Description

CHARACTERISTICS:

Elliptical or oval in shape, the shell is usually 10-15cm long and 9-14cm wide with bulge on the dorsum. The outer surface is blackish-brown or dark green in colour. It has a faint luster, with fine reticular furrows and grayish-yellow or grayish-white spots. The outer surface also has a vertical ridge in the middle and 8 symmetrical transverse concave veins on both sides repectively. Sawtooth-shaped seams can be seen after the outer skin has been peeled off. The inner surface is whitish in colour with protruding vertebras lying in the middle. The cervical bines are rolled inwardly. There are 8 ribs on each side, stretching beyond the edge. The whole shell is solid and hard in texture and has a weak fishy odor and an insipid taste.

ACTIONS AND INDICATIONS :

1.Nourishing yin and suppressing hyperactive yang, reducing fever and removing hectic fever due to yin-deficiency.

It is used for the treatment of consumption of yin caused by febrile diseases, stirring up of endopathic wind of deficiency type, hectic fever due to yin-deficiency, tidal fever and night sweat.

2.Resolving hard lumps.

It is used for the treatment of chronic malaria, malaria with splenomegaly, amenorrhea, and mass in the abdomen. Steamed fresh-water turtle shell is more efficacious in nourishing yin and suppressing hyperactive yang, while vinegared fresh-water turtle shell is more efficacious in resolving hard lumps.

ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE:

9-24 grams daily for decoction.

REMARKS:

Decoct the shell first when the shell is used together with other material medical.

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