Tortoise plastron glue is a kind of glue stick made by decocting and concentrating tortoise's abdominal shell. It is mild in nature, sweet and salty in taste, and has the functions of nourishing yin, suppressing yang, tonifying kidney and strengthening bones, and enriching blood and stopping bleeding. It is often used for bone steaming, hot flashes, night sweats and nocturnal emission caused by deficiency of kidney yin, as well as incomplete fontanel and weak bones and muscles in children.
efficacy: nourishing yin, enriching blood and stopping bleeding.
main treatment: treating yin deficiency and blood deficiency, bone steaming due to fatigue, hematemesis, epistaxis, vexation with heat and fright, lumbago due to kidney deficiency, weakness of feet and knees, metrorrhagia and leukorrhagia.
tropism of nature and taste: sweet and salty, flat. ① Compendium of Medical Forest: "Sweet and salty, cold." ② Annals of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine: "Sweet and slightly salty, non-toxic." Enter the lung, liver and kidney meridians
Usage and dosage
Take it with boiled water or yellow wine, 1 ~ 3 yuan.
medication should not be taken
people with cold and dampness in the stomach should not take it. ① Compendium of Materia Medica: "Evil ginseng." ② "Materia Medica from the New": "Evil Radix Adenophorae." ③ "Deserved Materia Medica": "Spleen and stomach are deficient in cold, which is really fine and cold, and both are forbidden."
pharmaceutical preparation method
take the soaked turtle version, put it in a pot and fry it in water for several times until the gum is gone, and remove me. Filtering and combining the glue solution decocted for many times, adding a little alum powder, standing, filtering to obtain clear glue solution, concentrating with slow fire (or adding appropriate amount of yellow wine and crystal sugar) until it becomes thick paste, pouring into a gel tank, condensing, taking out, cutting into small pieces, and drying in the shade.
Identification of raw medicinal materials
It is a square flat block, about 2.6 cm long, 2.5 cm wide and .8 cm thick. It is brown and slightly green, with an old yellow "oil head" with bristles on it. It is transparent and clean as amber to light. Hard. Crispy and transparent is preferred.