Cooking up Fine Remedies: On the Culinary Aesthetic in a Sixteenth-Century Chinese Materia Medica

Flesh of the Quail Sweet, bland, non-poisonous. Not to be eaten before the month of May, eaten with pig’s liver it will cause blackheads, with mushrooms one develops haemorrhoids. A visceral tonic and vitalizer. Makes the bones and muscles strong and able to endure cold and heat. It relieves inflammation. With ginger and red mung bean it cures diarrhoea and dysentery. Fried in cream it is fattening to the belly, but it is good for reducing the abdomen swollen on account of water retention. For the chronic disorders of children.