What are the medicinal values ​​of tortoises?

Traditional Chinese medicine has very magical therapeutic effects, and the medicinal materials used in treating diseases are also very wide. For example, using flowers, plants or animals to treat diseases. So there are many times when we

The meat of a turtle from the family Testudinidae. The turtle is also called tortoise, water turtle, golden turtle, and sacred turtle. It is distributed in Hebei, Henan, Jiangsu, Shandong, Anhui, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Shaanxi and other places in my country. After obtaining it, kill (remove the head) or boil it to death, remove the shell and internal organs, and use the meat.

[Properties] Sweet in taste, neutral in nature. It can nourish yin, replenish blood and stop bleeding.

[Reference]Contains protein, fat, inorganic salts and other ingredients.

[Use] Used for fever due to deficiency, hot flashes and bone steaming, cough and shortness of breath; Yin deficiency and blood heat, hemoptysis, hematemesis, bloody stool; liver and kidney Yin deficiency, amenorrhea.

[Usage] Cook in soup, steam or add to dishes.

[Additional prescription]

Roasted turtle meat: Take 1 turtle, cut the meat into pieces, stir-fry with cooking oil, add onion, pepper, soy sauce, sugar, salt, etc., mix well, add appropriate amount of water, and simmer over low heat.

Originated from "Convenient Diet Therapy". Turtle meat can nourish the yin of the liver and kidneys and reduce fire. It is used for fever due to deficiency, cough and hemoptysis; it can also be used for vomiting blood, bloody stool, and hemorrhoidal bleeding.

Terrapin and mutton soup: 1 turtle, cut the meat into pieces; 250g mutton, cut into pieces. Add appropriate amount of water, simmer the soup over low heat, add lard and salt to season and serve.

Turtle meat mainly replenishes kidney yin, while mutton mainly replenishes kidney yang. When used together, they have the effect of replenishing both yin and yang. It is used for deficiency of essence and blood, deficiency of kidney yang, dizziness and tinnitus, impotence and frequent urination, or enuresis in children.

Now that we know the medicinal value of the grass turtle, we can choose how to use the grass turtle according to the symptoms of the disease when it occurs. When using the medicinal value of grass tortoise, it is best to use it under the guidance of a doctor. This can maximize the medicinal value of the grass turtle and prevent adverse effects on the body caused by indiscriminate use of drugs.