Owl has certain medicinal value. The ancient folk prescription in China points out that owl can cure asthma, eye diseases, dizziness, epilepsy, scrofula, malaria, choking food and other diseases, and it is also a good medicine for removing head wind and headache, as well as the effect of relieving convulsion and detoxifying.
Because of the small number of owls, some people are willing to buy them at a high price for treating diseases. There are even many news reports that restaurants use owls to make soup. In fact, owls are just ordinary birds and have no so-called medicinal value. At least the effect of traditional Chinese medicine has not been confirmed by research. There is a folk saying in our country that "night owls enter the house, but they are afraid of night owls laughing if they are not afraid of their barking". Owls are often regarded as "ominous birds", called ghost-chasing birds and mourning birds. In ancient books, they are also called strange owls, ghost cars, ghosts or wandering as symbols of bad luck and death.