The efficacy and function of catfish

Bighead carp is a common Chinese medicinal material. It has great health-care effects and is also effective for some diseases. We need to choose it according to our needs. Many people in our daily life don’t know much about bighead carp. Let’s analyze bighead carp below.

[Other names] Yellow cheek (Classic of Mountains and Seas), raw mother fish (Records of Strange Things in Lingbiao), widower (Taiping Yulan), yellow cheek fish (Compendium of Materia Medica), bamboo fish (Taxonomy of Vertebrates), pole fish (Taxonomy of Fishes), pole fish (Fishes of the Heilongjiang River Basin), yellow croaker (Chinese Economic Animals·Freshwater Fishes).

[Source] The meat of the bighead carp , a carp of the family Cyprinidae.

[Original morphology] The body is slender, slightly laterally flattened, with a round abdomen and no abdominal ridges. The body length is about 80 cm, and the largest can reach 2 meters. The head is long and pointed at the front, and the snout is much longer than it is wide. Mouth large, terminal, with the end of the mouth cleft reaching below the eye rim. There is a hard bony protrusion at the front end of the lower jaw, which coincides with the depression at the front edge of the upper jaw. Both the upper and lower jaws are strong. Eyes small, scales fine, lateral line scales 110 to 117. Dorsal fin III9-10, very small, starting point behind the ventral mackerel. Anal fin III10～11. The caudal fin is deeply forked. The body is slightly yellow, the abdomen is silvery white; the dorsal fin and caudal fin are bluish-gray, and the cheek and other fins are light yellow.

[Habitat distribution] It lives in rivers and lakes. It has strong swimming ability and is ferocious. Except for the northwest and southwest of my country, it is distributed in rivers from north to south of the plain area.

【Nature and flavor】 ① "Compendium of Materia Medica": "sweet, neutral, non-toxic."

【Meridian】 "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It enters the Taiyin meridians of the hands and feet, and the Yangming meridians."

【Functions and indications】 "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can cause vomiting after eating, and warm the middle and benefit the stomach."

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

[Source] From "Compendium of Materia Medica". "Compendium of Materia Medica": Bighead carp lives in rivers and lakes. Its body is like that of a carp but with a flat belly, its head is like that of a grass carp but with a big mouth, its cheeks are like those of a catfish but with a yellowish color, and its scales are like those of a trout but slightly thinner. The largest ones can weigh thirty to forty kilograms. It is extremely poisonous to fish. If you have this in your pond, you cannot keep fish.

The above content is an introduction to the Chinese medicinal herb, and I hope it can be of some help to everyone. There are many medicinal herbs similar to bighead carp in our daily life. When we consume Chinese medicines such as bighead carp, we need to follow the doctor's instructions and not consume them blindly.