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Tortoise shell and tortoise shell gum have the effect of nourishing yin and clearing heat, benefiting kidneys and bones, replenishing weakness and strength, reducing swelling and relieving pain. In addition to ancient medicine, tortoiseshell gum is also a popular health product for modern people. However, as a "close relative" of the turtle, can turtle shell be used as a substitute for turtle shell? Today, we will solve the puzzle for everyone, and when you go to buy tortoiseshell glue in the future, you can not be fooled!
Efficacy of tortoiseshell
The record of the turtle shell first appears in the most physical monograph in China, the Shennong Materia Medica. The book includes turtle shells in the list of high-grade drugs. The book records: "Turtle shell, salty taste, flat." The main leakage is white, broken fistula, scabies, five hemorrhoids, yin erosion, wet paralysis, weak limbs, and children's cheeks are incompatible. Serve for a long time, light body, not hungry. A house of gods. Ikuikezawa. "It means: the tortoiseshell tastes salty and flat. Indications for the treatment of women's non-menstrual vaginal bleeding, vaginal discharge abnormalities and red and white and other gynecological diseases, can dissipate the hidden blood stasis in the woman's abdomen, improve the condition of long-term malaria, treat various hemorrhoids, women's vulva or vaginal itching ulcers and other inflammation, remove rheumatic pain, heavy limb weakness, children's gills incompatibility and so on. If taken for a long time, the body is light and the stomach is not hungry. Also known as the House of The Gods. It is produced in lakes and seas.
According to another comprehensive historical medical record, the efficacy of tortoise shell is roughly concentrated in several aspects:
The first is to treat yin deficiency and hyperactivity, yin deficiency and internal heat, and virtual wind internal movement. Tortoise shell grows in nourishing kidney yin and nourishing liver yin, so it is suitable for the above evidence caused by liver and kidney yin deficiency. For the evidence of yin and yang hyperdiscence and dizziness, the turtle shell can also dive into the yang, and is often used with Tianmendong, white peony, oysters and other products, such as zhen liver extinguishing wind soup (see "Medical Intentions in the Heart of the West"),the treatment of yin deficiency internal heat, bone steaming hot flashes, night sweat sperm, often with the yin and fire of the ripe ground yellow, Zhimu, yellow cedar and other products, such as the great tonic yin pill (see "Danxi Heart Method").
The second is to treat kidney deficiency bone impotence, fontanelle incompatibility, turtle shell is longer than nourishing the kidney and nourishing the liver, but also can strengthen the bone, so it is mostly used for kidney deficiency of the muscles and bones are not healthy, waist and knees are sore and soft, lack of walking and children's chicken breasts, turtle back, fontanelle does not match the evidence, often with cooked yellow, zhimu, yellow cedar, Suoyang and other products, such as tiger submersible pills (see "Danxi Heart Method").
The third is to treat yin and blood deficiency, palpitations, insomnia, and forgetfulness. Tortoise shell into the heart and kidneys, but also can nourish the blood to replenish the heart, calm the mind, suitable for insufficient yin blood, heart and kidney loss of panic, insomnia, forgetfulness of the evidence, often with the stone calamus, yuanzhi, keel and other medicines, such as Kong Sheng pillow Zhongdan (see "Preparation for Emergency Thousand Gold Recipes").
The fourth is to treat yin deficiency blood fever, which is not solid. Tortoiseshells stop bleeding. Because it is longer than nourishing the liver and kidneys, the sex is cold, so it is especially suitable for yin deficiency and blood fever, rushing to the collapse of the insularity, menorrhagia. It is often used with raw ground yellow, skullcap, ground elm and so on.
Similarities and differences between tortoiseshell and turtle carapace
As a "close relative" of tortoiseshell, turtle shells are often indistinguishable and are easily confused in many cases. In fact, in the writings of successive Materia Medica, the difference between the two is still quite large. As early as the "Shennong Materia Medica", turtle nails were included in the middle of the medicine, and the book said: "One hundred and twenty kinds of Chinese medicine are subjects, and the main nourishment is to respond to people, non-toxic, poisonous, and appropriate." Those who want to curb the disease and make up for it, this middle sutra. "Obviously, compared to the high-quality drugs, the effect of turtle shells is not as good as that of turtle shells.
For the efficacy of turtle shell, the Shennong Materia Medica says: "Turtle shell, salty taste, flat." The Lord's heart is paralyzed, hard, cold and hot, depolar polyps, yin worms, hemorrhoids, evil flesh. Ikuikezawa. "Meaning: turtle shell, salty taste, flat sex. Indications for the treatment of abdominal fistula, hard accumulation, chills and fever, extra polyps, male and female genital inflammation, itching and pain, hemorrhoids and necrotic flesh.
Although turtles and turtles live in ponds, lakes and seas, turtle shells and turtle shells also have similarities, but in comparison, there is no longer a health significance such as "long-term service, light body, no hunger", and the effect is limited to the treatment of diseases. For example, there are turtle nails in Qin Gang Turtle Armor Powder (Taiping Huimin and Agent Bureau Fang) and Qing Bone Powder ("Evidence and Treatment Criterion and Class Fang"), which are used to treat the disease of tuberculosis deficiency and hot bone steaming. In the treatment of Jiaowen disease in the "Wen Disease Identification", turtle nails are also used in the hot and deep second-class compound pulse soup and the three-dimensional compound pulse soup.
In addition, successive generations of physicians have different understandings of the similarities and differences in efficacy between the two, such as the Jin Dynasty Li Gao's "Pearl Sac Tonic Medicinal Endowment": "However, turtle nails cure malaria and break fistulas; tortoise shells are strong and bone-strengthening, and more cure collapse diseases." "The difference between the power of the turtle armor attack and the power of the turtle armor to make up for the weakness is clearly emphasized." Li Shizhen said in the "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Turtles, beetles also." Aquatic terrestrial, with a ridge and a ridge, similar to a turtle. There are meat skirts on the four edges, so it is called turtle, armor wrapped in flesh; turtle, flesh wrapped in armor. No ears, eyes for hearing. Pure females and no males, with snakes and shrews as horses.
In general, turtle shell and turtle shell can nourish the yin of the liver and kidneys, and the yang of the liver. It is suitable for symptoms such as insufficient kidney yin, bone steaming hot flashes, night sweats, sperm retention, and headache and dizziness of insufficient liver yin, hyperactivity of liver and yang. However, the tortoiseshell grows longer than nourishing the kidneys, and the turtle carapace is longer than the fever deficiency. In addition, the turtle shell also has the effect of strengthening bones, replenishing blood, nourishing the heart, etc., for liver and kidney deficiency, weak muscles and bones, waist and knee soreness, women's collapse, menorrhagia and insufficient blood, insomnia and forgetfulness and other symptoms; turtle nails are longer than soft and firm loose knots, often used for abdominal fistula accumulation.
Although the two are similar, their efficacy in clinical practice is very different.
In terms of efficacy, although turtle nails can treat liver and kidney yin deficiency evidence, but for yin deficiency internal heat evidence, turtle shell nourishing power is not as good as turtle shell, but longer than the deficiency of fever, bone removal, for the late stage of temperature disease, yin fluid consumption, evil volt yin, night heat and early cooling, heat retreat without sweat, often with peony skin, raw ground yellow, artemisia annua and other products, such as artemisia annua turtle shell soup (see "Wen Disease Strip Identification"),for fistula accumulation disease, turtle nail taste salty, longer than soft and firm loose knots, suitable for liver and spleen enlargement and other fistula accumulation, often with peony skin, peach kernels, catfish, magnolia, half summer and so on. It is used to cure malaria for a long time, and the coercion is hard into pieces, such as turtle shell decoction pills (see "Outline of the Golden Plateau").
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