Is it a fish?

Monopterus Albus is a fish. It is a tropical and warm temperate fish that lives at the bottom of the water body. It mainly lives in muddy waters such as rice fields, lakes, ponds, rivers and ditches. It likes to drill caves, seldom moves during the day, and forages at night. It is a ferocious carnivorous fish. it can prey on all kinds of small animals, such as insects and their larvae, as well as frogs, tadpoles and small fish.

Monopterus Albus is widely distributed in and around eastern Asia, ranging from Southeast Asia in the west, the Philippines in the east, Japan in the north and the East Indies in the south. It often lives at the bottom of muddy water, such as rice fields, rivers, streams, ponds, canals and lakes, and is produced all over China, especially in the Yangtze River Basin, Liaoning and Tianjin.

The tender meat of Monopterus Albus has high nutritional value. It is a delicacy on the table, and the meat, blood, head and skin all have certain medicinal value. According to the Compendium of Materia Medica, Monopterus Albus has the functions of tonifying blood, tonifying qi, anti-inflammation, disinfection and eliminating rheumatism. Monopterus Albus meat can treat fatigue cough, damp-heat itching, intestinal wind and hemorrhoid leakage, deafness and other diseases. Monopterus Albus blood dripping into the ear can treat chronic suppurative otitis media, nasal drip can treat epistaxis (epistaxis), external use can treat mouth and eye deviation, facial nerve paralysis. The head of yellow eel is calcined and served with warm wine on an empty stomach, which can cure hard pain in women's milk nucleus.