Meridians of nature and flavor

Salty, slightly cold. Returns to the liver and kidney meridians.

Function and Usage

Functions: Nourish yin and subdue yang, soften hardness and dissipate stagnation, reduce fever and remove steam. It is used for fever due to yin deficiency, labor-heat and bone steaming, internal movement of wind due to deficiency, amenorrhea, epilepsy, and chronic malaria.

"Bie Lu": Treats warm malaria, bloody mass, low back pain, and hypochondriac stiffness in children.

"Treatise on the Properties of Medicine": Mainly used for constipation, disease lumps, abdominal pain, cold lumps, fatigue and weight loss, and lowering of Qi. It can remove bone heat, labor heat between joints, and congestion. Treat women who leak five colors and win weight.

"Rihuazi Materia Medica": removes blood qi, breaks knots, hemorrhage, abortion, relieves sores and swelling, and relieves hemorrhage, malaria, and intestinal carbuncle.

"Supplement to the Compendium of Materia Medica": Tonify yin and replenish qi.

"Introduction to Medicine": Mainly used for labor malaria, elderly malaria, amenorrhea in women, and epilepsy in children.

"Compendium": Removes old malaria and malaria, insidious abdominal pain, fatigue, food resumption, acne, dyspnea, dystocia in women, postpartum vaginal prolapse, husband's vulva, stone stranguria; ulceration and carbuncle.

"Jiangxi Traditional Chinese Medicine": Treating rickets.

Usage and dosage: 9 to 24 grams, mash and fry first.

① To treat men and women suffering from bone steaming and weight loss: one piece of turtle shell, roast it yellow with vinegar, and add 10 grams of Coptidis pubescens into powder. Decoction of Artemisia annua should be taken with a prescription. (Sun Simiao)

② To treat those who suffer from night fever due to bone steaming, fatigue and weight loss, troublesome heat in joints, or cough with blood: 500 grams of turtle shell (wash in boiling water, remove grease and dirt), 200 grams of Radix Adenophora, Huaishu Rehmannia glutinosa 300 grams each of Ophiopogon japonicus and Ophiopogon japonicus, 150 grams of Poria cocos and 50 grams of Chen Guangpi. Fifty bowls of water, fry ten bowls, fry the residue again, filter out the clear juice, simmer over low heat to make a paste, and collect 200 grams of refined honey. Take a few spoons every morning and evening, mixed with white soup. ("Compendium of Materia Medica")

③ To treat heat evil that penetrates deep into the lower burner, pulse is rapid and rapid, dry tongue, teeth are black, fingers only feel crawling, and to prevent spasm in an emergency: 30 grams of Zhigancao, 30 grams of dried Rehmannia glutinosa, 30 grams of raw white peony root, 15 grams of donkey hide gelatin, 15 grams of Ophiopogon japonicus (heart removed), 15 grams of hemp seeds, 25 grams of raw oysters, and 40 grams of raw turtle shells. Boil eight cups of water to three-eighth cups and take it three times. (Erjia Fumai Decoction in "Febrile Disease Treatise")

④ To treat old malaria that persists for a long time: first roast the turtle shell, mash it into powder, and take three doses in season. ("Replenishing the back of the missing elbow")

⑤ Treatment of warm malaria: 100 grams each of Anemarrhena, Turtle Armor (broiled), Changshan, 150 grams of Digupi, 1 liter of bamboo leaves (cut), 200 grams of gypsum . Take seven liters of water, boil two liters and mix it five times, then warm it up and take it three times. Avoid garlic, hot noodles, pork, and fish. ("Filling the Deficient Back of the Elbow")

⑥ To treat malaria: 12 points of turtle shell (broiled), 3 points of black fan (burned), 3 points of skullcap, 6 points of bupleurum, 3 points of rat root (boiled) ), 3 points of dried ginger, 3 points of rhubarb, 5 points of peony, 3 points of cinnamon twigs, 1 point of Tingli (boil), 3 points of stone reed (remove the hair), 3 points of Magnolia officinalis, 5 points of peony (remove the heart), 2 points of Qumai, 3 points of Bigia, 3 points of donkey hide gelatin (broiled), 4 points of honey (broiled), 12 points of red saltpeter, 6 points of dung beetle (boiled), 2 points of peach kernel, 1 point of pinellia, 1 point of ginseng, and worms Five points (boil). The twenty-three flavors are made into powder. Take one bucket of ashes from the calcining stove, one bucket of dendrobium and five buckets of clear wine. Soak the ashes. Wait for half of the wine to be used up. Put the turtle shell in the middle. Boil until it becomes rotten like glue and paint. Wring out the juice and collect it. Decoction the medicine into pills, which are as big as Wuzi. Take seven pills with empty stomach, three times a day. (Tie Jia Jian Wan in "Synopsis of the Golden Chamber")

⑦ Treatment of disease addiction: Turtle Jia, Harlequin bark, dried ginger powder. Divide it into pills, take thirty pills in a hollow, and then take it. ("Treatise on the Properties of Medicine")

⑧ Treatment of abdominal hematoma: 50 grams of turtle shell (wash in soup, soak in rice vinegar for one night, dry on fire, quench and bake again, use shellfish as the base) degree, grind very finely), amber three pots (grind very finely), 25 grams of rhubarb (stir-fry with wine). Shang * grind carefully and make powder. Take 10 grams every morning, mixed with white soup. ("Zhen's Family Prescriptions")

⑨ To treat women with bad menstruation, abdominal and hypochondrium, and back and shoulder pain: 100 grams of turtle shell (coated with vinegar and roasted in yellow, remove the skirt palm), Sichuan 50 grams of rhubarb (filed, lightly fried), 75 grams of amber. Apply the medicine and pound the Luo into powder, then refine the honey into pills as big as sycamore seeds. Take twenty pills with warm wine. ("Sheng Hui Fang" Biejia Pills)

⑩ To treat women with five-color leakage, thinness, and inter-joint pain: burn the Turtle Jia to make it yellow, take it at the end, mix it with wine and take it with Fang Cun Dagger, three days a day. ("Behind the Elbow")

⑾ To treat persistent vomiting of blood: 50 grams of turtle shell (file into slices), 50 grams of clam powder (mix the turtle shell, fry in a pot until fragrant and yellow), 75 grams of cooked dried rehmannia glutinosa Gram (dry violently). Pound the above three flavors into fine powder. Take 10 grams each time. Mix it with wax tea after eating. After taking the medicine, you can sleep for a while.

("Shengji Zonglu" Biejia Powder)

⑿ To treat low back pain, do not lean down: one piece of turtle shell (broiled, pounded and sieved). Take Fang Cun Dagger, three times a day after eating. ("Filling the missing area behind the elbow")

⒀ To treat stone stranguria: use the powder of turtle armor and pestle, drink square inch dagger with wine, two or three days a day, and stone scabies will appear. ("Behind the Elbow")

⒁ To treat shortness of breath, inability to sleep or lie down, and gas accumulation in the abdomen: 50 grams of turtle shell (coated with vinegar and roasted until yellow, remove the skirt), 25 grams of almonds (soup) Dip, peel and sharpen, stir-fry the bran until slightly yellow), 50 grams of red Poria cocos, and 50 grams of Agustata. Pound and sieve the medicine into powder, take 25 grams each time, add half a cup of water, add half a point of ginger, a bunch of rushes, fry until six points, remove the dross, take it warmly regardless of the time. ("Sheng Hui Fang")

⒂ To treat yin deficiency and menstrual diarrhea: burn and grind the turtle shell, use one word for each word, add half a cup of wine, half a cup of children's urine, and fry seven inches of white scallions, remove the scallions. Take it in the afternoon, and stop smelling and sweating. ("Yi Lei Yuan Rong")

⒃ Treatment of stroke-cold, dysentery and vaginal discharge after childbirth: turtle shell as big as a hand, 100 grams each of angelica, coptis and dried ginger, Phellodendron 1 foot long, wide Three inches. Finely chop the five flavors, boil three liters with seven liters of water, drain, take three times a day. ("Qianjin Prescription" Turtle Armor Decoction)

⒄ Treatment of childhood epilepsy: Roast the turtle shell until it turns yellow, pound into powder, take 5 grams, take with milk, or take honey pills such as adzuki beans in large doses. ("Secret Records of Zimu")

⒅ Treatment of intestinal carbuncle pain: If Turtle A fever persists, grind it and take 5 grams with water, three times a day. (Liu Yuxi's "Xinxin Prescription")

⒆ To treat carbuncle that does not stop and spreads all over the back: Turtle Jia burns for its existing nature, grind and mix it. ("Strange Prescriptions for Strange Syndrome")

⒇ Treatment of hemorrhoids, rat milk near the anus, and pain caused by qi blockage: 150 grams of turtle shell (smear with vinegar to make it yellow, remove the skirt), 100 grams of betel nut. Pound the medicinal powder into powder, mix it with porridge and drink 10 grams before eating. ("Sheng Hui Fang" Turtle Jia Powder)

(21) To treat carbuncle on the husband's penis: One piece of turtle shell, put on it, burn it into powder, and apply it with chicken white. ("Qian Jin Yifang")

(22) Treat toothache: turtle shell. Bake and roll into fine powder, store in a dry container for later use, take 0.5 grams of turtle shell powder and place it on the surface of the tobacco leaves in the pipe, light it and smoke it. ("Selected Collection of the Whole Exhibition·Five Palaces")