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(notes on materia medica)

[synonym], Xuying (Erya), Diaoyu (dietotherapy materia medica), Youya (compendium), Shuiding (Yilin Zhuanyao), shuihulu (Chinese animal atlas? Birds).

[source] it is the meat or the whole body of small animals in the family of daceae.

Animal morphology??

It is about 26 cm long and small like a duck. Mouth narrow and pointed, black, white tip, near the mouth crack yellow green. The iris is yellow. It is dark brown in the eye, chin and upper throat; red chestnut in the lower throat, ear feather and neck side: dark brown in the upper body, with pale tips of some feathers; grayish brown in the primary and secondary feathers, with grayish black tips of primary feathers and white tips of secondary feathers; dark grayish black in the large and medium coverts, with light blackish brown in the small coverts; very short tail feathers, with brown, brown, white and other colors; grayish brown around the chest, flank and anus. The tip of the fore chest feather is pale or white, the back chest and abdomen are mercerized white, slightly stained with grayish brown; the axillary feather and underwing covert are white. Foot near the end, slate gray, toe with broad claws, toe side with petal web membrane.

It inhabits in the marsh where water and grass grow. Good at diving, often in pairs or groups to swim on the surface, camp floating nest in the reeds. Food frogs, small fish, shrimp, aquatic beetles, etc. A marsh or swamp of eastern Asia. It is found in the southeast coast of China.

[nature and taste] ① Yinshan Zhengzheng: "it tastes sweet, flat and nontoxic. "

② Yilin zuanyao: "sweet and salty, cold. "

[Guijing] compendium of materia medica: "start with Taiyin and foot Shaoyin meridians. "

[function indications] tonifying deficiency.

① Meng Shen: "tonifying deficiency. "

② "Yinshan Zhengzheng" says: "Buzhong Yiqi. It is suitable to be roasted. "

③ Yilin zuanyao: "the evil of lung and kidney can be eliminated. "

④ "With the rest of the diet": Buzhong appetizer. "