Turtle jelly has the effect of nourishing yin and moisturizing dryness, lowering fire and removing vexation, clearing dampness and heat, cooling the blood and detoxifying the toxin. It can be used for the treatment of dryness, mouth and tongue sores, constipation, hot showers, red and white discharge, itchy skin, boils, sores and ulcers.
Turtle Ling Cream is mainly made from the valuable Hawksbill turtle and Poria cocos, and then refined with the medicines of Radix et Rhizoma Dioscoreae, Radix et Rhizoma Dandelionis, Honeysuckle, Chrysanthemum and so on. The finished product is brown or black semi-fluid; gas slightly fragrant, sweet flavor.
Turtle jelly is not advisable to eat more, this is because the turtle jelly has the role of clearing heat and detoxification, favoring the cold, the general cold stomach and spleen and stomach weak people or eat less for good. In addition, the turtle board also excites the uterus and promotes blood circulation, from this point of view, pregnant women and menstruating people should not eat more.
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According to the Cangwu County Records, as early as the end of the Ming and early Qing Dynasties, Cangwu County, the production of the sale of tortoise jelly store has formed a certain scale. Turtle jelly also repeatedly into the palace, quite popular with the nobles and royals.
Today, the tortoise jelly this thousand years of Chinese medicine food in the continuous improvement and development, the formula on the drug content is also more scientific, health care effect greatly enhanced. This makes it on the shelves of major supermarkets, into a unique "Chinese medicine snacks".
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