What are the medicinal values ​​of monkey-faced eagle?

The monkey-faced eagle may not be very common in our lives. It is a very common protected animal, so we are not allowed to hunt it. This animal has always been protected by our country because it is rare and looks special. Its beak is generally yellow-brown, unlike the monkey itself, which is in the shape of an eagle, so it is called the monkey-faced eagle. So what are the medicinal values ​​of the monkey-faced eagle?

What are the medicinal values ​​of monkey-faced eagle?

The body length can reach 30cm. The mouth is yellow-brown with green-yellow rim. Iris dark brown. The face is underdeveloped and the ear tips are absent. The head, sides of the neck and upper wing coverts are dark brown, densely covered with narrow brown-white horizontal spots, which are even finer and denser on the top of the head; the eyebrow pattern is white; some shoulder feathers and the outer vanes of the greater coverts have large white spots. The flight feathers are dark brown, with triangular brown or brownish-white edge spots on the outer vanes and horizontal stripes of the same color on the inner vanes; the wing edges are white.

The tail is also dark brown with 6 distinct white horizontal stripes. The cheeks, jaw patterns, throat patches and center of the lower abdomen are pure white; the same is true for the undertail coverts, but sometimes with slight brown stripes; the rest of the lower body is dark brown, covered with white and brown horizontal stripes, but the sides of the lower abdomen are white with dark brown vertical stripes; the armpits are pure white; the leg feathers are also white. The toes are dark yellow-green and covered with thorny feathers; the claws are even darker.

It lives in plains or hills, is not very afraid of light, often flies during the day, and becomes more active at night. Nests in tree holes. Feeds on rodents, small birds and insects.

【Nature and flavor】Sweet, warm.

① "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Sweet, warm, non-toxic."

② "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": "Sweet, warm, slightly toxic."

[Functions and indications] Treats choking, epilepsy, fistula, and malignant ulcer.

① "Supplement to Materia Medica": "It is used to treat rat fistula."

② "Compendium of Materia Medica": "It can treat epilepsy and choking."

③ "Medical Collection": "Strengthen muscles and bones, treat dizziness."

④ "Sui Xi Ju Diet": "It can replenish the body's deficiency and fatigue, kill insects, stimulate appetite and digestion, relieve choking, and calm fright. It can treat malaria, epilepsy, and heal malignant sores and fistulas."

[Usage and Dosage] For oral use: roast or calcine and grind into powder.

[Additional prescription] ① Treat choking: a pair of featherless peng birds. Use yellow mud to solidify it, and calcine it into powder. Take one spoonful each time with warm wine. (The Magical Prescription for the Longevity Domain)

② For treating epilepsy with falling to the ground with foam at the mouth and no consciousness: one male gull owl (Put it in a clay pot, solidify it with yellow mud, calcine it with charcoal fire until it turns red, take it out and grind it into powder). Divide it into four doses, add a little musk, and take it with warm wine. If you don’t want to drink wine, you can also take it with boiled water. For those over ten years old, take six doses at any time. (Xingshen Powder from Yang's Family Collection)

Although the monkey-faced eagle has a wide range of medicinal value, it is a national first-class protected animal and cannot be captured casually. The meat of the monkey-faced eagle can be used as medicine to treat many diseases, but it should be noted that although it is a medicinal material, it cannot be taken casually and must be taken according to the doctor's advice.