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Sweet and neutral in nature, it promotes appetite; excessive consumption benefits the body. However, its flavor is rich and its nature cloying/sticky, so it should be avoided by those whose illnesses have just recovered.

Also known as Jiang fish (River Fish) or Yellow Croaker. Its nature is sweet and neutral, promoting appetite and benefiting Qi. White dried fish: Without fat, it is not greasy; it helps digest retained food and regulates the stomach and intestines. Swim bladder gel: Benefits essence and promotes conception.

Its nature is sweet and neutral, suitable for tonification and benefit; it can be consumed by those with consumptive diseases (Xu Lao).

Its nature is sweet and neutral, benefiting Qi and strengthening strength, making people plump and healthy. Pomfret roe: Toxic; consuming it causes diarrhea/loose stools.

Belonging to Earth, its nature is sweet and warm; it strengthens the spleen and harmonizes the stomach, promotes urination and unblocks the bowels. It is contraindicated for dysentery and diarrhea. Crucian carp roe: Regulates the middle jiao, benefits Liver Qi, removes nebula (cataracts/opacities), and is particularly effective at lubricating the intestines.

Also known as Fang fish. Its nature is sweet and warm, regulating the stomach and unblocking the intestines. It is contraindicated for those with infantile malnutrition (Gan syndrome) and dysentery.

Also known as [Missing Character] fish. Its nature is sweet and neutral, broadening the middle jiao and promoting appetite, encouraging food intake.

Sweet and salty, neutral in nature; regulates the stomach and treats dysentery.

Commonly known as Black fish, which is the Seven-star fish. Its nature is sweet and cold; it unblocks the intestines and promotes urination; treats hemorrhoids and dispels wind; reduces edema during pregnancy. Snakehead fish gallbladder: Bitter and sweet in taste; applying it to treat throat bi (sore throat/obstruction) is excellent.

Its nature is sweet and neutral; dispels wind and kills parasites, treating consumptive bone-steaming fever. Burned bones produce smoke that repels mosquitoes. Moray eel: Functions are similar, but its nature is slightly more dispersing/activating; it is contraindicated for those whose illnesses have just recovered. For smallpox/pox lesions entering the eye causing opacities, applying blood makes them fall off immediately; tail blood is especially effective.

Its nature is sweet and warm; benefits blood and tonifies deficiency, warms the middle and dispels wind-dampness. Tail blood: Applied to treat facial paralysis (deviation of mouth and eyes); dripped into the ear to treat chronic deafness; dripped into the nose to treat epistaxis; applied to the eye to remove post-smallpox opacities. Eel head: Treats insects entering the ear.

Commonly known as Powder loach. Its nature is sweet and neutral; regulates the middle and benefits Qi; when boiled and eaten, it contracts hemorrhoids.

Also known as Wu [Missing Character] bone, which is Cuttlefish bone. Its nature is salty and warm; enters the Liver, Kidney, and Blood levels; dispels dampness and stops bleeding, treating metrorrhagia/metrostaxis (abnormal uterine bleeding) and intestinal wind (bloody stool). Meat: Neutral in nature, benefits Qi, and promotes free flow of menstruation.

Its nature is salty and neutral; drains damp-heat and resolves blood stasis. Boiled with vinegar, it is suitable for those with dysenteric discharge. The older it is, the better.

Its nature is sweet and warm; dispels wind and supports the eruption of smallpox, promotes lactation, and expels phlegm. Excessive consumption agitates wind.

Sweet, salty, and neutral in nature; functions are close to River shrimp, but its nature is more dispersing/activating; it is contraindicated for those with skin sores and scabies.