Side of traditional Chinese medicine replenishing qi (123) of quail

Quail (ā n chun) is the smaller size of a kind of phasianidae. Adult weight is 66 ~ 66 g, length 148 ~ 182 mm, tail is about 46 mm long.

Male adult birds (first summer) : frontal several full for chestnut yellow head, head and neck, dark brown plume end deep chestnut yellow; The central with a narrow white crown. After supercilium white, from the forehead of the neck; Rim of the eye, eye and cheek were auburn first; Ear coverts chestnut brown. On the back for shallow Huang Li color, yellowish-white feather dry lines; Lower back to dark brown tail coverts, more sharp light yellow feathers dry lines on both ends; Inside and outside Xia brown wavy thin horizontal spot; Scapular versa. Most for the two wings with yellowish olive, mixed with yellowish-white horizontal spot; Outside the first primary Xia narrow, margin with pale yellow, other primary Xia are shallowly wavy cross auburn spot; Inside and outside of the secondary flight feathers Xia cross also has the same color spots, turning inward. Tail feathers, dark brown Bai Zui base more eye and left-edge; Lateral forehead and chin with white and slightly buff dry lines and primaries, and auburn horizontal spot. The front of the chin and throat and neck auburn, cheeks and eyes first auburn together; Starting from the neck, stretch out a wide black brown, along the center line to the throat of the central, expand into dark brown anchor shape grain, on both sides of the extended upward, a few connected with ear coverts. On grey chest touch chestnut, base white; Their neck and chest side is black, brown, mixed with chestnut brown, and mid-winter clear white dry lines; Two threats chestnut brown, mixed with black, provide wider mid-winter of white dry lines; The grey chest and under tail coverts.

Quail iris reddish brown; Corners of the blue; Fu, study of pale yellow.

Male adult birds (adult) : from the top of the head to the anterior portion, chestnut yellow feather edge is first summer for wide, mostly covered with dark brown. Before back to fawn, mostly black brown back, yellowish-white feather dry lines is first summer developed; Wing and tail feather color a few the same as the first summer. Pinnae longer just above the chin and throat, come to a point at the end; The two pinna white, mixed with chestnut; Chin and throat to the central with a brown anchor shape grain is not obvious, on both sides of the part to a dark brown cock, direct ear coverts. Below the throat white; Before it on the neck and chest at the junction of a shallow chestnut yellow circle (central about 6 mm wide); On the chest pale yellow; Mid-winter with white dry lines. Two side is white, mixed with wide streaking of chestnut yellow, black, brown and yellow and white horizontal spot; White belly.

Into a bird (first summer) : female and male adult approximation, but the feather of the same long chin and throat, feather end round, yellowish gray; Their neck or yellowish gray, black feather end; Chest tan, the left and right side by side with dark spots, or together as vertical black patches. Females into a bird (adult) : first summer phase approximation with the female, but at the top of the chin and throat pinna becomes long, pointy feathers end, or light yellow. Tan increase and deepen in his back. Black, brown spots, and stained with chestnut brown. Lateral thoracic and tan, with wide mid-winter of white dry lines, dark brown almost faded.

Profession that is suitable for malnutrition, quail meat body virtual fatigue, anemia, dizziness, nephritis dropsy, diarrhea, hypertension, obesity, atherosclerosis and other patients.

Quail for phasianidae animal. As the saying goes: "eat birds, pigeons quail." Quail meat, eggs, delicious taste and rich nutrition.

Quail quail for short again, it is a small head, short tail and not fly auburn birds, quail meat is a typical high protein, low fat, low cholesterol food, especially suitable for the elderly and patients with hypertension, obesity. Quail equivalent to that of the king of ginseng tonic, known as "animals ginseng".

Dietotherapy role

Gan, ping, into the large intestine, heart, liver, spleen, lung, and kidney meridian;

Can fill in yiqi, clear hot and humid;

Attending dropsy, fueling high blood pressure, diabetes, anemia, stomach ailments, a variety of diseases such as liver, liver cirrhosis and ascites.

"Compendium of materia medica" said: "the meat can fill five zang-organs, yi in the gas, solid physique, through resistance, eliminate" hot ", "cooking meat and bean, ginger, check leakage flow field, crisp cooking, a lower fat." Is suitable for the treatment of indigestion, virtual body weak, cough, asthma, neurasthenia, etc.

Treatment of neurasthenia and to improve intelligence: the quail meat is suffering with fructus lycii and fructus alpiniae oxyphyllae, polygala meat to eat.

To treat tuberculosis and lung deficiency chronic cough: can use boiling water, rock sugar is right amount, quail egg flower consumption.

Treat kidney empty, lumbago, impotence: available quail eggs Fried leeks.

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China's consumption of quail has long history. Beginning of quail delicacy in qimin yaoshu "tasty preserved".