Meat

Meat

(Tang materia medica)

Pork (Sheng Hui Fang).

[source] it is the meat of the ferret badger.

[animal morphology] pig badger (compendium), also known as (?) (songs of Chu), badger (Erya Guo Pu note), badger dolphin (materia medica Collection), ground pig (yilinzuoyao), sand badger.

It is stout, 65-70 cm in length, 14-17 cm in tail length, and weighs about 10 kg. It looks like a badger with a wide forehead. Snout longer, glabrous between nose pad and upper lip. The limbs are stout, with pale yellow claws on both front and rear limbs. The whole body is black brown and mixed with white. Dorsal hair base white, middle black brown, hair tip white. There is a white longitudinal line on the head from the tip of the nose to the neck, and a short white line on each cheek from the corner of the mouth to the back of the head. The ear margin is white, and the throat and neck are white or yellowish white. The limbs are brown and black. The tail is white or yellowish white.

The ecology of badger is similar to that of badger. It can be found from plain to high mountain with an altitude of about 3000 meters. Living in caves or caves, underground. Nocturnal activity, ferocious, weak vision, sensitive smell. Omnivorous, to plant roots, stems, fruits or reptiles, fish, birds, rats for food, but also eat insects. In spring, the litter size is about 4. Distribution in East China, South China, southwest, North China and Shaanxi, Gansu and other places.

The animal's bone and fat oil are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[collection] capture in winter.

Sour and smooth.

① "Dietotherapy Materia Medica": "flat, sour taste. "

② "Gangmu": "glycine, flat, non-toxic. "

③ Yilin zuanyao: "sweet, salty, flat. "

[Guijing] compendium of materia medica: "start with Taiyin. "

Functions and indications: tonifying the spleen and stomach and promoting diuresis. Treatment of deficiency, fatigue, emaciation, water swelling, dysentery, infantile malnutrition.

① "Tang Materia Medica" says: "if the water swells for a long time and does not hang over the dead, it will serve as soup and food, and then enter the water. "

② Meng Shen: "if you suffer from red and white dysentery for a long time, you can cook the meat in the dew and eat it with sauce tomorrow. And thin people can be cooked with five flavors, it is long fat meat, fat white. "

③ "The book of Materia Medica" says: "master the weak labor, promote the general mood, benefit the Tibetan government and kill insects. "

④ "Treating cough and deficiency of Qi with herbs" in the book. "

⑤ Yilin zuanyao: "Buzhong, Yiqi and blood, killing insects, treating malnutrition.". "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: cooking.

[formula selection] ten kinds of water diseases: half a jin of pork is cut carefully. On the three with japonica rice, water three liters, into the onion, soy sauce, pepper, ginger porridge, daily fasting food. (Sheng Hui Fang)