It can cure diseases. Has the effects of expelling pathogenic wind, treating malnutrition, invigorating spleen, benefiting qi, inducing diuresis and reducing swelling. Therefore, lying-in women, rheumatic patients and malnourished children in the three northern regions often seek snakehead as an auxiliary diet therapy.

Mullet is also called crucian carp, flower fish, grouper and god of wealth fish. Shennong Materia Medica lists it as a good product, which is one of the precious freshwater fish with high economic value, and also one of the carnivorous freshwater fish that feed on freshwater fish, and has the reputation of "a good product among fish".

Snakehead is rich in nutrition, containing protein, human fat, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, iron and a variety of citric acid, which is a low-calorie and high-protein food. In terms of function and efficacy, mullet is cold and sweet, and has the functions of strengthening the spleen and regulating the stomach, inducing diuresis and reducing swelling.

At the dietary level, because mullet nourishes yin and blood, there is no taboo to take it. Moreover, mullet is more suitable for patients with ascites due to liver cirrhosis, cardiogenic edema, nephritis edema, malnutrition edema, pregnancy edema, beriberi edema, as well as physical weakness, hypoproteinemia, spleen and stomach qi deficiency, malnutrition, anemia, hemorrhoids, scabies, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and other symptoms.