Misgurnus anguillicaudatus is different from other fish in appearance, shape and living habits. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, loach is a kind of hair, warm and dense. People with inflammation should not eat loach, otherwise eating loach may aggravate the symptoms of inflammation. In addition, postoperative patients had better not eat loach, so as not to affect wound healing.

For cancer patients, it is necessary to analyze specific problems. If the patient has esophageal cancer, intestinal cancer and other cancers, it is recommended not to eat loach. Because the cancer-prone patients of intestinal cancer are mostly people with unhealthy living habits and are obese, they often induce inflammation in the body due to dietary problems and other reasons, which has the nature of inflammation. Eating hair such as chicken head, pig head, goose, chicken wings, chicken feet, donkey meat, roe deer, beef and mutton will make the body in a sub-health state with excessive internal fire, and may even induce the proliferation and spread of cancer cells again, so we should reduce the intake of hair.