Crane meat

Crane meat

(Introduction to medicine)

[source] it is the meat of Red Crowned Crane.

[animal morphology] Red Crowned Crane, also known as crane (Book of songs), white crane (Jiayou materia medica), crane (daily use materia medica), immortal bird and fetal bird (compendium).

The body length is more than 1.2 meters. The mouth is long and greenish gray with a light yellow top. The iris is brown. The main body feathers are white. The skin on the top of the head is exposed and scarlet, but not red when young; the forehead and eyes are slightly black; the throat, cheek and neck are dark brown. The second and third flight feathers are long and curved in bow shape; when the wings are folded, they cover the whole white short tail and are mistaken for tail feathers. The female is the same color as the male. Tibia, tarsometatarsal and toe are slender, gray black, hind toe small, higher than the first three toes, claw gray.

It is often involved in shoals near water. The sound is loud and the flying ability is strong. They mainly eat fish, insects, crustaceans and frogs. It propagated in Heilongjiang Province and moved to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River for winter.

The bone (crane bone) and brain marrow (crane brain) of this animal are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[flavor] salty, flat.

① Daily use materia medica: "it tastes salty, flat and poisonous. "

② "Introduction to medicine": "salty, flat, non-toxic. "

③ Huiyue medical mirror: "cold nature. "

[function indications] replenish qi and stop thirst.

① "Daily use Materia Medica": "yiqili, qufengbufei, the weak should eat it. "

② Yilin zuanyao: "detoxify snakes and insects. "

③ Huiyue medical mirror: "relieve five viscera heat, stop thirst. "

[taboo] contract medical mirror: "eating too much leads to chronic diseases. "