People will take medicine when they are sick, and dogs will seek their own herbs when they are sick? Recently, a Charlie King beagle named "Old Five" became popular because he would find ramie, Ma Tang, etc. in the green belt of the community to treat himself, and netizens called it "the five doctors who tasted hundreds of herbs".
"When I was five or 5 months old, I found that it had the habit of eating grass, and at first I didn't pay much attention to it, thinking that it was just ordinary weeds. A few days ago, when I took it for a walk in the community, I noticed that it was along the green belt, smelling left and sniffing on the right, picking for half a day, eating a grass with large leaves, and immediately after eating it, I was refreshed. Ms. Zhuang, who lives in Chaoyang District, is the owner of the "old five", and after she posted a video of the strange phenomenon of dogs eating grass on the Internet, some people found that the dog eating was actually a kind of herb. "I checked it out, and the old fifth eats ramie, which can clear the heat and detoxify, and is really treating himself."
Ms. Zhuang began to pay attention to the habit of the fifth elder eating herbs. She fed her dog every morning, and once, the fifth did not move until noon. By noon, the host took it out. As soon as he got downstairs, Old Five went straight to the grass and turned around before picking a Matang grass. After the fifth elder finished eating the grass, he quickly excreted it, and when he returned home, he had an appetite and ate a large pot of rice.
"I've only heard that dogs eat grass to help digestion, but picking herbs is still a new thing." Old Five is not all grass to eat, there is no herb in the green belt of the community, it is all wild, I don't know why it can always be found. Ms. Zhuang said.
Zou Zhongliang, director of animal hospital diagnosis and treatment, analyzed, "The fact that dogs eat herbs should not be over-interpreted, it is just a self-protection behavior of animals. Dogs do not distinguish herbs, but they are very sensitive to taste, and may like the taste of a certain grass, so they will pick and eat, because many grasses have the function of stimulating gastrointestinal peristalsis for dogs. Zou Zhongliang said that if the dog frequently exhibits this behavior, it means that its body is uncomfortable, and it is best to seek medical examination.
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(Original title: A puppy in Beijing will pick herbs to eat to cure himself? Some netizens "admired the name of the consultation", expert interpretation)
Source: Beijing Evening News | reporter Chu Yingshuo
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