Turtle shell glue

Turtle shell glue

(Health treasure)

[source] it is a rubber block made from the dorsal shell of Trionyx sinensis. For animal morphology, please refer to "turtle shell".

[preparation method] rinse the turtle shell, add water to fry the glue juice in the pot for about 3-5 times, until the glue juice is fully fried. Filter and combine the decocted juice (or add a little alum powder). After standing, filter and take the clear glue juice, then heat it with gentle fire, mix it continuously, concentrate it (or add an appropriate amount of yellow wine and rock sugar) to form a thick paste, and pour it into the gel tank until it condenses naturally. Cut into small pieces and dry in the shade.

Functions and indications: Nourishing Yin, tonifying blood, reducing fever and removing blood stasis. Treatment of yin deficiency, hot flashes, long malaria does not heal, Baihuang malaria mother, hemorrhoids swelling and pain.

① Chinese Medical Dictionary: "tonifying liver yin, clearing liver heat. It is used to treat fatigue, thin bones, steaming, cold and heat, warm malaria, malaria mother, low back pain, hypochondriac rigidity, blood stasis, hemorrhoids, amenorrhea, dystocia, infantile convulsion, spot pox, intestinal carbuncle, sore and swelling. "

② Modern practical Chinese medicine: "nourishing yin and tonifying blood is nourishing, antipyretic and blood enriching medicine. "

③ Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "nourishing yin and blood, moistening the lung and eliminating knots. Treatment of deficiency, cough blood, anal swelling and pain, wet phlegm flow, tuberculosis hot flashes. "

[usage and dosage] take boiled water or yellow rice wine for 1-3 yuan.

[should avoid] spleen deficiency food to reduce loose stools and pregnant women should not take.