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(food materia medica by Wang Ying)

Another name: Shuiji, Qiuji.

[source] it is the meat of Yangji.

[animal morphology] Yangji

The body length is about 30 cm. Head small: mouth longer than head, base red, apex light black. The neck is long; the upper body feathers are dark gray brown with black stripes, especially on the head. The surface of the two wings is mostly grayish brown, the lower body is brown, and the two armpits are white; the perianal and lower tail coverts are black and white, and the feather ends are white. The feet are reddish brown, the front toes are quite long, about the same length as the mouth, and the toes are webbed.

It lives in swamp or near water grass. Walking fast, not good at flying high. Eat earthworms, insects, plant buds, etc. It propagated in Northeast China and Hebei, and moved to Fujian and Guangdong for overwintering.

[nature and taste] Compendium: "sweet, warm, non-toxic. "

[function and indications] Wang Ying's food materia medica: "treating ant fistula. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: cooking.