Turtle is full of treasures, and its head, nails, bones, meat, eggs, gallbladder and fat can all be used as medicine. Famous doctors don't record that nail fish has the effect of tonifying the middle energizer and benefiting qi. According to "Compendium of Materia Medica", onychomycosis has many functions, such as nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, clearing away heat and removing blood stasis, strengthening spleen and strengthening stomach. Can be used for treating fatigue, night sweats, yin deficiency and hyperactivity of yang, backache and leg pain, diarrhea due to chronic illness, epilepsy in children, amenorrhea in women, and dystocia. Daily Materia Medica holds that external application of tortoise blood can treat facial nerve, apoplexy, thirst, fatigue, hot flashes and bone tuberculosis. Turtle blood contains animal glue, keratin, iodine, vitamin D and other ingredients, which can suppress yang and nourish blood, reduce swelling and calm the liver, and treat liver cirrhosis, hepatosplenomegaly, amenorrhea, menstrual leakage and epilepsy in children. Turtle gall can cure hemorrhoids and leakage. Turtle eggs can cure chronic dysentery. Bake the glans penis and grind it into powder, and take it with yellow wine to cure proctoptosis. The fat of soft-shelled turtle can nourish yin and yang and treat white hair. Modern science believes that soft-shelled turtle is rich in vitamin A, vitamin E, collagen, various amino acids, unsaturated fatty acids and trace elements, which can improve human immune function, promote metabolism, enhance human disease resistance, and have the functions of caring skin and delaying aging. However, there are also unsuitable people: due to gastric mucosal edema, intestinal villi thickening and shortening, bile secretion disorder and other factors, the digestion and absorption function of hepatitis patients is greatly weakened. Turtle is rich in protein, which is not only difficult for patients to absorb after eating, but also increases the burden on the liver. In severe cases, there will be a lot of necrosis of liver cells, a sharp increase in serum bilirubin and a rise in plasma concentration, which will induce hepatic coma.

People with weak gastrointestinal function and indigestion should be careful to eat. Especially those suffering from gastroenteritis, gastric ulcer, cholecystitis and other digestive system diseases.

Insomnia, pregnant women and postpartum diarrhea are also not suitable for eating.