Yuhwang-ori

Yuhwang ori(유황오리) is a traditional Korean dish, made of duck raised with special sulfur.

Main ingredients

Yuhwang(유황) and Ori(오리) are Korean word. Yuhwang is a mineral medicine, made by melting natural sulfur after removing unuseful things. Yuhwang is used to cure diseases like diarrhea or hemorrhoid that are caused by cold stomach. Ori means duck in English.

Recipe

Because Yuhwang is element that has strong toxicity, most of birds die after breathing Yuhwang gas even a little. It is hard to find animal that can live after eating Yuhwang, except duck. Especially, duck have strong detoxification ability. By feeding Yuhwang to duck, Yuhwang's toxicity disappears remaining its good components. Duck has great resistance in disease and ability of adapt. So it was used in invigoratant to human since long times ago, because of its good nature of a medicine.[1]

Nutrition and health

Yuhwang ori has been eaten in folk remedies since very long times ago.[2] Yuhwang can keep the body warm, and make bones stronger. However, Yuhwang is hard to be used in medicine, because of its toxicity. To people, eating Yuhwang ori can prevent stroke, high blood-pressure, anemia and so on. Yuhwang ori can lower cholesterol rate in our body and can be a great medicine for stroke and circulatory system disease.[3] If we feed Yuhwang that have warm temper to duck which have cold-water temper, the synergism effect occurs by neutralisation of Yuhwang and duck's detoxification. And highest detoxification and medicine effect come up. That's why Yuhwang ori has prevention and cure on cancer, infection, backache, neuralgia, arthritis, rheumatism, high blood-pressure, hardening of arteries, stroke, blood circulation and so on. Yuhwang ori has 6 times more protein than rice and 3.35 times more vitamin than chicken. Because Yuhwang ori contains plenty of vitamin C and vitamin B, it can improve stamina, prevent decline of concentration and drive out chronic fatigue.[4] In addition, recent scientists found that duck meat have alkalinity and its oil has linoleic acid(essential fatty acid for human), which means that Yuhwang ori makes blood flow smoothly and lower cholesterol rate in the body[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ The Chosun Ilbo(Weekly Chosun) 1996/10/17
  2. ↑ JoongAng Ilbo 1994/3/11
  3. ↑ Sports Chosun 1998/2/21
  4. ↑ The Chosun Ilbo(Weekly Chosun) 1996/10/17
  5. ↑ JoongAng Ilbo 1994/3/11
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