Properties: Sweet, warm

Meridans Entered:
Primary: Liver and Kidney

1. Invigorates the Blood, expedites delivery and stops pain
   Arthralgia, lumbago, headache
   Difficult labour

Suggested Daily Dosage: 15-30g soaked in wine.

Cautions: It is contraindicated in case of blood deficiency without blood stasis and pregnant women.

Notes:

In Japanese Ainu culture the Ezo flying squirrel (Pteromys volans orii) was known as the At-kamui or "the Divine prolific one", due to the belief that it could produce up to thirty young in one litter, and regarded as a bird, since it could fly. Where an Ainu man and his wife were childless, and initial appeal to the goddess of fire and her consort was to no avail, the husband, without his wife's knowledge, should go into the mountains to hunt for a flying squirrel, which he should then cut into small pieces, boil, and place upon a tray. Using Inau sticks, and praying to the sacrificed squirrel for assistance, he should give the meat to his wife to eat, again without her knowing from what "bird" it was derived.[11] Only if this feast, known as uatama marapto or "the feast of placing the prolific one", proved unsuccessful should he resort to taking a second or third wife. - Batchelor, J. (1901). The Ainu and their Folk-lore. London: Religious Tract Society. pp. 339–341. Available at https://wellcomecollection.org/works/e8hd3nfn/items?canvas=371