The Chinese medicine hippocampus is usually sold for about 3 to 5 yuan a gram, is a more commonly used in clinical Chinese medicine, has a tonic kidney and yang, soothing and activating the muscles and collaterals, relieving cough and asthma, calming and tranquilizing the mind and other effects.

Hippocampus is very good at tonifying the kidneys, and it has a sex hormone-like effect, so you can make it into a medicinal wine and take it orally. The seahorse has a very high nutritional value, contains a variety of amino acids and taurine, and also contains a variety of antioxidant components, with the role of anti-aging.

Hippocampus medicinal uses:

Hippocampus because of its head like a horse's head and got its name, but interestingly it is a peculiar and precious near-land shallow-sea small fish, belonging to the order of the sea dragon, family Hylidae hippocampus head side flat, head each side of the head with two nostrils, head and torso into a right-angled shape, the thorax and abdomen protruding, is a thornback order of the family Hylidae warm sea born several small fish, it is a kind of a fish, is a kind of a small fish, is a kind of a fish. It is a collective name for several small warm-sea species of fishes in the order Spinifex, a small marine animal with a length of 5-30 centimeters.

Named for the head curved and the body at nearly a right angle, the head is a horse's head and forms an angle with the body, the muzzle is long and tubular, the mouth is small, and there is one dorsal fin, which are all composed of fin strips. The eyes can move independently of each other. Seahorses move slowly, but can be very efficient in catching fast-moving, good hiding copepods, distributed in the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, the Pacific Ocean, Australia.

Hippocampus is warm in nature, sweet in flavor, and has the effect of tonifying the kidney and strengthening the yang, warming the blood, calming the mind, dispersing lumps and swelling, relaxing the tendons and activating the collaterals, and relieving cough and asthma. Hippocampus is warm and helps Yang, can warm the meridians, but also has the effect of blood circulation, the main treatment of kidney deficiency, impotence, enuresis. Sex hormone-like effect: ethanol extract of hippocampus (i.e. "hippocampus wine") can induce and prolong the estrus period of female mice.

It increases the weight of the uterus and ovaries, and also increases the weight of the prostate, seminal vesicles, and raphe muscles in male mice, which shows an androgen-like effect.

Anti-aging: hippocampus can enhance the hypoxia tolerance in mice, reduce the activity of monoamine oxidase, reduce the content of lipid peroxide in the body. In addition, various hippocampus extracts have calcium channel blocker effects. By blocking calcium inward flow, it achieves the effect of protecting neurons.

Contains amino acids and proteins, fatty acids, steroids and inorganic elements. The three-spotted seahorse contains stearic acid, cholesterol, cholesterol glycol, etc.; the threaded seahorse and the spiny seahorse also contain acetylcholine lipase, cholinesterase, protease. Because it is a wild resource, the difficulty of artificial rearing is high, coupled with the fact that the seahorse belongs to the second class of national protected animals, the market recognition of the value of seahorses has gradually increased. Therefore, the market price of seahorses is gradually rising.