Babbler

Babbler

(notes on materia medica)

[synonyms] strange owl (Erya), hook hawk (materia medica), big headed hawk (convenience diet), horn hawk, hub hawk, hawk, hawk, owl (compendium), owl (Ben Jing Feng Yuan), ghost Dove (materia medica Qiu yuan), night owl (Chinese animal atlas birds), horizontal tiger, hate Fox and old rabbit (Jilin Chinese herbal medicine).

[source] it is the meat or bone of the red horned owl.

[animal form] red Horned Owl

The body length can reach 20 cm. The mouth is dark green, and the tip of the lower mouth is near yellow. The iris is yellow. The surface of the upper body, including both wings and tail, is mostly grayish brown, covered with insect venom like dark brown fine lines; the head and back are also mixed with white brown spots; the ear feathers are elongated and prominent, the base of the feather is brown, and the end of the feather is the same color as the top of the head; the face is grayish brown, densely mixed with thin black lines; the face is surrounded by an indistinct pale brown collar; the base of the first feather is brown white, and the end is black. The outer part of the lateral shoulder feather is mostly brownish white; the tip of the feather is black brown; except for the innermost part, the outer part of all the flying feathers is mostly black brown and decorated with brownish white or light grayish brown, as if forming a transverse spot; the flange is white or slightly brown. There are incomplete brownish white transverse spots on the tail. Its chin is brownish white; the rest of the lower body is grayish white, densely mixed with grayish brown fine transverse spots; its chest and flanks are also dark brown with dry lines of feathers and decorated with brown chestnut; its axillary feathers and underwing coverts are almost pure brownish white; its leg coverings are light brown, densely covered with brown spots: its toes are gray.

It lives in mountainous areas, and it is a staple food for insects. Nest in a tree hole. It is distributed in the east of China and reaches Sichuan in the West.

[nature and taste] 1. In the book of Ben Jing Feng Yuan: "sour, slightly salty, little poisonous. "

② "Seeking the source of Materia Medica": "sour and salty, cold. "

Functions and indications: dispelling wind, calming shock and detoxifying. Treatment of vertigo, epilepsy, fever, malaria, choking food.

① Compendium: "to cure malaria. "

② In the book of Ben Jing Feng Yuan: "treating Laohuang. "

③ "Jilin Chinese herbal medicine": "detoxification, calm. It can cure mouse sores, choking food and epilepsy. "

[usage and dosage] for oral use: cook or burn xingyanmo, 2-3 yuan; or bake it into pills or powder.

[selection] 1. To cure wind deficiency and vertigo, the big headed eagle should be killed to remove the hair and cook food; to burn the bone to preserve the nature and take wine. (convenience diet)

② Cure epilepsy: an owl, thick with mud paste, put in the kitchen pit for 100 days, take out and grind. Three dollars a time, twice a day.

③ Treatment of lymph node tuberculosis (mouse sores): an owl. I'll cook it.

④ Choking food: two little owls without hair. Pack it with yellow mud, calcine it and grind it into fine powder. Warm wine, two money each time, twice a day. (2) Jilin Chinese herbal medicine is published below.)

⑤ Treatment of malaria: one Wagtail. To hair, intestines, oil and food. (compendium)

⑥ To cure Laohuang: boil and bake Baijiu, seven pieces of Tongda eel, steam them with peppermint, add one jin of Dioscorea, mash and bake them into balls, and add three yuan of wine on an empty stomach. (Ben Jing Feng Yuan)

Chinese PinYin : Chi Xiu