The efficacy and function of turtle meat

Many people are not very clear about turtle meat, so when choosing turtle meat, you need to understand it so that you can feel at ease when eating it, which is beneficial for disease treatment.

[Source] It is the meat of the Chinese soft -shelled turtle of the family Testudinidae.

[Chemical composition] 100 grams of edible part contains 80 grams of water, 16.5 grams of protein, 1.0 grams of fat, 1.6 grams of carbohydrates, 0.9 grams of ash; 107 milligrams of calcium, 135 milligrams of phosphorus, 1.4 milligrams of iron, 0.62 milligrams of thiamine, 0.37 milligrams of riboflavin, and 3.7 milligrams of niacin. It also contains 13 international units of vitamin A per 100 grams.

【Nature and flavor】 Sweet, neutral.

【Meridian】 "Ben Cao Qiu Zhen": "enters the liver."

【Functions and indications】Nourishes yin and cools blood. It is used to treat bone steaming, fatigue fever, chronic malaria, chronic dysentery, metrorrhagia, leukorrhea, and scrofula.

【Usage and Dosage】 Cook or make into pills.

【Note】 People with spleen and stomach yang deficiency and pregnant women should not take this medicine.

[Additional prescription] ① Treating bone steaming and fatigue cough: 2 round fish, equal parts of Fritillaria, Peucedanum chinense, Anemarrhena asphodeloides, Apricot kernel and Bupleurum chinense. Cook the above medicines together with the fish, and eat the fish with the juice. Roast the medicine until dry and grind it into powder. Boil one cup of juice with bones and make pills the size of walnuts. Take 20 pills each time, boil 61% Astragalus soup, and drink on an empty stomach. After the illness is cured, you can continue to take Huangqi Liuyi Decoction for conditioning. (Fish balls from "Women's Recipes")

【Excerpt】 《*Dictionary》

[Source] From "Ming Yi Bie Lu". "Compendium of Materia Medica": Turtles are afraid of onions and mulberry ash. Anyone who wants to eat turtles should take a small turtle from Shahe, cut off its head and drain the blood, cook it with mulberry ash soup, remove the bones and shell, change the water and cook it again, then add onions and sauce to make a soup.

Having said so much, we can see that turtle meat has many functions. It can also be used as medicine to treat diseases. You might as well know more about these, it will be helpful in your life.