The turtle, also known as groupers, water fish, soft-shelled turtles, is actually not a fish, is a turtle family animals. From the point of view of Chinese medicine dietary therapy, turtle is sweet and flat in nature, into the liver, spleen meridian, has the role of nourishing yin, cooling blood, clearing heat, dispersing knots, and tonifying the kidneys, and so on. According to "Dietary Records of Sui Xijiu", it "nourishes the yin of liver and kidney, clears the heat of deficiency labor, and is good for prolapse of anus, disintegration of the belt, scrofula, and lumps in the abdomen". Daily Use of Materia Medica" said that it can "greatly replenish the deficiency of yin". It can be seen that the deficiency of yin in long-term illness, bone vapor and labor heat, emaciation and thirst can be supplemented by turtle. Tumor patients with chronic illness, radiotherapy and chemotherapy after the dry mouth and tongue, urinary shortness and redness, heartburn and fever, lethargy and fatigue, etc. are also suitable for eating turtle.

The efficacy of turtle;

Turtle is a high-protein food, per 100 grams of turtle containing 17.3 grams of protein, calcium 124 milligrams, 94 milligrams of phosphorus, vitamin A91 international units, which can significantly increase the concentration of plasma proteins, to correct the imbalance between the proportion of plasma albumin and globulin, and to improve the immune function of the body, this is consistent with traditional Chinese medicine, said the "turtle big tonic! This is consistent with the traditional Chinese medicine saying "turtle is a great tonic". Therefore, tuberculosis, tumors, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, liver disease and other chronic wasting disease patients can use turtle to do medicine.

The back armor of turtle is called turtle armor, which is quite famous Chinese herbal medicine with the function of nourishing yin and submerging yang, softening and dispersing knots. It is used for fever and yin injury, internal movement of deficiency wind, amenorrhea, swollen liver and spleen, distension and pain of the ribs, etc. It is also a commonly used medication in traditional Chinese medicine oncology. Modern medical research has confirmed that turtle shell can improve cellular immune function, inhibit tumors, and improve physical strength, fatigue, hypoxia and cold resistance in experimental animals. Traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions involving turtle shells, such as turtle shell pills, turtle shell decoction pills, and astragalus and turtle shell soup, are commonly used in the treatment of tumors in Chinese medicine.

There are also contraindications to eating turtle;

The person who is full of anorexia, loose stools, spleen and stomach cold should not eat turtle; there is edema, pleural and abdominal fluid, hyperlipoproteinemia should not eat turtle; children and pregnant women should be eaten with caution; the dead turtle can not be eaten. Although the turtle complementary, do not eat more, eat for a long time, to prevent "nourishing greasy impede the spleen", affecting the normal digestive function.

The role of turtle;

Nourishing yin and yi qi formula: used for tumors, tuberculosis and other chronic diseases caused by or radiotherapy caused by qi and yin deficiency, liver and kidney insufficiency, manifested as shortness of breath and fatigue, lumbar and knee fatigue, hands and feet, heart fever, leukocyte decline, and so on. Turtle a about 500 grams, remove the head and internal organs, cut blocks, berries, Shayuanzi 50 grams of each washed gauze wrapped, *** cook until the meat of the turtle rotten, go to the Chinese medicine plus seasonings, eat meat and drink soup.

To replenish blood and nourish yin party: used for chronic disease anemia, decreased immune function, dry mouth and throat, emaciation and fatigue. Turtle a about 500 grams, 50 grams of ginseng and turtle **** cooked until the meat is rotten, go to the Chinese medicine and seasoning, eat meat and drink soup.

Nurturing Yin and stopping sweating formula: used for Yin deficiency and internal heat, night sweating, five heartburn and heat. Floating wheat 100 grams, raw astragalus 50 grams, soak 6 hours after the gauze wrapped tightly, a turtle head and viscera, cut and Chinese medicine **** cooked to meat rotten, go to the Chinese medicine with salt and monosodium glutamate, eat meat and drink soup. Seasonings do not use peppers, chili peppers, dashi, cinnamon and other pungent warm dispersal products.

Cooling the blood to stop bleeding formula: for blood heat, blood, bright red, hemoptysis and gastrointestinal bleeding. About 500 grams of fresh lotus root sliced and boiled in water, gauze bag of cranesbill, 100 grams of each root and fresh lotus root **** cook about half an hour out, add a turtle, slow cooking, until the meat is rotten, add the right amount of salt, eat the meat and drink the soup.