The efficacy and function of bream

As a traditional Chinese medicine, bream provides us with a variety of nutrients. It can also solve some diseases encountered by the body, so it is deeply loved by people. Let’s take a look at the nutrients and benefits of bream.

[Other names] Bream (Daily Materia Medica), flat-breasted bream (Taxonomy of Vertebrates), faroe (Fish of the Heilongjiang River Basin).

[Source] The meat of the carp fish, the Clown carp .

[Original form] The body is tall, laterally flattened, and diamond-shaped. The body length is about 50 cm, which is 2.2 to 2.8 times the body height. The head is very small. The mouth is small and terminal, with an oblique mouth fissure, upper and lower jaws of equal length, and the upper cover is covered with hard keratin, but it is also easy to fall off. Eye laterally located, closer to tip of snout than to rear edge of operculum. Pharyngeal teeth in 3 rows. There are 17 to 22 gill rakers, most of which have 18 to 21. There are 50 to 60 lateral line scales. There are 3 and 7 dorsal fin rays, the distance from the starting point to the tip of the snout is shorter than the distance to the base of the caudal fin, with strong and smooth spines; the height of the dorsal fin is significantly greater than the length of the head. Pectoral fins just reaching base of pelvic fins. The pelvic fins only extend to the anus, and there is a prominent ventral ridge from the base of the pelvic fins to the anus. Anal fin rays 3, 24 to 32, mostly 26 to 28; no spines, starting point below the vertical line at the end of the dorsal fin base. The caudal fin is deeply forked, with the lower lobe longer than the upper lobe. The body is bluish-gray, the back of the head and the back of the body are darker, the sides are gray with light green, the abdomen is white, and all fins are gray-black.

【Habitat distribution】 Lives in rivers and lakes. Usually lives in the middle and lower layers of water. The main food is Vallisneria, Hydrilla verticillata, debris of mollusks and lake bottom plants, filamentous green algae, freshwater sponges, etc. The spawning period is from May to June, at which time beads appear on the bodies of both males and females. It is distributed in rivers such as Heilongjiang, Yangtze River, Pearl River, Qiantang River, Minjiang River, and in lakes such as Dongting Lake, Poyang Lake, and Liangzi Lake.

【Nature and flavor】 ① "Daily Materia Medica": "sweet, neutral."

【Meridian】 "Compendium of Materia Medica": "enters the foot yangming meridian."

【Function】 "Compendium of Materia Medica for Diet Therapy": "It regulates the stomach qi and benefits the five internal organs. Eating it with mustard sauce can help the lung qi and remove stomach wind. For those who cannot digest food, eating it can help the spleen qi and make people eat more."

【Note】 "Food Therapy Materia Medica" states: "People suffering from malnutrition and dysentery should not eat this."

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

[Source] 1. From "Dietary Therapy Materia Medica"; 2. "Compendium of Materia Medica": Bream is found everywhere, especially in Han and Mianyang. It has a small head, retracted neck, curved back and wide belly, a flat body with fine scales. It is bluish-white in color, with fat in the belly, and tastes the most delicious. Its nature is suitable for flowing water. There is also a kind of fire-roasted bream, which looks like a bream in both head and tail, but has a more bulging spine and a red mane connected to the tail, like a bat's wings. It is black with red markings, and its color is like smoke, hence the name. Some are as large as twenty or thirty kilograms.

The above is a brief introduction to bream. Through this we can understand that bream contains a variety of nutrients, which are very effective in treating and preventing some diseases. In daily life, everyone can eat it under the guidance of relevant people.