The efficacy and function of white-bellied pheasant

Golden Pheasant is a very common Chinese medicine. Although it is very common, it has many magical effects. Let’s take a look at it below.

【English Name】 Lady Amherst pheasant

【Other name】Qing chicken

[Source] Medicinal material source: The meat of the Golden Pheasant, a member of the Phasianidae family.

[Original form] The male has a white-bellied golden eagle with short metallic green feathers on its head and a narrow purplish-red occipital crest. The back of the neck is covered with a white fan-shaped feather with blue and black edges. The longer fan feathers, like a shawl, have a blue-black horizontal spot parallel to the feather edge. The flap and shoulder feathers are both metallic emerald green. Each feather is surrounded by black stripes near the edge, and the feather edges are bright green. The back feathers are broad and square, with black bases and green spots in the middle. The feather edges are broad brown-yellow. Most of these feather edges are exposed, so the lower back is bright green. The waist feathers have scarlet feather edges. The upper coverts are white with blue-black spots, and the ends are slender and orange-red. The central tail feathers are white with metallic blue-black horizontal stripes, and the spots are interspersed with marble-like black diagonal lines; the outer tail feathers and inner vanes are marble-like with black and white mixed together, the outer vanes are silver-gray, turning into dark dark brown towards the outer edge, and with blue horizontal stripes. The inner sides of the wings are mostly metallic blue-black, with black edges on each feather, turning to dark dark brown outwards; the primary flight feathers are light dark brown, and except for the first one, the outer edges are all white; the face and throat are black, with scattered metallic green spots; the chest and flaps are the same, with a wider and shiny green edge; the abdomen and flanks are white, with brown spots on the lower flanks and around the anus; the undertail coverts are black, with shiny green tips and black edges. The exposed area around the eyes is light blue; the beak is gray-blue; the feet are gray-blue.

[Habitat distribution] Ecological environment: often inhabit rocky mountains. It lives in thorny thickets and dwarf bamboos. Usually acts alone or in pairs. In autumn and winter they often move around in small groups. It feeds on wild fruits, young leaves of plants and insects.

【Chemical composition】 Meat contains protein, peptides, amino acids and fat.

【Nature and flavor】 Sweet; warm

【Meridian】 Heart; Large Intestine

【Functions and indications】Hemostasis; detoxification. Mainly used for hemorrhoids, sores, swelling and infection

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: burn and grind, 5-10g; can be used as food.

[Discussions by various scholars] "Chinese Medicinal Animals": It has the function of stopping bleeding and detoxifying. It is mainly used to treat hemorrhoids, carbuncles, swellings and other diseases.

【Excerpt】 Chinese Materia Medica

As a common Chinese medicinal material, Golden Pheasant is often forgotten by people. In fact, its effects and functions are beyond your imagination. As long as you are good at eating it and use the right method, I believe it will be of great help to your body.