五灵脂是塞号虫(俗名灵脂鳥)之屎,此鳥系哺乳、翼手类,狀如“鴿子”大。長肉翅,滿生羽毛而無翖毛,毛色多黑褐至青黄色(其皮可制皮袄)。口吻突出,耳小、隐于毛中。翼大、前肢之拇趾与后肢各趾均有鈎爪。食山菓、山柏叶及野药苗之液汁。其鳴声为得过且过。冬季食料缺乏,由于至多季羽毛脫落而畏冷就躲在岩洞內进行冬眠,睡时倒悬其体。其性嗜自食其屎,經过多次便后复食,以几次之屎——五灵脂为佳;尤以粘結的糖灵脂为最好。据太行山药农談:此鳥是“千里打食一处屙”,干粪是灵脂米,糖粪是灵脂塊。主产于山西平顺、黎城、沁源、陵川、陽城、武乡、翼 Wulingzhi is a cricket of the hornworm (common name singed fat bird). This bird is suckling and winged and is shaped like a “pigeon”. Long fleshy wings, full of feathers and no feathers, dark brown to blue-brown coat (the skin can be made of skin lice). Muzzle prominent, small ears, hidden in the hair. Large claws, hooks on the toes of the forelegs and each toe of the hind limbs. Fresh fruit juice, mountain cypress leaves and wild medicine seedlings. The whisper is too good and too good. The lack of food in winter, due to the loss of feathers at most seasons and chilling, hid in the caves to hibernate, and hung upside down during sleep. Their sexual addiction to eat their food, after many times after the resumption of food, in order to several times - Wulingzhi better; in particular, the best sticky sugar fat. According to the Taihang Yam agriculture talks, the bird is “a bite to eat a cricket”, dry manure is a glutinous rice, and glycogen is a fat block. Mainly produced in Pingshun, Licheng, Wuyuan, Lingchuan, Yangcheng, Wuxiang, Wings in Shanxi