Shrimp

Taste: Sweet

Natural Attributes: Heavy, Oily, sticky

Tissue impact (Vipak): Sweet, nourishing 

Thermal impact (Virya): heating

Dosha impact: decrease Vata, increase Pitta and Kapha

Digestive impact (Agni): relatively hard to digest

Channels (Srotas): closes the channels

Feces: 

Urine: 

Strength (Bala): highly increases strength and immunity 

Mind (Manas): Rajasic

Effect: 

Chinese five element impact: 

Chinese medicine syndromes: strengthens Qi, Yang and Blood

Medicinal properties 

• Nourishment (rasa): gaining weight, lactation, parasites
• Blood-circulation-liver: blood stagnation
• Muscles:  flaccid muscles (especially the long muscles bordering the spine and those of the thighs and calves) 
• Reproductive and hormonal systems: fertility, low sexual energy
• Kidney-Bladder: kidney deficiencies

Harmful for: skin disorders marked with redness and inflammation, spermatorrhea.