Cuckoo

[source] from the "Compendium of Materia Medica gleaning". [name] D ù Ju ā n English [name] Little cuckoo [alias] any of 鴂, Jun, Zi Jun, Du Yu, cuckoo bird, bird, resentment, urge to return, Yang bird [source] Medicine source: Ericaceae Rhododendron animal meat. Latin plant animal mineral name: Cuculus poliocephalus Latham Harvesting and storage: Summer catch, kill, remove the feathers and offal, fresh or dried. [] the original form small cuckoo, body length of about 28cm. The upper part of the body is gray, but gray eyelid yellow cheek. Oba Haikuroki, the white spots along the plume axis, the lateral white stripes. Lower body white, mixed with small black markings. Dark black mouth, mouth and mouth yellow; tarsometatarsal, toes and claws are yellow. [distribution] Ecological environment: often habitat in the dense forest breeding period often in willow clump or reed sugar water of tall trees. Not since the nesting. Good Ming, five sound once, song endless. Feed on insects. Resource distribution: distribution in most area of our country, the summer in East china. In the Yangtze River and the area to the north for the summer migratory birds. [] taste sweet; flat [] the heart meridian tropism [indications] nourishing tonic; poison; Huoxue zhitong. The main after Tixu disease; deficiency of Qi and blood; sore fistula; traumatic swelling; adverse joints [usage] oral: cooking, 1-2 only; or burn existence, grind end, each time 1.5-3g. External use: moderate, thin cut paste. [the paper] ":" Compendium of Materia Medica sore fistula worm, thinly sliced, fried paste. [] excerpts from "Chinese Materia Medica" http://chinese-herbal-medicines-directory.blogspot.com/