The whole body of the yellow-lipped fish can be used in medicine, its gills are good medicine for cough, fish scales on bronchitis, laryngitis, cracked lips have significant therapeutic effects. In particular, the yellow-lipped fish glue, is taken from the yellow-lipped fish swim bladder, is the treatment of women's postpartum hemorrhagic and long marriage infertility of the medicine, on the serious patient postoperative body recovery has obvious effect. At present, one or two yellow-lipped fish glue market price of up to 30,000 yuan, that is, gold is also difficult to look at its back. Yellow-lipped fish is also called money slate. Yellow-lipped fish is a superior tonic, especially its swim bladder (that is, fish glue), very valuable. For the yellow-lipped fish, the state also has to protect them, they are listed as China's national key aquatic wildlife, the national secondary protection of aquatic wildlife. Artificial reproduction is also being studied. According to the old fishermen said that the yellow-lipped fish in the pre-liberation, Wenzhou coastal areas are often fished, as a superior tonic, especially fish fat (commonly known as "fish glue") is very precious, there is "as expensive as gold," said. Although the yellow-lipped fish is like the yellow fish, the swim bladder has a special shape, which is cylindrical, with a wide and flat front end, and a handful of long and thin side tubes (commonly known as whiskers) sticking out from each side, which are about as long as the swim bladder, deep into the muscle layer of the human body wall in the back, and there is no side limb on the side of the swim bladder. The upper part of the swim bladder is sticky with fat collagen; it is golden yellow in color, bright and glossy and drum-shaped ripples as the best quality. The special effect of fish glue nourishes the function of liver and kidney, such as Goryeo (ginseng), stops bleeding very well, especially for pregnant women postpartum hematochezia and so on, there are medicines to get rid of the effect of the disease. Therefore, once upon a time, if the general fishing villages caught yellow-lipped fish, the village celebrated, divided and eaten. And the swim bladder dried, treasured for maternal bleeding when the emergency, see the simplicity of one of the folk. It is said that Dongtou County Beisha Township in 1957 caught a 130-catty yellow-lipped fish, fishermen will swim bladder out of the air-drying, presented to the great leader Mao Zedong sent to Beijing. The Central Office returned it to Zhao, and replied with a letter of thanks.