Chinese medicine believes that crucian carp is sweet and warm, with the efficacy of benefiting the spirit, strengthening the spleen and stomach, moving water to eliminate swelling, and clearing heat and detoxification.

Carp brain has the effect of nourishing and strengthening the brain and the spirit, eating can cure dizziness, dizziness, tinnitus, gastric pain, neurotic deafness. Carp head has the effect of tonifying the middle and raising the internal organs, and can cure long cough, long diarrhea, gastric drop, uterine prolapse by taking food. Carp meat has the effect of tonifying the spleen, stopping diarrhea, detoxification and sterilization, and can be boiled in soup to stop diarrhea, dysentery. The gall of crucian carp has the effect of clearing heat and diarrhea, and can be used externally to treat sores, anonymous swollen poisons, skin ulcers, and scalded by water and fire; it can be dropped into the throat to quickly cure fish bone fish. Carp eggs have the effect of tonifying the liver and brightening the eyes, and can be eaten to treat cataracts in the eyes, vision loss and other diseases.