Dried kelp is dried kelp. Kunbu is the name of Chinese herbal medicine. Kelp is known as "longevity vegetable", "marine vegetable" and "iodine-containing champion". From the nutritional value, it is a kind of health food with long life. Kelp has high nutritional value, and is rich in protein, fat, carbohydrate, dietary fiber, calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene, vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, nicotinic acid and iodine.

Not all kelp is called kelp. Only kelp that can be used as medicine is called kelp. Kelp can be used as medicine, mainly because it grows mature, and the thickness of kelp leaves should be more than 3 mm Thallus Laminariae is a herb included in China Pharmacopoeia, and its medicinal source is dried thallus of Laminariaceae or Thallus Laminariae (Thunb.). Fishing and drying in summer and autumn.

Kunbu smells fishy and salty. Liver, stomach and kidney meridians entered. It has the functions of softening and resolving hard mass, eliminating phlegm and promoting diuresis. Used for phlegm and edema. Softening and resolving hard mass, eliminating phlegm and promoting diuresis. Scabies, scrofula, testicular swelling and pain, phlegm edema.

Kunbu is also called "black dish", "goose web dish" and "five palm dishes". Phaeophyta, pteridophyta. Kunbu is mostly distributed in Liaodong, Shandong, Zhejiang and Fujian. For food and medicine.