The efficacy and function of blue scale fish

The Chinese medicinal material green scale fish is a very good Chinese medicinal material. Green scale fish has a very good effect in regulating the body and is also widely used in medicine. Let’s take a look together.

【English name】 Harengula;Pilchard

[Alias] Qingpi, willow leaf fish, Qinglin, Qingpizi, Liuyeqing

[Source] Medicinal material source: the meat of the blue-scaled fish of the herring family and its closely related species.

[Original form] The body of the blue-scaled fish is flattened and oblong, generally 10-12cm long, and the largest can reach 15cm. The head is short, the top of the head is relatively flat, the snout is shorter than or equal to the diameter of the eyes, the eyes are large, located laterally and upward, and have a lipid membrane. The mouth is small, positioned anteriorly and superiorly, with the lower jaw slightly longer than the upper jaw. The premaxilla is small, the maxilla is broad, and the lower edge is finely serrated. There are fine teeth on the maxilla, palate and tongue. Gill openings large, gill rakers slender 48-57. The round scales are large and thin, with 42-44 scales in vertical rows and 12-14 scales in horizontal rows. Ventral margin serrated scales (17-18) + (13-14). The back is slightly convex, with 17-19 dorsal fins. Anal fin 20-22. There are 17 pectoral fins, located at the bottom. The ventral margin is highly curved and the pelvic fins are significantly smaller than the pectoral fins. The caudal fin is deeply forked. The dorsal side of the body is green and the ventral side is silvery white. There is a black spot behind the gill cover.

[Habitat distribution] Ecological environment: It is a small warm-water mid-layer fish that feeds on plankton and lives in the coastal areas. The spawning period in the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea is from May to June, and the spawning ground is a muddy seabed.

[Chemical composition] Bluefish contains butyric acid, trimethylamine, 2-methyl-propanal, propanal, acetaldehyde, etc.

【Nature and flavor】 Sweet; Light; Warm

【Meridian】 Heart meridian

【Functions and indications】Detoxification. Main sea snake bite; waist fire dan

【Usage and Dosage】 For external use: appropriate amount, crush the fresh product and apply it. Internal use: Take appropriate amount and soak the fresh product in vinegar.

[Discussions by various scholars] "Chinese Medicinal Animals": It has the function of detoxification. Mainly used to treat sea snake bites.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

Above we introduced the blue-scaled fish and its characteristics. We can know that the blue-scaled fish has very good efficacy and functions, and has played a therapeutic and auxiliary therapeutic role in many diseases. I hope this will be helpful to everyone’s health.