The efficacy and function of bighead carp

I don’t know if you are familiar with bighead carp and whether you understand its functions and effects. Let’s analyze in detail the value and eating methods of bighead carp.

[Alias] Bass fish (Classic of Mountains and Seas), black carp (Shanglinfu), black carp and silver carp (Food Materia Medica by Yao Kecheng), black carp (Food Materia Medica Collection), bighead carp and silver carp (Yi Lin Zuan Yao), black carp (Compendium of Materia Medica Qiu Yuan), bighead carp (Sui Xi Ju Diet), bighead carp (Zoology Dictionary), black carp and bighead carp (Systematic Zoology by Xue Deqian).

[Source] The meat of the bighead carp .

[Original morphology] The body is laterally flattened and spindle-shaped. The abdomen is relatively rounded before the base of the pelvic fin, and there is a very narrow ventral ridge from the base of the pelvic fin to the anus. The body length is generally more than 50 cm. The head is large, about 1/3 of the body length. The snout is blunt, broad and round, the mouth is very wide, and the middle of the upper lip is very thick. The eyes are small and located very low, below the median axis of the head. There is a row of hypopharyngeal teeth in the shape of a spoon. The gill rakers are numerous, leaf-like, closely arranged but not united. There are well-developed spiral-shaped suprabranchial organs. The scales are small, with 96 to 110 scales on the lateral line. Dorsal fin III7, very short, without spines, starting point behind the base of the pelvic fin. Pectoral fins long, reaching base of pelvic fins, anal fin III12-13. The tail fin is forked. The back and upper parts of the sides are slightly black, the abdomen is grayish white, and there are many irregular black spots on both sides. Pectoral and pelvic fins grayish white.

[Distribution in habitat] It lives in rivers and lakes, and overwinters in riverbeds and deep rock pits. It is distributed in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and is rarely seen in Northeast China and North China. It is one of the farmed fish in my country.

【Nature and flavor】 "Compendium of Materia Medica": "sweet, warm, non-toxic."

【Meridian】 "Ben Cao Qiu Zhen": "enters the stomach."

【Function】 ① Wang Ying's "Food Materia Medica"; "Warms the stomach and benefits the body."

【Note】 "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Eating too much can cause wind-heat and scabies."

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

[Source] From "Supplement to Compendium of Materia Medica". "Compendium of Materia Medica": Bighead carp can be found everywhere in rivers and lakes. It looks like silver carp but is black in color. Its head is the largest, weighing up to forty or fifty kilograms. The taste is inferior to that of silver carp. The beauty of silver carp lies in its belly, while the beauty of bighead carp lies in its head. It is a mistake to think that silver carp and bighead carp are the same thing. The size of the head and the blackness of its color are not much different. The "Classic of Mountains and Seas" says that the shame fish is like a carp with a big head, and eating it can cure warts.

I believe that after reading the above explanations, everyone has a deeper understanding of the Chinese medicinal silver carp, right? In fact, many foods or medicinal materials are the same. Only when we understand them can we eat them correctly according to our own situation and effectively help maintain our health.