Raccoon dog meat

Raccoon dog meat

(Ben Cao Tu Jing)

[source] it is the meat of raccoon dog.

[animal form] raccoon dog (the book of songs), also known as golden badger (yilinzhuanyao), beaver.

The body looks like a fox, but it is small and thick. The body length is 50-65 cm, the tail length is about 25 cm, and the weight is 4-6 kg. The lips and ears are short, and there are long fluffy pale hairs on the cheeks. Short limbs. The tail is short and fluffy. There are obvious "eight" shaped black lines on both sides of the head and cheek, and the snout is gray brown. The back is brownish gray, slightly orange, the center is mixed with black, and there are no significant black longitudinal lines from the beginning to the end; the body side is grayish yellow or brownish yellow; the abdominal hair is light; the limbs are light black or brown; the color under the tail is light.

They live in valleys, grasslands and forests near rivers and live in caves. Day falls and night rises, action is not quick, can climb the tree. Food is very miscellaneous, mainly fish, rats, but also food, vegetables, frogs, fruits, cereals and other plant food. Distributed in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Sichuan and other places.

[nature and taste] 1. In the compendium, it is sweet, warm and nontoxic. "

② Yilin zuanyao: "Gan, Ping."

[functions and indications] 1. In the book of Materia Medica, it is said that "governing the Yuan Dynasty, hiding deficiency and weakness, and women's deficiency and exhaustion. "

② Yilin zuanyao: "killing insects to cure malnutrition. "