Pheasant

Pheasant

(notes on materia medica)

[synonyms] Chiyi (Shanhaijing),? (Hanshu), Caiji (yizhoushu), Jinji (Qinjing), Jinji (Gangmu).

[source] it is the meat of Caragana korshinskii.

[animal morphology] Caragana korshinskii

Body length is about 100 cm. The mouth is short and firm with yellow horns. The eyes are brown with naked eyelids and yellow flesh. The male has a golden yellow silky crest on his head, covering his neck; his face, chin and throat are rusty red; his neck is surrounded by golden brown fan-shaped feathers, forming a shawl shape, with blue and black double thin edges on each feather edge; his upper back is dark green, and the feather edge is downy black; the rest of his back and waist are deep golden yellow, and the waist side turns dark red, and each feather branch is scattered like hair; the tail length accounts for 3 / 4 of his body length, and the central tail feather is very long, dark brown, It is full of cinnamon spots; the lateral tail feathers are cinnamon yellow and black brown wavy, alternating with horizontal spots; the base of the upper tail covert is also dark red, and the end is dark red; the shoulder feathers are dark red, and the innermost feather and its covert are dark blue; the secondary feather and its covert are black and decorated with chestnut; the primary feather is dark brown, and its edge is brown yellow. The lower body from the throat to a few times pure for the deep red, perianal light chestnut. The feet are short and healthy with yellow horns. The female is brown on the head and hind head with cinnamon yellow; brown on the back with black mattress transverse spots; thicker black spots on the wings; brown on the rest of the upper body with black moth like patterns; sharp and pale on the tail; brown on the chest and flanks with black spots; pure brown on the abdomen; black spots on the covert under the tail.

Usually, they live alone or in pairs on rocky mountains and slopes, and appear among bushes and bamboo forests. Good Mercedes Benz, rarely take off. It is distributed in Southeast Qinghai, Gansu and southern Shaanxi, and reaches Guizhou, Hunan and Guangxi in the south.

[nature and taste] ① in the Compendium: "sweet, warm, slightly toxic. "

② Yilin zuanyao: "Gan, Xin, Wen. "

[function indications] Yilin zuanyao: "function is the same as pheasant (warming the middle, tonifying deficiency, benefiting liver and blood). "