Male fish

Male fish

(food materia medica by Yao Kecheng)

Another name: Gongyu and Gongyu (records of Dali Prefecture).

[source] it is the meat of Schizothorax yunnanensis.

[animal morphology] Schizothorax yunnanensis

The body is long and narrow, slightly laterally flat. Generally, it is about 15 cm long, and up to 30 cm long. The head is conical and the mouth is inferior. The lower lip is fleshy, the posterior margin is free, with two left and right leaves, without obvious middle lobe, the posterior sulcus is discontinuous, and the medial mandible is slightly keratinized, but does not form a sharp edge. It should be 2 pairs, several equal length, slightly longer or equal than the eye diameter. The end of the snout reaches below the posterior edge of the nostril; the end of the Jiexu reaches below the middle of the eyeball. Hypopharyngeal teeth 3-line, slender, apex curved. The scales are small, the abdomen from gill isthmus to the end of pectoral fin is naked without scales; the lateral scales are larger than the body scales, and there are large scales on both sides of anal fin and anal fin. Dorsal fin Ⅲ 8, unbranched, with hard spines and serrated posterior margin. Anal fin Ⅱ 5. The back and sides of the body are bluish gray, with most irregular small black spots, and the abdomen is silvery white.

It lives in still water with many aquatic plants and mud bottom, and its spawning period is from June to July. Erhai Lake and Lancang River water system in Yunnan Province.

In addition to the above species, Dali Schizothorax is also known as "male fish" in Yunnan.

[nature and taste] Yao Kecheng's food materia medica: "it tastes sweet and nontoxic. "

[function and indications] Yao Kecheng's food materia medica: "housewife's strain, metrorrhagia and bleeding; children's phlegm, hot wind, epilepsy, erysipelas. "

Chinese PinYin : Gong Yu