Turtle shell

(Ben Jing)

[synonyms] Shangjia (the key to syndrome differentiation and treatment), Bieke (yilinzuoyao), tuanyu Jia (Hebei medicinal materials), biegai (records of Shanxi Traditional Chinese Medicine).

[source] it is the dorsal shell of Trionyx sinensis.

[animal morphology] Chinese soft shelled turtle, also known as tuanyu (compendium), turtle (diet of suixiju).

The body is oval, the back is convex in the center, and the edge is concave. There are nails on the abdomen and back. The head is pointed, the neck is thick and long, the kiss is prominent, and there is a pair of nostrils at the end of the kiss. The eyes are small and the pupils are round. There was no granular wart at the base of neck, and the head and neck could be completely retracted into the nail. The dorsal and ventral nails were covered with soft skin instead of cuticle. The back is olive green, or dark brown, with small warts formed by epidermis on it, arranged in a longitudinal line; the edge is soft, commonly known as skirt. The abdomen is yellowish white with light green spots. There is no marginal plate between the dorsal and abdominal bone plates. There are 5 fingers on the forelimb, only 3 fingers on the medial side have claws, and so do the toes of the hind limbs. Webbed between fingers and toes. In males, the body is flat, the tail is long, and the end is exposed from the edge of the nail; in females, the opposite is true.

Most of them live in the sand and mud beside lakes, rivers and ponds. They lay eggs from June to July. It is widely distributed from northeast to Hainan Island, Hubei, Anhui, Sichuan, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Gansu and other places.

The meat (soft shelled turtle meat), head (soft shelled turtle head), blood (soft shelled turtle blood), fat (soft shelled turtle fat), gall (soft shelled turtle gall), egg (soft shelled turtle egg) and soft shelled turtle glue (soft shelled turtle glue) of wood animals are also used for medicine. Please refer to the special regulations.

[collection] from March to September. After catching, cut off the head of the turtle, boil the turtle body in boiling water for 1-2 hours until the hard skin on the shell can fall off, take it out, peel off the back shell, scrape off the residual meat and dry it in the sun.

[medicinal materials] the whole dried turtle shell is oval or oval, 10-20 cm long, 7-15 cm wide and 5 mm thick. The back of the nail is slightly raised, grayish brown or black green, with folds and protuberant grayish yellow or grayish white spots. There is an indistinct bony protuberance in the center of the nail. There are 8 obvious transverse serrated seams on both sides. There are 8 pairs of dentate protuberances on the left and right edges, which are almost white. Inside the nail is white, with a protruding spine in the center and 8 ribs on each side. It is hard and easy to break at the seam. It's slightly fishy and salty. It is better to be big, thick, clean and odorless.

It is mainly produced in Hubei, Anhui, Jiangsu, Henan, Hunan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other places. In addition, it is also produced in Sichuan, Fujian, Shaanxi, Gansu and Guizhou. Hubei Province and Anhui Province have the largest output.

[chemical composition] it contains animal glue, keratin, iodine, vitamin D, etc.

[processing] turtle shell: soak in water, remove skin, wash and dry. Turtle shell: first take the clean sand and stir fry in the pot, then add the clean turtle shell and stir fry until the surface is yellowish. Take out the sand and put it in the vinegar basin to soak it. Take it out, rinse it with water and dry it in the sun. (100kg per carapace, 30kg vinegar)

"Jinghui Zhihuang" is often used. "

[flavor] salty, flat.

① Ben Jing: "it tastes salty and flat. "

② Bielu: "non toxic. "

③ Ben Cao from the new: "salty, cold. "

[Guijing] into the liver and spleen meridian.

① Compendium: "Jueyin liver meridian. "

② "Lei Gong's treatment of medicinal properties": entering the liver and spleen meridians. "

③ "Ben Cao Hui Yan": "enter the foot Jueyin and Shaoyin meridians. "

Functions and indications: Nourishing Yin and clearing heat, calming the liver and calming the wind, softening and strengthening the body and dispersing the knot. It is used for the treatment of fatigue heat, bone steaming, yin deficiency and wind movement, malaria in labor, malarial mother, Baihuang mania, amenorrhea and menstrual leakage, and convulsion in children.

① "Ben Jing" says: "the heart and abdomen of the main 100 strong accumulation, cold and heat, to PI, polyps, Yin erosion, hemorrhoids (nuclear), evil meat. "

② Bielu: "treatment of warm malaria, blood stasis, low back pain, hypochondriac rigidity in children. "

③ According to the theory of medicinal properties, "it is mainly used for food, Baikuai, Qi, lenghuang, Laoshou, Xiaqi, heat of bones, heat of bone joints, solid and choked. To cure women who are thin and colorless. "

④ Rihuazi materia medica: "removing blood gas, breaking knots and evil blood, abortion, eliminating sores and swelling, attacking blood stasis, malaria and intestinal carbuncle. "

⑤ Supplement to the meaning of materia medica: "tonifying Yin and Qi. "

⑥ "Introduction to medicine": "main labor malaria, old malaria, female amenorrhea, infantile dysentery. "

⑦ According to the compendium of Medical Sciences, "in addition to the old malaria mother, Yin toxin, abdominal pain, labor recovery, food recovery, gangrene, dyspnea, dystocia, postpartum vaginal prolapse, husband Yin sores, stone drenching, convergence, ulceration and carbuncle. "

⑧ Jiangxi traditional Chinese medicine: "treat rickets. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoct soup, 3-8 yuan, boil cream or put into pill or powder. External use: grind the end to scatter or adjust to apply.

[should avoid] Yang deficiency of spleen and stomach, loose stool or pregnant women should take it with caution.

① Notes to the classic of materia medica: "alunite. "

② "On the nature of drugs": Evil stone. "

③ "Materia medica Jing Shu": "pregnancy is forbidden. It is forbidden to have Yin deficiency stomach weakness, yin deficiency diarrhea, postpartum diarrhea, postpartum diet, not thinking about food and vomiting. "

④ "The liver is deficient without heat, so it is forbidden to use it. "

⑤ "To match the materia medica": "cold labor hundred people should not take, blood dry banned. "

[prescription selection] 1. For the treatment of male and female bone steaming and emaciation: a turtle shell, roasted yellow with vinegar, and put into hu er Qian. Decoct soup and take Fangcun dagger. (Sun Simiao)

② For the treatment of bone steaming, night heat, fatigue and thin, bone knot vexation and heat, or cough with blood: a kilo of turtle shell (wash with boiling water, remove grease), four Liang, huaishudi, six Liang each, white three Liang, Chen guangpi one or two. Water 50 bowls, fry 10 bowls, dregs fry again, filter out the clear juice, low heat boil into paste, refine honey 42. Take several spoonfuls each morning and evening, and adjust the white soup. (Ben Cao Hui Yan)

③ The treatment of heat evil goes deep into Xiajiao, the number of pulse sinks, the tongue is dry, the teeth are black, the fingers feel wriggling, and the spasm is prevented: fried LiuQian, dried Dihuang LiuQian, shengliuqian, Sanqian, Wuqian (Quxin), Maren Sanqian, shengoyster Wuqian, shengbiejia Baqian. Take eight cups of water, three cups of boiling water and take it three times. (Erjia Fumai Decoction in differentiation of epidemic febrile diseases)

④ For those who have been treating malaria for a long time: first roast the turtle shell, then pound the powder, then take the dagger for three times. (behind the elbow)

⑤ Treatment of warm malaria: turtle shell (fried), each two liang, three Liang, one liter (cut), four Liang. Take seven liters of water, two liters of boiling water, five combinations, three servings at different temperatures. Avoid garlic, hot noodles, pigs and fish. (behind the elbow)

⑥ Treatment of malaria mother: turtle shell 12 points (fried), WuFan 3 points (burned), 3 points, 6 points, rodent 3 points (boiled), 3 points, 3 points, Paeonia 5 points, 3 points, Tingli 1 point (boiled), Shiwei 3 points (dehairing), 3 points, peony 5 points (heartless), 2 points, Ziwei 3 points, Ejiao 3 points (fried), 4 points (fried), Chixiao 12 points, 6 points (boiled), 2 points, 1 point, 1 point, Xianchong 5 points (boiled) . Take a bucket of ash from the calcining stove, five buckets of sake, soak in ash, wait for half of the wine, put turtle shell in the middle, cook until it rots like lacquer, grind the juice, take all kinds of herbs and fry them into pills, such as wuzida, take seven hollow pills, take three pills every day. (Biejiajian Pill in Synopsis of the Golden Chamber)

⑦ Treatment of Baipi: turtle shell, helile skin, dried ginger powder. Equally divided into pills, hollow under 30 pills, and then take. (on medicinal properties)

⑧ Treatment of heart and abdomen Baihuang hematocele: one or two turtle shells (washed in soup, soaked in rice vinegar for one night, dried on the fire, then quenched and roasted, with crisp nail as the degree, research extremely fine), three pots (research extremely fine), rhubarb and five coins (stir fried with wine). On the joint research fine powder. Every morning take two money, white soup tune down. (Cheng Fang of the Zhen family)

⑨ For women, the moon water is not good, the abdomen and the flank are stuffy, and the back is painful: two pairs of turtle shells (apply vinegar to make yellow, remove the skirt palm), one or two pairs of Sichuan rhubarb (file, stir fry), one or two pairs of amber. Add medicine, pound Luo for the end, refining honey and pills, such as Zida. Take 20 pills with warm wine. (Biejia pill in Sheng Hui Fang)

⑩ Treatment of women leakage of five colors, emaciation, pain between bones: turtle shell burning yellow, for the end, wine tune service inch dagger, three days. (behind the elbow)

(11) the treatment of hematemesis: one or two soft shelled turtle shells (file for pieces), one or two clam powder (soft shelled turtle shells are harmonious, fried fragrant yellow in CHO), and one or two half cooked and dried Rehmannia glutinosa. The first three flavors are mashed into fine powder. Every time I take two money daggers, I will clear the wax tea after eating. After taking the medicine, I can sleep less. (Biejia powder in Shengji Zonglu)

(12) to treat low back pain, one turtle shell is not allowed to pitch up. Take Fangcun dagger. After eating, take it three times a day. (behind the elbow)

Shi Lin: turtle shell pestle powder, wine service Fangcun dagger, two, three days, under the stone. (behind the elbow)

(14) in the treatment of dyspnea, one or two turtle shells (coated with vinegar to make them yellow) and half of almonds (soaked in soup, peeled, pointed, stir fried with bran), one or two or two. Apply the medicine and sift it for powder. Take five yuan each time. Take one middle cup of water, add half a cent and a big bundle of wicks. Fry it until six minutes. Remove the dross and warm it regardless of time. (Sheng Hui Fang)

Treatment of yin deficiency dream discharge: turtle shell burning research, each word, with half a cup of wine, half a cup of urine, seven inches with fried, to green onion, on the spot service, for the degree of sweating. (Yi Lei Yuan Rong)

(16) treatment of postpartum early stroke cold, diarrhea and bring down: turtle shell such as hand big, Coptis, ginger each two, one foot long, three inches wide. Cut the five flavors carefully, take seven liters of water, boil three liters, remove the dross, take three times a day. (Qian Jin Fang Biejia Tang)

She treatment of infantile epilepsy: turtle shell zhilinghuang, pound for the end, take a money, milk service, can also be honey pills such as beans big service. (secret records of son and mother)

(18) treatment of intestinal carbuncle pain: turtle shell burning, research, water, take a money, three days. (Liu Yuxi's chuanxinfang)

(19) treatment

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