Beaver meat

Beaver meat

(notes to the classic of Materia Medica)

[source] it is the meat or whole body of leopard cat.

[animal form] leopard cat, also known as civet (the book of songs), Kuili (Erya Guo's notes), wild cat (shenghuifang), civet.

It looks like a domestic cat. The body length is 50-65cm, the tail length is about half of the body length, and the weight is 2-3kg. The back of the body is light yellow, with four brown black longitudinal lines from the top of the head to the shoulder, and two of them extend back to the base of the tail intermittently. There are several lines of large and irregular black spots on the shoulders and sides of the body, and smaller black spots on the waist, buttocks and lower limbs. There are long white spots on the inside of the head and two black lines on both sides of the cheek. Submaxillary, chest, abdomen and inside of limbs are milky white, with brown black spots. The tail looks like a back color with brown black spots and half rings.

It lives in the dense forests in the valley and the thickets in the countryside. Solitary or hermaphroditic, mostly nocturnal, is a common species of wildcats. From northeast to North China, from Gansu, Sichuan and Yunnan to Jiangsu, Guangdong and Taiwan, it has its traces.

The bone of this animal (civet bone) is also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[nature and taste] ① Qianjin Shizhi: "warm, non-toxic. "

② "Gangmu": "Gan, Ping, non-toxic. "

[function and indications] it is used to treat intestinal wind, lower blood, hemorrhoids and hemorrhoids, scrofula and touring wind.

① Qianjin Shizhi: "Buzhong Yiqi. "

② Shu materia medica: "treating rat fistula. "

③ Rihuazi materia medica: "governing the wind of travel. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: calcined and preserved powder. One to two dollars.

"Don't eat civet meat if you have Veratrum," says Ben Cao Jing Ji Zhu. "

[prescription selection] 1. For the treatment of cold large intestine, bleeding and pain of anal prolapse: a wild beaver. Take a large porcelain vase. If you can hold it, put it in the bottle. Use thick mud to solidify it. Wait for the bottle to dry. Burn it in a big fire. Then you can reach the end of the smoke. Stay in the fire and wait for the cold to take it out. Add half a liang of musk powder. Grind it evenly and collect it in the porcelain. Every time before eating, drink warm porridge to adjust two money. (Sheng Hui Fang)

② For the treatment of intestinal bleeding, or hemorrhoids and hemorrhoids: one Beaver (plate in a tile jar), half a jin of jujube, half a jin of trifoliate orange, four liang of licorice (inch section), two liang of pig tooth soap horn. Put them in jars, cover them with tiles, drill small holes in tiles, and make them dry with salt and mud; make a pit, fix them with cross tiles, and make the jars not touch the ground, and burn them with charcoal until the black smoke is exhausted. If there is smoke, remove them from the fire and spend the night with a wet spoon. On the piece of research order is very fine, each take two money, salt soup, hollow food before taking. (the Yang family's collection of prescriptions, Rusheng SAN)

③ Treatment of hemorrhoids is pain: to civet meat for soup food, or for preserved food. (waitai)

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