海马为生活在近陆浅海中的小型鱼类,属海龙科。作为药材,它具有壮阳补肾、镇静安神、散结消肿、舒筋活络、止咳平喘、强心、催生等作用。我国每年需要的海马干品大部分依靠进口,价格昂贵。1957年,我国南方开始海马的试养工作,1969年中国科学院海洋研究所从广东运回一批三斑海马,在青岛试养成功。1990年,青岛海洋大学和 The hippocampus is a small fish that lives in shallow waters near the sea. As a medicinal material, it has aphrodisiac kidney, sedative and soothing, Sanjie swelling, Shujin, cough and asthma, cardiac, birth and so on. Most of the dried hippocampus needed in our country relies on imports each year, which is expensive. In 1957, trials in the hippocampus began in southern China. In 1969, the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences shipped back a batch of three-spot hippocampus from Guangdong and successfully experimented in Qingdao. In 1990, Qingdao Ocean University and