What if an unattended animal gets sick? Please don't worry, some extremely supernatural animals also have a wonderful method of "self-diagnosis and self-treatment". According to recent research data abroad, some animals sometimes look for natural medicines by themselves or each other to drive away diseases and evil spirits and keep healthy. These drugs are actually "Chinese medicine". In fact, some Chinese medicines were discovered under the "inspiration" of animals.
People only know that perilla herb can cure the poison of fish and crabs, but they don't know that this is a "secret biography" given by otters to Hua Tuo. According to legend, Warren, a famous doctor in ancient China, witnessed the abdominal distension and grief of an otter who swallowed a big fish raw. A brave old otter picked a purple weed and let it eat it. It didn't take long for the sick otter who struggled with death to recover from a serious illness. Seeing this, Hua Tuo blindly believed that this kind of Lithospermum was a good medicine, so he collected a lot of research and used it to treat patients with fish and crab poisoning, but it had no effect. Therefore, Warren named this purple weed "Aster", that is, Perilla frutescens, and passed it down.
China's famous Yunnan Baiyao was successfully developed by herbalists who succumbed to "inspiration" from tigers and snakes. Qu is a good hunter. Once he killed a tiger and asked someone to carry it the next day. He found the tiger missing. He followed it and finally found that the injured tiger ate the leaves of a plant, stopped the bleeding and escaped. On another occasion, Qu saw a snake with a big tail cut off by the woodcutter's sharp axe and jumped into the bushes in pain, so he looked carefully and saw that the injured snake had bitten off several leaves from a plant and applied them to the injured part, only temporarily stopping bleeding. So this plant was harvested and added to the prescription for treating traumatic injury, which made the hemostatic effect more remarkable and became the world-famous Yunnan Baiyao.
The main drug of a snake medicine is Lobelia chinensis, which was discovered by snake doctors in China. When a snake doctor made a house call, he saw a dog bitten by a snake and ran towards the mountain. He followed him and saw the dog eating a grass growing on the wetland at the back of the mountain. After eating it, he no longer showed the symptoms of snake venom. He picked the grass back and identified it as Lobelia chinensis, which was used for snake bites in the future and had a good effect.
In a forest area in Russia, you can often see some weak dogs and badgers lying in ant nests and being bitten by ants. It turns out that these badgers skillfully use formic acid secreted by ants to treat their rheumatism or parasitic diseases. Many hunters who sleep in the wind like to eat ant powder and ant products, which seems to have certain scientific reasons. Now using its products to treat rheumatism or enhance disease resistance can not be said to be an enlightening application.
When ants are foraging, they often bring back some leaves or seeds of plants and store them in the wet place of the ant nest. What is the reason? It turns out that these seeds or leaves have the embrace of microorganisms and fungi. Embroidery can proliferate and secrete antibacterial substances in a humid environment, thus ensuring the health of ant colonies and preventing stored food from spoilage. Soviet scientists successfully extracted a new antibiotic from ant fungi.
Apes growing in tropical jungles, if they feel a little uncomfortable and cold all over, will chew the bark of the cinchona tree and recover quickly. Did humans learn from apes when taking quinine?
There is a village doctor of Hani nationality in Yunnan Province, China. When resting under a big tree, he cut a centipede more than 20 centimeters long into two pieces. Later, another centipede climbed up, turned around the broken centipede twice, then climbed into the grass, dragged back a fresh leaf, covered the injured part of the broken centipede and chewed it gently with its mouth. An hour later, the centipede that was broken in two actually twisted a few times and slowly got up. The village doctor took the remaining half leaf home and identified it as a kind of elderberry. He picked some from the mountain and smashed them to treat fractures. The good one was cured. Today, Haikou Hospital of Hainan Agricultural Reclamation Bureau uses this elderberry to treat fractures, and the curative effect is magical.
In spring, the big black bear in North America just woke up from hibernation and was always uncomfortable and depressed. At this time, it will find some fruits with mild diarrhea to eat and will recover soon.
When the orangutan's gums are inflamed and painful, it will dig some mud with its claws and stick it on its cheeks, and then press it tightly with its two claws.
There is a kind of pheasant called local chicken. When chickens get wet and catch a cold, hens force them to eat benzoin leaves. After eating bitter leaves, the condition of chicks will gradually improve.
According to the observation of zoologists, after the head of a poisonous snake was bitten by another snake, the head soon swelled up, even the mouth was swollen. At this time, it drank water desperately, and drank 2 16 saliva continuously for 14 minutes. After two hours, the head swelling gradually disappeared.
Someone has seen such an interesting story: a woodchuck's leg was injured by a gun and fell into the river, so it took some dirt, first applied it to the injured area, then turned around, picked up some grass and put it on it, and "wrapped it" together. It was wrapped for more than an hour, just like a person's surgical plaster fixation. After all the bandages were wrapped, they flew away slowly.
Rabbits with enteritis will go to Ma Lian to eat. If it is injured, it will use the sticky silk on the spider web to stop the bleeding. Wild cats suffer from gastrointestinal diseases and munch on fresh grass. When a seal is injured, it will look for a kind of healing seaweed. When domestic cats and dogs are uncomfortable, they will also go to the wild to find a grass to eat. When a deer is poisoned by a hunter, it will quickly look for the stems and leaves of leguminous plants to eat. Detoxification and self-help These are all effective measures to suit the remedy to the case.
The injured elephant will look for some alkaline sand to disinfect the wound. If it is sick, it will also find some medicinal weeds and aquatic plants to eat. Bison got scabies, rolled in the mire, dried in the sun, repeated several times, and soon recovered. Badger found that his "child" had a skin disease, so he led the little badger to soak in a hot spring to diminish inflammation and detoxify until he recovered. When a bear is injured, it will smear the wound with turpentine.
In order to prevent arthritis by injecting formic acid injection, European migratory birds have created a kind of "provocation"-it vibrates its wings and arouses the angry attack of termites. When termites mercilessly spray formic acid on it, the plan of free injection of "vaccine" is realized.
A study by Holly Budalin, a female ecologist, found that some pregnant females look for plants with special functions as medicines. She once observed the daily life of a female elephant in Kenya for nearly a year, and found that the female elephant never changed her living habits and walked 5 kilometers every day to find the same plant to eat. But one day, it walked 28 kilometers, stopped at the edge of a small Lithospermum tree and ate all the branches and leaves. On the second day after returning to her place of residence, this female elephant successfully gave birth to a lovely baby elephant.
Zoologists believe that this "self-diagnosis and self-treatment" of animals is not only the instinct of animals to adapt to the environment and survive, but also a kind of wisdom that they have gradually accumulated in the evolution of millions of years. Not long ago, Harrison, a British scientist, found that the "parents" of animals taught their children how to cure diseases while teaching them the survival ability of "preying and avoiding enemies". He believes that human beings can be inspired by their unique self-healing and health care, and become a new field of bionics. Is this it?