bighead

bighead

(notes on materia medica)

[synonyms] skull fish (Shanhaijing), fish (shanglinfu), zaobaotou, zaochui (Yao Kecheng's food materia medica), black Baotou fish (food materia medica huizuan), bighead carp (yilinzuanyao), sturgeon (seeking the origin of Materia Medica), Baotou fish (suixijuyin recipe), fat headed fish (Zoology Dictionary), black silver carp, huachui (Xue De's systematic zoology).

[source] it is the meat of bighead carp.

Bighead carp

The abdomen is round in front of the base of the ventral fin, and there is a narrow ventral edge from the base of the ventral fin to the anus. 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, with a wide mouth and a thick middle upper lip. The eye is small, especially low, below the cephalic median axis. The hypopharyngeal teeth are in a row and are dipper shaped. The gill rakes are many, leaf like, closely arranged, but not united. There are developed and spiral suprabranchial organs. The scales are small and the lateral scales are 96-110. Dorsal fin Ⅲ 7, very short, without hard spines, starting after the base of ventral fin. The pectoral fin is long, reaching the base of ventral fin, and the anal fin is 12-13. Caudal fin forked. The back and upper half of both sides are slightly black, the abdomen is gray, and there are many irregular black spots on both sides. The chest and ventral fins are gray.

It lives in rivers and lakes, winters in river beds and deep rock pits in winter, and distributes in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River Basin, rarely in Northeast and North China. It is one of the fish culture in China.

[nature and taste] Compendium: "sweet, warm, non-toxic. "

[Guijing] Ben Cao Qiu Zhen: "into the stomach. "

[functions and indications] 1. Wang Ying's food materia medica; 2. "

② "Seeking the source of Materia Medica": "warming the stomach, removing dizziness and benefiting the brain, it is appropriate for the elderly to have phlegm and asthma. "

[should avoid] "Gangmu": "eat more, move, wind heat, scabies. "