海藻为常用中药。始载于《神农本草经》,列为中品。陶弘景谓:“生海岛上,黑色如乱发而大少许,叶大都似藻叶。”海藻别名乌菜、海带花、海萝。海藻,味咸、性寒。软坚,消痰,利水,泄热,用于瘰疬、瘿瘤、积聚、水肿、脚气、睾丸肿痛等症。其功效还具有利水消肿,祛风止痛,常用于小便不利,湿疹疮毒、风湿痹痛,高血压等症。 Seaweed is commonly used traditional Chinese medicine. Start is contained in “Shen Nong’s Materia Medica”, as a product. Tao Hongjing said: “Health island, black as chaos and big Xu Xu, leaves mostly algae leaf. ” Algae algae, seaweed flowers, sea urchin. Seaweed, salty, cold. Soft Jian, Phlegm, diuresis, excretory heat, for gall, tumor, accumulation, edema, beriberi, testicular swelling and other embolisms. Its efficacy also has beneficial water swelling, Qufeng analgesic, commonly used in urine adverse, eczema sore, rheumatism Bitong, hypertension embolism.