Stork bone

Stork bone

(bielu)

[source] it is the skeleton of white stork.

[animal morphology] White Stork (Tao Hongjing), also known as guanque (later Han Dynasty), stork, negative cauldron, heijir, Beizao, Zao skirt (Lu Ji's Shi Shu), Stork (BIE Lu), old stork and Diaoyu stork.

It is about 120 cm long. The mouth is thick and healthy, straight and slightly flat, with black corners, tapered apex and light color. The iris is pale pink and the outer ring is black; the naked part of the eye and chin sac is vermilion. Most of them are white; the shoulder feathers, wing coverts, primary and secondary flight feathers are brilliant black, and most of them are silvery. The foot is long, dark red, and the lower part of the tibia is exposed; the toe is long in the middle, and the base of the forward three toes is connected by webs, the position of the hind toes is not higher than that of the other toes, and the claws are short and blunt.

They live in open marshes and wet grasslands, sleep in high trees at night, and often live in groups. It propagates in the north of China and overwinters in the Yangtze River Valley and south of the Yangtze River.

The meat of this animal (stork meat) is also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

(1) bielu: "it tastes sweet and nontoxic. "

② "On medicinal properties": "great cold. "

[function indications] it is used to treat tuberculosis, chest and abdominal pain, laryngeal obstruction and snake bite.

① Bielu: "the main ghost Gu Zhu Du poison, five corpses heart disease. "

② "Treatise on medicinal properties": "treating abdominal pain caused by corpse and ghost. Burn yellow, end, hollow warm wine, square inch dagger. "

③ According to the collection of Materia Medica, "the foot bones and mouth are in charge of throat obstruction, snake and cobra bite, and children's flash mania, and the abdomen is full of fullness. Take it with boiling juice, and also burn it as black ash drink. "

[selection of prescriptions] for the treatment of accumulation, chest pain with back, walking in impermanent places, or hiding, or swelling in the abdomen, or dying but painful: stork bone three inches, mangcao, dansha (yizuo), oyster (yizuo "Peony") each four points, Guixin, Pueraria each two points, spotted cat 14 pieces, 40 pieces, one piece, Yuanjing 14 pieces, twelve flavors, the end, honey pill, take as Xiaodou big two pills, three days, to know . (stork bone pill in Qian Jin Fang)