What are the benefits of hawksbill turtle?

Hawksbill turtle is a very common Chinese medicinal material. This kind of Chinese medicinal material is actually the scales of an animal, so it is quite precious. It is usually used as a medicinal material after being dried. Because hawksbill turtle has many functions and medicinal effects, it has many uses in medicine, and many medicines contain hawksbill turtle as their main ingredient. So what are the benefits of hawksbill turtle? Below I will introduce the medicinal effects of hawksbill turtle.

[Animal morphology] The head has symmetrical scales, with two pairs of frontal scales. Nostrils close to the tip of the snout. The upper jaw is hooked, the snout is laterally flattened, the beak is parrot-shaped, and the jaw edge is serrated. The horn plates on the back are arranged in a shingle-like pattern when young, but become flat as they age. The cervical horn plates are short and wide; there are 5 vertebral horn plates; there are 4 costal horn plates on each side, the second one is the largest; there are 11 marginal horn plates on each side, and the one in the posterior part of the body is serrated; there is a gap between the two anal horn plates.

[Properties of the medicinal material] Nearly circular, triangular or polygonal plates, 10 to 30 cm long and 1 to 3 mm thick. It is thicker in the middle and thin like a knife blade at the edge with uneven serrations. The outer surface is smooth, shiny, translucent, with irregular patterns of dark brown and creamy yellow. There is a raised ridge in the middle of the dorsal scales, and the oblique section shows layered patterns. The inner surface has stripes forming a cloud-like texture. It is tough, not easy to break, and has a horny cross section. Slight odor, light taste.

[Nature and flavor and meridians] Cold in nature, sweet and salty in taste. It enters the Heart Meridians and Liver Meridians.

【Effects and Functions】Calming the liver and relieving shock, clearing away heat and detoxifying. It is a wind-calming and antispasmodic drug under the category of liver-calming and wind-calming drugs.

[Clinical application] The dosage is 9 to 15 grams, decocted or ground into juice for oral administration, can also be made into pills or powder; for external use, grind into powder and apply on the patient. It is used to treat high fever, coma and delirium, epilepsy in children, dizziness, restlessness and insomnia, carbuncles and sores.

[Main ingredients] Contains keratin, which contains various amino acids such as lysine and histidine. The ethanol extract had only a weak inductive effect on T4 and T8 positive cells of T regulatory cell subsets in nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients in vitro.

[Contraindications] It is forbidden to take this medicine if one suffers from deficiency-cold syndrome without fire poison.

The above article introduces some of the functions and effects of hawksbill turtle. If patients want to use hawksbill turtle for treatment and conditioning, they need to first understand the medicinal effects of hawksbill turtle and pay attention to the dosage of hawksbill turtle. Not everyone can use tortoise shell for conditioning. People with weak body or cold body cannot use it. This is something that needs attention.