cuckoo

cuckoo

(notes on materia medica)

[synonyms] Pei Yu (songs of Chu), Yu Zhou (Erya), Zi Yu Niao, Zhou Yan (Shuowen), Yu Yu (Linhai foreign body records), Du Yu, Zi Gui (Bird Classics), Xie Bao (notes to bird Classics), Yuan Niao (Youya), Cui GUI, Yang que (compendium).

[source] it is the flesh or whole body of Rhododendron.

[animal morphology] Rhododendron parvum

The body length is about 28 cm. Mouth dark black, base yellow, slender and curved. Yellow eyelids. The cheek is gray. The back is bluish gray; the wing is long, the outer wing has white stripes on the inner feather. The tail feather is gray black, with white spots along the axis of the tail feather in the center and white stripes on the outside. Abdomen white, mixed with small black stripes. The feet are small, yellow and opposite toed.

He often lives in the dense forest and crows in the early summer. Caterpillars eat well. They usually lay eggs in the nest of warbler. Several times in the east of China in summer. In the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and to the north of the Yangtze River are summer migratory birds.

[nature and taste] Compendium: "meat: sweet, flat, non-toxic. "

[functions and indications] the compendium of Medical Sciences: "in the treatment of sores and flaccidities, there are insects, thin cutting, hot sticking.". "

Chinese PinYin : Du Juan