Traditional Chinese medicine believes that kelp is cold and salty, enters the liver and kidney meridians, and has the functions of eliminating phlegm, softening hard mass, promoting diuresis and detumescence, resisting cancer and prolonging life, lowering blood fat and lowering blood pressure, and is suitable for goiter, night blindness, hyperlipidemia, atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, hypertension and obesity. Modern medical nutrition research believes that kelp is rich in nutrition, mainly including crude fiber, crude protein, polysaccharide, vitamins and mineral elements, among which kelp polysaccharide contains alginic acid, kelp polysaccharide, mannitol, fucosterol, ryegrass lactone, pentosan, galactose, galacturonic acid, arabinose, xylose and so on. Among them, kelp vitamins include carotene (provitamin A), nicotinic acid and vitamin B6544.

Modern medical pharmacology research believes that taurine rich in kelp can reduce blood lipid and blood pressure, enhance the toughness of microvessels and inhibit atherosclerosis, so it has a protective effect on arterial blood vessels; Kelp does not contain fat, but contains cellulose, alginic acid, alginic acid and laminin, which can inhibit the absorption of cholesterol and promote its excretion. Kelp polysaccharide, brown algae starch and kelp polysaccharide. After sulfonation, it has good lipid-lowering and anticoagulant effects, and has been applied to the clinical treatment of hyperlipidemia, and achieved certain results. It can be seen that people with hyperlipidemia and coronary heart disease have great benefits in eating fungus foods such as kelp, brown algae and laver. However, kelp is cold, and people with spleen and stomach deficiency and damp heat should use it with caution.