Carp scales

Carp scales

(dietotherapy materia medica)

[source] it is the scale of Cyprinus carpio, a member of Cyprinidae. The animal morphology can be seen in "Cyprinus carpio".

[chemical composition] fish scale is the bone formed by the dermis of the skin. Its matrix is changed from collagen. Chemically, it belongs to a kind of hard protein, named as fish scale hard protein, but its properties are not fully clear.

[function indications] disperse blood and stop bleeding. Treatment of hematemesis, bleeding, metrorrhagia with the next, stasis abdominal pain, hemorrhoids leakage.

① "Dietotherapy Materia Medica": "burn, smoke, research, wine under the square inch dagger, bankrupt women stagnate blood. "

② "Compendium": "burning ash, treatment of hematemesis, collapse, leakage, with the next, hemorrhoids fistula, fish sticking. "

③ "Huiyue medical mirror": "burning ash can cure postpartum hemorrhage, dizziness and blood loss. "

[selection] 1. Treatment of hemorrhoids and hemorrhoids: the second and third scales of black carp are wrapped in thin cocoons like jujube columns. (Confucianist family affairs)

② Treatment of fish bone sticking: carp ridge 36 scales, baked research, cold water service. (health zaxing)

③ Treatment of epistaxis: carp scales fried into ash, research for the end, cold water transfer under one or two money. (Puji Fang)

In the compendium, the ancient prescriptions for carp are mostly made of skin and scales, which are used to treat metrorrhagia and hemorrhoids. "