Cuckoo

[ source ] from the" compendium of Materia Medica" gleaning.
[ ] Pinyin name Dù Juā n
English name [ ] Little cuckoo
[ alias ] any of Jue, Gui, son of Du Yu, the cuckoo bird, Gui, blame the bird, son, urge to return, Yang bird
[ source ]
Medicine medium source: Rhododendron simsii animal small cuckoo meat.
Latin botanical name: Cuculus poliocephalus Latham animal fossil
Harvest and storage: Summer capture, kill, removing the feathers and offal, fresh or dried.
[ ] the original morphology of small cuckoo, body length is about 28cm. The upper body is gray, but gray cheeks; eyelid yellow. Tail black, with white spots along the central shaft, the outer with white stripes. Lower body white, mixed with fine black markings. Mouth black mouth and mouth, yellow; the tarsometatarsal, toes and claws are yellow.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: often perches in the dense broad-leaved forest breeding period often also in Liu Cong or reed sugar water on a tall tree. Not since the nesting. Good call, five once, tweet off. Feed on insects.
Resource distribution: distribution in most parts of China, summer all over the eastern china. In the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the area to the north for the summer birds.
[ ] taste sweet; flat
[ ] to the Heart Sutra
[ ] nourishing tonifying functions; detoxifying insecticides; promoting blood circulation and relieving pain. The main after Tixu disease; deficiency of Qi and blood; sore fistula; traumatic swelling and pain; adverse joints
[ usage] oral administration: cooking,1-2 only; or burned dark, grind end, every time 1.5-3g. External: appropriate, thin cut paste.
[ ] the treatise" compendium of Materia Medica": sores healing fistula worm, cut, paste of processing.
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]

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