Channa Argus

Channa Argus

(Ben Jing)

[synonyms] Liyu, Huyu (Ben Jing), Zhuo (Shuo Wen), Qia, Zhuo (Guang ya), heichanyu (Ben Cao Tu Jing), xuanchanyu, Wenyu (Yu Ya), heiliyu (Ben Cao Yan Yi), Heiyu (daily Ben Cao), Wuyu (Dian Nan Ben Cao), heimatchhead fish (Yi Lin Ji Yao), snakehead fish (Yi Lin Zuan Yao), Wubang, huotou (Chinese animal map) Fish).

[source] it is the meat or whole body of Channa Argus.

[animal morphology] Channa Argus

The body is slender, cylindric in front and flat in back. Body length about 30 cm; head pointed and flat, covered with scales. The mouth is large, terminal, the cleft is inclined, downward, protruding forward and reaching the posterior edge of the eye. The upper and lower jaw, hoe bone and operculum all have sharp teeth. The eye is located in the anterior superior part of the head. Gill harrow 10-13. The lateral line is broken above the starting point of the anal fin, and the two segments are separated by two lines of scales; the lateral line scales are 60-67. Both dorsal and gluteal fins are long, reaching the base of caudal fin. Bluefin 47-52. The pectoral fin is 12-13 short, the end of which reaches to the middle of the abdominal fin; the abdominal fin is I 8, not to the gluteal fin. The anal fin was 31-33. The caudal fin is round. All of them are grayish black, with dark back and head, and light abdomen. There are many irregular black stripes on the body side and two longitudinal black stripes on the head side. The dorsal fin, gluteal fin and caudal fin all have black and white patterns. The pectoral fin and ventral fin are light yellow, and there is a black spot at the base of pectoral fin.

They live in rivers, lakes and ponds, and like to live in muddy water bottom with more aquatic plants and sludge. It is a fierce carnivorous fish that feeds on insects, shrimps and small fish. The oviposition period is from June to July. It is dormant in winter. It is widely distributed in rivers and lakes in most areas of China.

The blood (snakehead blood), gall (snakehead gall) and intestine (snakehead intestine) of this animal are also used for medicine.

[chemical composition] the food contains 78 grams of water, 19.8 grams of protein, 1.4 grams of fat, 1.2 grams of ash, 57 mg of calcium, 163 mg of phosphorus, 0.5 mg of iron, 0.03 mg of thiamine, 0.25 mg of riboflavin and 2.8 mg of nicotinic acid per 100 grams. 100 mg histidine was isolated from 1 kg muscle and 3-methylhistidine was also found.

There are 18 kinds of free amino acids such as citrulline, proline and serine in the tail muscle of ophiocephalus Argus. The content of calcium in muscle, serum, liver and gonad of ophiocephalus Argus increases in cold season, but decreases in inorganic phosphorus. The content of vitamin C is higher in summer than in winter. The available methionine content in the fish meal of Channa Argus and Channa Argus is 2.40-2.86 g / 16 g n, which is equivalent to 72-90% of the total methionine. The methionine content in the fish meal of Channa Argus and Channa Argus is higher than that in the fish meal of black carp, minnow and minnow. The fresh muscle of ophiocephalus Argus contains no histamine, which is produced when it begins to decay. When it is stored below 5 ℃, it can inhibit its decay. The contents of hydroxyproline and proline in skin and scales were 6.04 (skin), 7.35 (scale), 9.48 (skin) and 12.93 (scale) g / 100 g protein.

Sweet and cold.

① Ben Jing: "it tastes sweet and cold. "

② Bielu: "non toxic. "

③ Daily use materia medica: "it is slightly toxic. "

[Guijing] compendium of materia medica: "start, foot Taiyin, Yangming.". "

Functions and indications: tonifying spleen and promoting diuresis. Treatment of edema, dampness, beriberi, hemorrhoids, scabies.

① "Ben Jing": "the main dampness Bi, puffy face, under the flood. "

② Bielu: "treat five hemorrhoids. "

③ Meng Shen: "the next urine congestion gas. It also serves as a kind of food with good taste and good taste. "

④ Bencao tujing: "there is moisture in pregnancy"

⑤ "Diannan Materia Medica" says: "it can greatly tonify blood gas and treat women's dry blood tuberculosis. Calcination is the last treatment. He cooked fennel to cure yuan deficiency. "

⑥ Yilin zuanyao: "tonifying the heart and nourishing Yin, clarifying kidney water, promoting water infiltration, detoxifying and removing heat. "

⑦ "Invigorating the spleen and promoting diuresis" in "seeking truth from Materia Medica". "

⑧ New materia medica: "strengthen Yang, nourish yin, eliminate wind and dampness. Cure woman blood dry, classics water is not adjusted, avalanche drench two belt, manage waist beriberi. Scale, tail detoxification to wind, nourishing liver and kidney, Tongjing Lishi. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: cooked food or baked food on fire.

[formula selection] ① treatment of swelling: snakehead fish and Adzuki Bean white. (Tao Hongjing)

② Cure ten kinds of water vapor diseases: a head of Channa, weighing more than 1 jin, cooked to juice, and white gourd, scallion Soup for food. (heart mirror of food medicine)

③ Treatment of apoplexy, small intestine astringency, defecation difficult, breathing: two Jin of Channa (wash off scales and intestines, make clean), one or two red Poria cocos, one or two alismatis, one or two Zeqi, one or two almonds (soaked in soup, peeled, pointed), one or two mulberry root white skin (file), one or two perilla stems and leaves. To apply the medicine file, first take five liters of water, boil the fish for three liters of juice, remove the fish for medicine, boil for two liters, and remove the dross. Take one Chinese Cup before eating. The fish should also be eaten. (shenghuifang Chanyu soup)

④ Treatment of abdominal edema: Live snakehead to abdominal scale, into a single garlic to make full, coated with wet yellow mud, charcoal fire fried food, repeated effect. (Ben Jing Feng Yuan)

⑤ In the treatment of intestinal hemorrhoids, there is often blood in every stool: snakehead, fish, ginger and fish. Avoid cold poison. (waitai)

⑥ It can cure all wind sores and scabies for a long time: a black match head fish. Remove the intestines and stomach, fill it with the leaves of Xanthium sibiricum, put the fish on the bottom of the pot with Xanthium sibiricum, simmer it with less water, remove the skin and bones, eat it lightly, and do not add salt or sauce. (Yilin Jiyao)

In the classic of Materia Medica, Liyu is an important medicine for invigorating the spleen and removing water. On the empty water flooding, on the strong water from the clear. All the medicines for treating edema are either for diuresis or for tonifying the spleen. Only Liyu can guide the cross flow and make up for its deficiency. It can also make up for its deficiency. Therefore, Liyu has the characteristics of flooding, dampness and swelling. Five hemorrhoids are caused by dampness and heat. "Meng Shen is the master of urination and defecation, blocking Qi. He is good at eating and drinking. Su Song is the master of water and Qi in pregnancy, and uses his functions of dehumidification, lowering water and benefiting spleen. "

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