Woodpecker

Woodpecker

(compendium)

Another name: zhuomu (Erya), shanpeck (Jiayou materia medica), huolaoya (compendium).

[source] the meat or whole body of woodpeckers.

[animal form] green woodpecker

The body length is about 30cm. Straight mouth, strong as chisel. The tongue is slender and retractable, with short hooks at the apex. The head of male is red; the head of female is not red. There is a black stripe from the base of the mouth to the eye; the throat is pink white. The body feathers are mainly green; the wings are dark brown with white spots on the outer edge. The trunk of tail feather is as hard as spine, the outer part is very short, and the covering of tail is yellowish green. Short feet, 4 toes, 2 toes forward, 2 toes backward, with sharp claws.

It lives in the mountains and forests, climbing trees and eating moths. Nest in a tree hole. It is widely distributed and can be seen everywhere except in most parts of Xinjiang and Tibet.

In addition, the large spotted woodpecker has black upper body, white spots on the bottom, white upper abdomen and red lower abdomen, while the female has pure black back without red spots. It is widely distributed throughout the country. It is also used as medicine in Northeast China.

Sweet and smooth.

① Jiadiao materia medica: "it's flat and nontoxic. "

② "Gangmu": "glycine, flat, non-toxic. "

③ "Suixiju diet spectrum": "Gan, Ping. "

Functions and indications: tonifying deficiency, relieving depression and calming liver. Treatment of asthenia, malnutrition, choking diaphragm, epilepsy, hemorrhoids and fistula.

① Jiadiao materia medica: "the main hemorrhoid fistula and tooth chancre hidden, off feed"

② Compendium: "treating wind epilepsy. "

③ According to the diet of suixiju: "open the diaphragm, relieve the choking and calm the shock. "

④ "Nourishing and tonifying deficiency" in Jilin Chinese herbal medicine. Treat male and female tuberculosis, infantile malnutrition. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction or calcined powder. External use: calcined powder in caries hole.

[selection] ① the treatment of fistula has a head, and the pus and blood are not only produced: a woodpecker (bird), burning ashes, and two money daggers under wine. (Doctor Yao Fang)

② Treatment of insect tooth pain: woodpecker ash storage for the end, Na boring hole. (Qian Jin Fang)

③ Cure male and female tuberculosis: a woodpecker. Put it in a closed container, seal it, burn it through with fire, take it out and grind it into fine powder. Three times, yellow rice wine.

④ Treatment of women's tuberculosis: a woodpecker (baked in tile), swirling flowers, angelica tail each three money. We studied the details together. Take it four times. Take once in the morning and once in the evening, yellow rice wine as a guide, sweat.

⑤ Treatment of children can not stand and walk: a woodpecker. Blanch feathers in boiling water and cook them. Eat all the meat and viscera. The remains of bones, claws, mouth, etc. are baked on tiles, ground into fine powder and taken. (3) Chinese herbal medicine of Jilin Province