Owl, a traditional Chinese medicine, commonly known as "cat head owl", refers to the meat or bones of owls such as the Red Horned Owl. It has the effects of dispelling wind, calming fright, and detoxifying. It is mainly used to treat dizziness, epilepsy, scrofula, malaria, and choking.
【Nature and Meridian】
Taste and nature: sour, slightly salty, cold, slightly toxic.
1. "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": slightly sour, slightly salty, slightly toxic.
2. "Ben Cao Qiu Yuan": sour, salty, cold.
Meridian: heart and liver meridians.
【Effects and Functions】
Owl has the effects of dispelling wind, calming fright, and detoxifying. It is mainly used to treat dizziness, epilepsy, scrofula, malaria, choking, and rat ulcers.
1. "Gang Mu": used to treat malaria.
2. "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": used to treat fatigue and wasting diseases.
3. "Jilin Chinese Herbal Medicine": detoxification and calming fright.
【Usage and Dosage】
Internal use: boil or burn the meat and bones, 2-3 qian (unit of weight); or grind into pills or powder.
【Application of Formula】
1. For wind-weak dizziness, grind the owl without feathers, cook and eat it; burn the bones, and take it with alcohol. (From "Convenient Dietary Therapy")
2. For epilepsy: take one owl, paste it with mud, and smoke it in a stove pit for one hundred days, then grind it into powder. Take three qian each time, twice a day.
3. For lymph node tuberculosis (rat ulcer): take one owl, burn and eat it.
4. For choking: take two baby owls without feathers, wrap them in yellow mud, burn and grind them into fine powder. Mix with warm wine and take two qian each time, twice a day. (The following formulas are from "Jilin Chinese Herbal Medicine")
5. For malaria: take one owl, remove the feathers and intestines, and eat it after frying with oil. (From "Gang Mu")
6. For fatigue and wasting diseases: boil and dry the owl with alcohol, steam it with seven large eels on a thin layer of mint until it is cooked, and mix with one jin of Chinese yam. Grind into fine powder and make pills. Take on an empty stomach with alcohol, three qian each time. (From "Ben Jing Feng Yuan")
