Tortoise glue

Tortoise glue

(clinical guide medical records)

[synonym] tortoise paste (materia medica), tortoise glue (materia medica Huiyan), tortoise shell glue (Sichuan records of traditional Chinese Medicine).

[source] it is a solid rubber block made from the shell of tortoise. The animal morphology is detailed in "tortoise plate".

[preparation] take the bleached and soaked turtle plate and fry it in water for several times until the gum is completely removed. Filtrate the glue that was repeatedly decocted, filter together, add a little alum powder, place it in a static way, and filter the clarified glue, and concentrate it with a gentle fire (or add some yellow wine and sugar candy) to the thick paste, pour it into the gel tank, make it condensed, remove it, cut it into small pieces, and dry it.

[medicinal material] it is a square flat block, about 2.6 cm long, 2.5 cm wide and 0.8 cm thick. It is brown and slightly green, with an old yellow "oil head" with bristle pattern on it. It is transparent and clean to light. The quality is hard, with crispy, transparent is better.

[flavor] sweet and salty, flat.

① Yilin zuanyao: "sweet and salty, cold. "

② Sichuan Traditional Chinese medicine annals: "it tastes sweet, slightly salty and non-toxic. "

Functions and indications: Nourishing Yin, tonifying blood and stopping bleeding. Treatment of yin deficiency and blood deficiency, fatigue heat, bone steam, hematemesis, bleeding, fever, palpitation, kidney deficiency, low back pain, foot and knee flaccidity, metrorrhagia, leucorrhea.

① "Materia medica Huiyan" said: "the main Yin deficiency, fever and thirst, cough and hemoptysis phlegm, bone steaming, fatigue and heat, waist and knee flaccidity, muscle and bone pain, cold and heat for a long time, malaria, women collapse with leakage, red and white frequently, all the yin deficiency and blood deficiency syndrome, and all are treated. "

② Yilin zuanyao: "nourishing the lung. "

③ "Nourishing and hemostasis" in Zhejang Chinese Medicine Manual. "

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

[should avoid] people with cold and damp stomach should not take it.

① Ben Cao Bei Yao: "evil. "

② Ben Cao Cong Xin: "evil sand ginseng. "

③ "To match Materia Medica": "spleen and stomach deficiency cold, true essence cold slippery, both banned. "

[prescription selection] 1. For the treatment of long-term cold and heat, malaria is more than one or two yuan. Divided into five paste, fried. (Ben Cao Hui Yan)

② Treatment of women with red and white more than: Turtle glue three money. Dissolve the wine and take it every morning. (Ben Cao Hui Yan)