Effect –

Oyster has high absorbing power of digestion, so it has been used to restore physical strength after anemia and liver trouble since ancient times. Shells of oyster have special effects on liver, stomach and headache etc, so it is eaten by deccting by making powder. And it has effect on nervous breakdown and excessive sweating.

Oyster is very beneficial to woman, too. It has ingredients to dissolve melanin pigment and vitamin A, so it makes white and soft skin. It is written in “Donguibogam” that “Oyster is the most valuable thing among foods from sea and it is fragrant and makes skin beautiful and makes good complexion.” Like old saying that “Daughter of fisherman who takes boat is dark and daughter of fisherman who pick oysters is fair”, so oyster is effective food for the people who want fair skin. In addition, it is delightful food for the women who are suffering with anemia. It contains iron, zinc, phosphorous and calcium whith has hemotogenous functions, so it is effective to recover tiredness. There are many people who avoid oysters due to reason with cholesterol, of course it is true that oyster has more cholesterol than pork or mayo, but like most of protein foods which is good to human, cholesterol of oyster is unsaturated fatty acid. That is, it is different from saturated fatty acids which induce arteriosclerosis. Rather, it makes blood clean for oyster is alkalescent food.

For its soft and and good plate, oyster has been loved from many people in the world during centuries and Western people who do not enjoy raw things, but they eat oyster in raw status by sprinkling lemon juice slightly. One of the haute cuisine in France is to eat raw oyster on the half-shell, so it is worldly famous.

There is a western proverb of EAT OYSTER, LOVE LONGER.