Is eating mandarin fish good for your health?
Compendium of Materia Medica records the medicinal value of sturgeon in detail: "Sturgeon liver is mainly used for malignant sores; Meat supplements deficiency and overflows qi, making people healthy; Boil the juice and drink it to cure bloody stranguria; Preserve nasal meat, tonify deficiency and replenish qi; The child is shaped like a small bean, which is suitable for eating and kills the worms in the belly. " In addition, sturgeon is a magical fish. Different organs and different parts will have different drug effects. Some recent studies in Canada and the United States show that the anti-cancer factor (bioactive component) contained in sturgeon cartilage is 15-20 times that of shark cartilage. Long-term consumption of sturgeon meat has obvious effects on low back pain, hair loss and stomach diseases that have not been cured for a long time; Fish gills can clear away heat and detoxify, fish liver is mainly used to treat boils and scabies, fish oil has special effects on treating scalds, and fish nose can tonify deficiency and reduce qi. According to the China Academy of Sciences Institute of Oceanography, sturgeon muscle contains more than ten kinds of essential amino acids, and fat contains 12.5% of "DHA" and "EPA" (also known as brain gold), which has a good effect on softening cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, promoting brain development, improving IQ and preventing Alzheimer's disease. Cartilage and bone marrow (commonly known as "dragon tendon") have anti-cancer factors and can be eaten directly. They are known as "shark wings and sturgeon bones". Sturgeon is one of the paleontological groups preserved in Cretaceous, and once lived on the earth with dinosaurs. Because its primitive and quaint appearance has hardly changed in 200 million years, it is called "living fossil" in water. Herring is a kind of sturgeon. 1998, the United Nations Washington Convention recognized the world wild sturgeon as an endangered animal and listed it in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. Sturgeon is an ancient fish, which originated from1.300 million years ago. There are about 28 species in the world and 8 species in China. The only species with economic significance and realistic fishing value are Amur sturgeon and bighead carp in Heilongjiang Province.