The most commonly used identification method of animal medicinal materials is

Character recognition is currently the most widely used method.

Some traditional empirical identification methods are still effective and important means to identify animal traditional Chinese medicine:

Hand measurement method, such as kneading musk with fur shell, is elastic; After the musk kernel is wetted with water, it can be agglomerated by hand rubbing, and it will be scattered when it is gently rubbed. It should not be stuck, stained, or caked. In the water testing method, bear bile kernel is thrown into the water cup, that is, it rotates on the water surface, and it drops in a yellow line without diffusion; Niuhuang aqueous solution can make nails yellow, commonly known as "hanging nails";

Fire detection method, if the musk kernel is burned in a hot crucible, it will burst at first, then melt, expand and bubble, and the fragrance will overflow. After ashing, it will be white ash, hairless, smelly, without flame or spark; When Mabao powder is heated on tin foil paper, its powder gathers and produces horse urine smell.