Cooked turtle shells can be eaten after being cooked and powdered. It is a good nutritional supplement.

The carapace of soft-shell turtles, the medicinal name of which is "turtle shell", has the functions of inhibiting the proliferation of connective tissue, increasing plasma protein, dispersing stagnation and reducing swelling, and can improve anti-tumor immunity; boiling turtle shell The glue, called turtle shell glue, has the effects of nourishing yin and replenishing kidneys, dispersing phlegm, strengthening muscles and bones. It can disperse blood congestion, eliminate splenic swelling, eliminate tuberculosis, regulate menstruation, and can prevent and treat kidney deficiency, dizziness and spermatorrhea. .

Turtle shell is suitable for people with:

Deficiency of the spleen and stomach, little food and loose stools, and pregnant women should not take it.

Therapeutic effects of turtle shell:

Turtle shell is salty in taste and slightly cold in nature; it returns to the liver and kidney meridian; it is hard and submissive, and good at entering yin and blood;

It has the effect of nourishing yin and clearing away heat, subduing yang and calming wind, softening and dispersing stagnation;

It is mainly used to treat fever caused by yin deficiency, labor-heat and bone steaming, febrile disease damaging yin, internal movement of wind due to deficiency, epilepsy in children, and malaria. , amenorrhea, ulcers, water and fire burns.

The foods of turtle shells are incompatible with each other:

The turtle shells should avoid amaranth.

Guidelines for how to use turtle shell:

1. It is suitable for raw use to nourish yin and subdue yang, and it is suitable to be roasted with vinegar to soften and dissolve hard knots.

2. For those with deficiency of liver and kidney yin and excessive fire resulting from fatigue, bone steaming, hot flashes, night sweats, and body weight loss, it can be combined with Yin Bupleurum, Anemarrhena, Artemisia annua, Digupi, etc.

3. In the late stage of febrile disease, liver yin is consumed, resulting in internal movement of deficient wind, twitching of fingers, and even convulsions, dry tongue, red teeth, and dry teeth. It can be combined with oysters, raw rehmannia glutinosa, donkey-hide gelatin, and white peony root. The combination can nourish yin, subdue yang and extinguish wind.

4. If malaria occurs for a long time and forms malaria, or if qi, blood, phlegm and dampness condense and cause pimples, it can be combined with Bupleurum, rhubarb, dung beetle, etc.

But because production is troublesome, generally no one specializes in production.

Now only Ziyunteng Turtle Restaurant sells well-made ones.

Beijing’s Ziyunteng Turtle Restaurant is on the 2nd floor of Guangming Hotel, No. 42 Liangmaqiao Road, Chaoyang District.

Chongqing’s is under the Shimen Bridge of Oriental Harbor, Beibin Road, Jiangbei District.