▲ acquisition

It is produced all year round, and the highest yield is usually from August to September. When fishing, the fisherman catches the fish together, takes out the internal organs and dries them, or removes the internal organs from the black and gray skin film outside, then rolls up the tail, dries it, selects the ones of similar size and ties them with red lines in pairs. Gill nets, purse seines or trawls are often used to catch seahorses. The treatment method is very simple, just wash and dry. Small crustaceans are bait for seahorses.

▲ place of origin

1. Haima: mainly produced in Yangjiang, Dong Lei, Haikang, Huiyang, Baoan, Zhanjiang, Haifeng, Pingtan, Zhangpu, Putian, Dongshan, Jinjiang, Nan 'an, Fuqing, Haikou, Taiwan Province Province, Penghu Islands and other coastal areas in Guangdong, with the largest output in Guangdong and sold all over the country; In addition, Japan, Malaya, East India, Hawaii and other coastal areas also produce, and some of them were imported before, but now they have stopped.

2. Hippocampus spinosa: mainly produced in Putian, Tong 'an and Zhao 'an in Fujian, coastal areas in Guangdong and Hainan Island, Rizhao, Jiaonan, Qingdao and Yantai in Shandong, Luda, Yahe, Anton in Liaoning, Laoting, Huanghua, Tangshan and Qinhuangdao in Hebei, and sold all over the country.

3. sea maggots: like seahorses

Hippocampus is distributed all over the world, but there are many tropical species. Seahorses usually live in coastal waters with many algae or reefs, or attach to floating objects. It can swim upright, swing its dorsal fin and feed on small crustaceans. The coastal areas around Hainan Island and the offshore areas in the west of Nansha Islands are very suitable for the breeding and growth of seahorses. There are more than ten species, but the species with high medicinal value are spotted hippocampus, thorn hippocampus, Japanese hippocampus and big hippocampus. At present, the artificial breeding of hippocampus has been successful, and Hainan can develop this excellent variety according to local conditions.

▲ Value, sales volume and recognition

Hippocampus is a valuable Chinese medicine with high economic value, which has the medicinal functions of strengthening the body, tonifying kidney and strengthening yang, relaxing muscles and tendons, relieving inflammation and pain, calming the nerves, relieving cough and asthma. Especially for the treatment of nervous system diseases. It has been favored by people since ancient times, and men have a special liking for it. So there is a great demand for hippocampus at home and abroad. It is reported that only China, Hongkong, Taiwan Province Province and Singapore sell about160,000 seahorses every year. Therefore, buying high-quality and cheap seahorses in Hainan has become a shopping activity for many Chinese and foreign tourists to come to Joan.

△ [chemical composition]

Contains amino acids, protein, fatty acids, steroids and inorganic elements. Three-spotted hippocampus contains stearic acid, cholesterol, cholesterol glycol and so on. Acetylcholinesterase, cholinesterase and protease exist in hippocampus striatum and spinohippocampus.

△ [Identification of Medicinal Materials]

1. Hippocampus: long, slightly curved or curled, 8-23 cm long, thick and flat at the upper part, about 2.3 cm in diameter, thin and square at the lower part, about 1 cm in diameter, and slightly sharp and curved at the tail end. The head is like a horse's head, with a long tubular mouth and two sunken eyes. The surface is yellowish white or grayish brown, slightly shiny, with 6 edges in the upper half and 4 edges in the lower half, with dense raised horizontal stripes, teeth on the side and fins on the back. Bones are hard and hard to break. The smell is slightly fishy and salty.

2. Stabbing hippocampus: The shape is similar to that of hippocampus, but smaller, about 15 cm long, and the whole body is hard and 2 ~ 4 mm long. The rest is the same as above

seadragon

[acquisition]

It is produced all year round, usually from April to September. Fishermen use them to catch fish, wash and dry them, or remove the black skin and internal organs outside, wash and dry them.

[concoct]

Brush with water and cut into pieces.

[Medicinal Materials and Production and Marketing]

This product is a dried sea dragon with or without internal organs removed.

[Name] Hailong, alias: Popeye, Qian Chuan.

[Origin and sales habits] Mainly produced in Yangjiang, Huiyang, Baoan, Haifeng, Luda, Zhuanghe and other places in Guangdong, and sold all over the country, with Zhejiang and Jiangsu having the largest sales volume; In addition, Shandong, Fujian, Taiwan Province, Penghu Islands and other coastal areas are also produced.

[chemical composition]

Contains a variety of cystine, protein, fatty acids, steroids and a variety of inorganic elements. Syngnathus acutus also contains cholesterol and cholest -4- keto -3 (cholest -4- ene -3- keto).

[Identification of medicinal materials]

Trait recognition

The whole body is long and slightly flat, the middle part is slightly thick, the tail end is tapered and slightly curved, the length is 20 ~ 40 cm, the diameter of the middle part is 2 ~ 2.5 cm, the head has a long tubular mouth, there are fine teeth on the upper and lower sides of the mouth, and there are two deep-set eyes. The surface is yellowish white or grayish brown, and the yellowish white has two grayish brown stripes on both sides of the back edge. There are five prominent longitudinal edges above the middle part, and four longitudinal edges below the middle part, which are circular and prominent, with thin transverse edges. The bones are hard. The smell is slightly fishy and salty.

It is best to have big strips, white in color and neat in head and tail.

[utility]

Sex and taste have the same function as the hippocampus, only stronger.

petrel

collect

In summer and autumn, people often fish while fishing, or they can fish in the seaweed breeding ground on the rocky shore at low tide, and take out the internal organs to dry.

Be distributed

Distributed in the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea in China.

economic value

Sun drying and mashing can be used as agricultural fertilizer.

Traditional Chinese medicine application:

Sexual taste

Outline: "salty, warm and non-toxic."

Functional indication

Nourishing yin and strengthening yang, expelling wind and removing dampness. Treat impotence, rheumatism, lumbago and leg pain.

(1) Outline: "Rainy weather makes people miserable. Boiling juice to relieve sweating. " And take medicine to nourish yin. "

② Handbook of Chinese Herbal Medicine in Shandong: "Strengthening yang, expelling wind and removing dampness."

3 "Northeast Animal Medicine": "Nourishing yin and expelling wind and dampness. Treat low back and leg pain. "

dosage

Oral administration: decoction,1~ 3; Or after the study, 0.5 ~ 1 money.

Party selection

① Treatment of impotence: Haiyan and Xiao Haima are equally divided. * * * Grind into fine powder, one yuan and fifty cents each time, twice a day. (Shandong Handbook of Chinese Herbal Medicine)