Heavy lipped fish

Heavy lipped fish

(food materia medica by Yao Kecheng)

[synonym] dace like XENOCYPRIS (ichthyology) and cheilocypris (fishes in Heilongjiang River Basin).

[source] it is the meat of Cyprinidae.

[animal morphology] XENOCYPRIS Dactylis

Body slightly flat, abdomen round, body length about 25 cm. The head is long and stout, the kiss is long and pointed out. There is a row of mucinous cavities in the upper posterior part of the eye and the edge of the anterior operculum. The upper jaw is long. The lip is thick and fleshy, forming a deep groove between the upper lip and the kissing fold, interrupted in front of the lower lip and divided into two leaves. 1 pair of mandible, slightly shorter than eye diameter. Three lines of hypopharyngeal teeth. The scales are medium large and the lateral scales are 45-49. Dorsal fin Ⅲ 7, the third unbranched fin is smooth and thick hard spines, its starting point is slightly close to the rostrum. Anal fin Ⅲ 6. The back is slightly black and the abdomen is white. There are many black spots on the side of the larva, but not in the adult.

They live in fast flowing rivers. It feeds on the larvae of plankton and aquatic insects. The oviposition period is from May to June. It is distributed in the Minjiang River, Jialing River, Hanjiang River and other water systems of the Yangtze River Basin and in various water systems of the Heilongjiang River Basin.

[sexual taste] sweet and non-toxic.

[function indications] for ten years, he has been treating lumbar and spinal pain, leg and knee pain and numbness, unable to move.