Eel

Eel

(bielu)

[synonym] eels, snakefish, wind eel (compendium), eels (Fengyuan in the classic), eels, green eels (Chinese animal atlas? Fish).

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

[animal morphology] eel

The body is slender, the front part is cylindrical, and the rear part is slightly flat. The body length is about 40 cm. The head is long and sharp. The snout is pointed and flat. The eyes are small and lie in the front of the head. The eye interval is wide, approximately equal to the length of the snout. There are 2 nostrils on each side, the posterior nostril is close to the front of the eye, and the anterior nostril is a small tube, which is located on both sides of the snout. The mouth is large and wide, reaching the posterior edge of the eye. The mandible is slightly longer than the maxilla, the lip is thick, and both the mandible and the vomer have fine teeth. The branchial foramen are small and located in front of the base of pectoral fin. The lateral line is complete, the scales are small and long, hidden in the epidermis. The body surface is sticky. The dorsal fin is long and low, and its starting point is closer to the gluteal fin than to the gill hole. The anal fin is long and low, starting immediately behind the anus. The pectoral fin is nearly round without ventral fin. The caudal fin is short and connected with the dorsal fin and gluteal fin. The back of the body is gray black, the upper edge of the side is slightly green, and the abdomen is white.

They live in rivers and lakes. At a certain age, they enter the sea to lay eggs in autumn. The main food is small fish, crab, shrimp, earthworm and aquatic insects. Distribution of the Yangtze River, Minjiang River, Pearl River Basin and Hainan Island.

The bone (eel bone), blood (eel blood) and fat (eel paste) of this animal are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[chemical composition] meat contains 76 grams of water, 14.5 grams of protein, 8 grams of fat, 1.4 grams of ash, 166 mg of calcium, 211 mg of phosphorus and 1.8 mg of iron per 100 grams; vitamin a 3000 IU. B1_ 10 μ g, B2_ 100 μ g, nicotinic acid 6.0 mg, C_ 15 mg. Carnosine and goose carnosine were also isolated from muscle. It contains 13.7 mg of volatile basic nitrogen, 36.0 μ g equivalent / g of volatile reducing substances, 2.2 mg% of histamine and significant amount of butyric acid. The results showed that there were polysaccharides in the mucus and synovial fluid of fish body, including 0.65 mg of glucosamine, 6.5 mg of galactose and 0.16 mg of glucuronic acid. Eel liver is especially rich in vitamins, such as a15000 IU, B1 per 100g_ 300 μ g, B2_ 500 micrograms.

Sweet and smooth.

① Bielu: "it tastes sweet and poisonous. "

② "Eating Materia Medica"; cold. "

③ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "flat, slightly toxic. "

④ Huiyue medical mirror: "Gan, Ping, slightly cold. "

[Guijing] 1. In Ben Cao Qiu Zhen: "into the liver and kidney. "

② In Bencao Zaixin: "entering the spleen and kidney meridians. "

Functions and indications: tonifying deficiency, eliminating wind dampness and killing insects. It is used to treat asthenia, fatigue, bone steaming, rheumatism, arthralgia, beriberi, rubella, infantile malnutrition, metrorrhagia and metrorrhagia in women, intestinal wind, hemorrhoids, and ulcers.

① Bielu: "master five hemorrhoids fistula, kill all insects. "

② "Dietotherapy Materia Medica": "treating women with all kinds of diseases, all wind pruritus like insects.". "

③ Meng Shen: "smoked hemorrhoids. Suffering from various ulcers, fistulas and ulcers, it is very effective to eat for a long time. Waist and kidney dampness wind arthralgia often such as washing, can take five flavors, rice boiled, fasting food, very tonic. Wet feet irritate people. "

④ "Rihuazi Materia Medica" says: "it can cure labor, replenish deficiency, kill insects, poison and sores, warm waist and knees, raise Yang, and cure women's sores and itches. "

⑤ Daily use materia medica: "Bu Wu Zang. Treat all wind diseases, intestinal wind blood. "

⑥ "Gangmu": "treatment of infantile malnutrition and insect heartache. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: burn, grind, or cook.

[should avoid] after the disease, the spleen and kidney are weak, and the patients with phlegm and diarrhea should not take it.

① Kou Zong: "dynamic wind. "

② Daily use materia medica: "those with dark spots under the abdomen are very poisonous. Eat with Ginkgo biloba and suffer from soft wind. "

⑧ "Mu Cao Jing Shu": "those with weak spleen and stomach and easy to discharge should not eat. "

④ "Materia medica for the original": "spleen and kidney deficiency slippery and phlegm people do not eat. "

⑤ "Suixiju diet spectrum": "eat more to help fever, pregnant women should avoid it in time. "

[prescription selection] 1. To treat bone steamed, thin and windy: treat two Jin of eel as if it were food. Cut it into pieces, put it into a jar, boil it in two cups of wine, and eat it in salt and vinegar. (Sheng Hui Fang)

⑦ Cure all asthenia and weakness of men and women: the eel is not limited to a few kilos, washed, steamed with lotus leaves, put on the eel, steamed with a stick of incense, remove the head, tail and bone, mash, add fried yam powder, the pill is as big as Wuzi, dried in the sun, add mint, and keep the medicine gas. Hollow Mint soup or wine for three or four dollars. (eel balls in experience Collection)

③ Treatment of five hemorrhoids and fistula, insecticidal: eel head, such as food treatment, cut into pieces, fried, mixed with pepper, salt, sauce food. (heart mirror of food medicine)

④ Treatment of rat fistula: four liang of eel, four liang of boar skin, one or two of Qu Mai, one of toad, thirty spotted cat, pig fat, fifteen Croton. Except for pig fat and croton, the Wutong is used as pig's fat, Croton and tamping pestle, and pills are like Indus. If you feel cold and hot, if you don't feel it, you'll take three more pills in the future. If you increase it a little, you should eat hot food carefully, and you'll feel bored. (shenghuifang eel fish balls)

⑤ Treatment of heartache: the eel is lightly roasted to make it ripe. Eat one or two pieces with the patient. (Meng Shen's Bi Xiao Fang)

[discussion by famous experts] 1. In the book of Materia Medica, eel is sweet and cold, and it is good at killing insects. Therefore, it is beneficial for people to eat it frequently. "

② "Ben Cao Hui Yan": "eel is a medicine to eliminate malnutrition and cure scrofula. Such as ulcer fistula hemorrhoids, and rheumatic foot pain, people often eat it, gradually effective. Although it is poisonous in nature, it can be cooked properly with five flavors, scallions, ginger, peppers and leeks. It can also nourish the kidney and strengthen deficiency. "

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