squirrel

squirrel

(Yilin zuanyao)

Another name is chinchilla.

[source] the whole family of squirrels.

[animal form] squirrel

The body length is 18-26 cm, the tail is long and fluffy, more than half of the body length. The body is slender, the forelimbs are shorter than the hind limbs, the forepaws are exposed, the hindpaws are hairy, the claws are sharp and hook shaped. On the back, body sides, lateral limbs and shoulders, the winter hair is gray or grayish brown, the summer hair is dark brown, and the neck and abdomen are white. There are obvious geographical differences in hair color, with gray in the north and black in the south.

They live in coniferous forest or mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forest in sub frigid zone, live in tree holes or nest on trees. It feeds on pine nuts or other drupes, mushrooms, twigs and buds, and sometimes insects. They breed 1-2 times a year, and give birth to 4-6 offspring per litter. The hair is changed twice a year. Distribution of northeast and Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Hebei, Shanxi, Henan and other places.

[nature and taste] Yilin zuanyao: "sweet and salty, flat. "

[function indications] yilinzuanyao: "kill chancre, cure fistula, eliminate melon and fruit accumulation. "

[prescription selection] ① for tuberculosis, pleurisy and menstrual pain in women: six to three cents for squirrel (black fever). Three times a day. (animal and plant folk medicine)

② Treatment of hemorrhoids: spread it with black powder of squirrel. (animal and plant folk medicine)