Snails as Medicine Injuries

When the rainy season, usually these animals are often found crawling on banana trees, on walls & in the shady garden with trees. These animals breed quickly, because four times bertelor gigantic numbers. The first impression was this beast dirty & disgusting, but apparently in some areas is widely used as animal wound closure marks new weapons & the like, before closing the wound gel & liquid antiseptic with a variety of brands on the market.

How, then issued a snail slime smeared on the wound. It turned out that only require to wait some time, wound drain blood that had been closed & the meeting did not bleed anymore.

Research on the effectiveness of snail mucus in wound healing ever conducted by the Bogor Institute of Agriculture, stating that wounds on the backs of mice that snail mucus was smeared faster closing of the injuries in mice that are not smeared with snail slime. Observations of tissue at the wound under a microscope showed wound closure & unification of the skin tissue takes place more quickly in mice treated.

In a study revealed that the mucus produced by glands in the body wall of snails, as well as lymph flowing substances in the body of snails having clotting activity as well as the eradication of bacteria & foreign objects. Probably the same parts that function in wound closure.

Meanwhile, other information sources indicate, the protein contained about 12 grams per 100 grams of meat. Another is the fat content of 1%, 2% carbohydrate, 237 mg calcium, phosphorus 78 mg, one.7 mg Fe as well as B complex vitamins, vitamin B2.

In Kediri, East Java, snail meat was not a familiar food. Satay & peanut brittle snail snail snail chips are widely consumed & has even produced in gigantic quantities. Perhaps thing that makes some people love the snail meat is the content of snail meat in nutritional value, even some people have began to have an interest in developing & utilizing snails.
Creswell & Kopiang (1981) detailing the chemical composition of snails, it turns the meat is rich in protein. Snail shells are rich in calcium, & the meat is still there's lots of amino acids.

Besides amino acid content of snail meat is prominent. In 100 grams of dried snail meat among others consisted of four.62 g leucine, lysine four.35 g, arginine four.88 g, four.98 g aspartic acid, glutamic acid & 8.16 gr.

In addition to containing high nutritional value, also reported that in the snail meat contained the bacteria salmonella. But there's methods to get rid of the bacteria, the correct processing techniques.

Based on experience in Kediri breeder snail, snail meat yield about 15-18%. That is, for every 100 kg of fresh snails (alive) would get around 15-18 kilograms of snail meat.

To get nice results, snail meat has to go through six stages of processing:

one. Pemberakan or cleaning dirt. Snails surviving inserted in to the tank for four days, without any fed. Do watering every evening. Pemberakan aims to spur spending dirt & slime & removing musty smell.

four. Immersion. After done pemberakan, snails soaked in saltwater with a tiny vinegar. Soaking takes about 5-10 minutes, stirring or dikopyok, then water is removed. Soaking is done 3-4 times until water becomes clear marinade.

four. Preliminary boiling. Snails that have been soaked put in boiling water for 15 minutes while inverted back, & then cooled.

four. Separation. Snails that have been boiled earlier it ought to be separated between the shells, feces, eggs & meat. The trick is to poke the meat snail from its shell with a pick. After the meat, eggs & feces of snails out of their shells & then separated. Snail eggs can be immediately washed out, fried & eaten. While the meat is still require further processing.

6. Immersion. Meat that has been washed, soaked in vinegar water for 15 minutes.

four. Laundering. Snail meat that has been separated from the shell, then washed. Better if the washing is done with jogging water.

7. Boiling finish. Snail meat that has been soaked it boiled again for 15 minutes. After the boil, four times again thoroughly washed & sliced according to our tastes.

This snail meat that has been prepared to be cooked.