Cat meat

Cat meat

(compendium)

[source] it is the meat of feline.

[animal form] cat (the book of songs), also known as cat and Beaver (behind the elbow), house Beaver (Tang materia medica), black circle (gegu Yaolun).

The body length is about 60 cm, and the tail is different in length. The head and face are slightly round. The upper lip is 2-cleft in the center, with 20-30 bristles around the mouth. The ears are short and can rotate freely. The eyes are large, and the pupils shrink into lines under strong light, and expand into circles in the dark. The nipple is suitable to be taken from the tongue. The body is long, the limbs are short, the toe is linear, the forelimb is 5 toes, the hind limb is 4 toes, has the retractable sharp claw, the toe bottom has the soft meat pad. The whole body is covered with soft hair of different colors, including yellow, black, white, grayish brown and Beaver spots.

He is flexible and good at jumping and climbing. Vision and hearing are sensitive. They are fond of catching rats and sometimes eat frogs and snakes. They are raised in most parts of the country.

The animal's fur (cat's fur), head or skull (cat's head), liver (cat's liver), placenta (cat's coat) and fatty oil (cat's oil) are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[nature and taste] sweet and sour, warm.

① "Gangmu": "sweet acid, warm, non-toxic. "

② Yilin zuanyao: "sour, sweet, flat. "

③ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it is warm in nature, sweet, sour and salty in taste, and non-toxic. "

"Into the liver and kidney. "

[function indications] it is used to treat asthenia, rheumatism, arthralgia, scrofula, sores and scalds.

① "The compendium of Medical Sciences": "to cure the disease of labor, rat fistula.". "

② "Seeking truth from Materia Medica" says: "invigorating blood, treating tuberculosis and scrofula. "

③ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "treat rheumatic arthralgia, disperse scrofula and tuberculosis, supplement deficiency and labor, eliminate insect distension, and treat fire injury in soup. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: boiled food or calcined powder. External use: burn ash, grind and apply.

[Yi Ji] "Ben Jing Feng Yuan" says: "it helps the dampness to produce poison. If there is dampness poison, people should avoid it. "

[prescription selection] ① for the treatment of scrofula with nucleus and pus and blood: it's a cat or a beaver. It's like eating soup, and it's hollow. (behind the elbow)

② Treatment of thrombocytopenic purpura: appropriate amount of cat meat, cooked soup, eat at will. (selected materials of new TCM therapies in Jiangsu Province)