoon, and in the morning they sleep. In winter and autumn, individuals almost do not eat, and with the beginning of spring, their appetite wakes up and does not subside until mid-summer.