Tortoise shell

Tortoise shell

(notes on materia medica)

[source] it is the shell of turtle.

[animal form] turtle, also known as green Tuan fish and leprosy head turtle.

It is one of the largest soft shelled turtles with a body length of 26-72 cm. It has short snout, round dorsal shell, scattered small warts, dark green, and white abdomen, outer edge of forelimb and web.

It often lives in slow flowing deep rivers and distributes in Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, etc.

The meat (turtle meat), gall (turtle gall) and fat (turtle paste) of this animal are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special section for details.

[nature and taste] Compendium: "sweet, flat, non-toxic. "

[functions and indications] 1. In Ben Ge Shi Yi, it has the same functions as turtle shell, grilling, soaking in wine, controlling scrofula, killing insects, chasing wind, malignant sores, hemorrhoids and galls, wind stubborn scabies. "

② Rihua in materia medica: "five viscera evil, kill 100 insect poison, 100 medicine poison. Keep your muscles and bones. "

③ The book of materia medica: "housewives have blood fever. "

According to Ben Jing Feng Yuan (treatise by famous experts), "turtle shell has the same skill as turtle shell, but turtle goes through the liver and turtle through the spleen, so its indications are slightly different. "