Carp, a freshwater fish, is also known as carp abductor, carp, maozi, and red fish. It is a coarse and strong brown fish in the family Cyprinidae (carp), native to Asia, omnivorous. Nutritional analysis 1, carp protein not only high content, but also high quality, human digestion and absorption rate of up to 96%, and contains can supply the human body with essential amino acids, minerals, vitamin A and vitamin D and other elements required by the human body. Each 100g of meat contains 17.6g of protein, 4.1g of fat, 50mg of calcium, 204mg of phosphorus and a variety of vitamins. Vitamin A 25 micrograms, riboflavin 0.09g, nixic acid 2.7mg, total vitamin E 1.27mg, potassium 334mg, magnesium 33mg, zinc 2.08mg, selenium 15.38mg. The amino acid content is complete. 2. The fat of carp is mostly unsaturated fatty acids, which can minimize cholesterol and can prevent atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease, therefore, eating more fish can lead to a long and healthy life. Food compatibility Carp should not be eaten with mung beans, taro, beef and lamb oil, pork liver, chicken, thorns, licorice, pumpkin, and dog meat, or with vermilion in Chinese medicine; carp is compatible with pickled vegetables: it can cause cancer of the digestive tract. Functions and indications Boiled food, can cure cough rebellious upper gas, jaundice, thirst, laxative urination. Eliminate lower limb edema and fetal gas disturbance. As perch, it has warming and tonic effects and removes cold, chest congestion and abdominal distension, and discomfort of epigastric accumulation. Roasted and ground into powder, it can generate sweat, cure cough and asthma, promote lactation and reduce swelling. It is taken with rice drink to cure severe diarrhea in adults and children. Simmered in child’s stool, it can cure regurgitation and bad wind into the abdomen. Today, we introduce you to eat carp for edema. The edema disease is a common clinical disease, it is mostly seen in chronic kidney disease, liver cirrhosis, pleural effusion, pericardial effusion, peritoneal effusion and other diseases, generations of doctors recognized that this kind of edema disease is mostly caused by the lack of semen, mostly related to low protein, the law should follow the purpose of the “Jing”: “essence deficiency, supplemented with taste”, so take carp soup to treat it. The use of carp in the treatment of edema was first described in the Jin Dynasty in Ge Hong’s “Post-Elbow Prescription”, Volume 3. The carp is sweet, flat and non-toxic, so it can be used to tonify the essence and promote water to change its quality and eliminate swelling by using its principle of “taste to form, form to gas, gas to essence, and essence to transformation” (Su Wen. Yin Yang Ying Xiang Dazheng). A few of the first carp soup ancient formula Jin Dynasty Ge Hong “elbow after the preparation of urgent formula” treatment of stroke swelling full body face are Hong generous: 1, large carp, to alcohol bitter wine boiled, so that the bitter wine is finished, is to eat fish, do not use vinegar and salt and black beans other things mixed also, but then made to heal. 2, the carp is one foot five inches long, urine impregnated so that there is no overnight, the flat day to pour water from the mouth to the tail, micro-fire sizzling so slightly cooked, remove the skin, do not eat salt overnight, take it, those who can not, and then take it to the end, the divine formula. Song Dynasty “Taiping Sheng Hui Fang” treatment of water gas, urine, in addition to swelling, and formula: carp a head, weighing one catty treatment as food law, the upper boiled so cooked, take the juice and fish, into the winter melon, white onion, as a soup to eat, if not effective, and then as food.