As the saying goes, "a thousand-year-old king is a turtle for 80 thousand years." Turtles are the "longevity stars" among animals. Therefore, the ancients believed that eating turtle meat could prolong life.
"Compendium of Materia Medica" says: "Nail fish" dredge ren meridian, help yang road and tonify yin and blood. Benefiting essence and treating weakness. " Therefore, turtle meat can be used as a nourishing food for patients with long-term blood deficiency, fatigue, paralysis, cough and hemoptysis. In addition, tortoise blood, glans and tortoise plastron all have medicinal value. For example, taking tortoise blood and yellow wine together can treat female amenorrhea, and glans penis can treat concussion sequelae, headache and dizziness. Tortoise shell and tortoise plastron glue are the most widely used drugs in TCM. The tortoise version has the effects of nourishing yin and clearing heat, tonifying kidney and strengthening bones, tonifying deficiency and strengthening body, reducing swelling and treating carbuncle. Clinically, it is often used to treat pulmonary tuberculosis, lymphoid tuberculosis and bone tuberculosis, and can also be used to treat chronic nephritis, neurasthenia and chronic hepatitis. The nourishing effect of tortoise plastron is better than that of tortoise plastron, which has the function of stopping bleeding and enriching blood, and is suitable for physical weakness caused by anemia, metrorrhagia and kidney deficiency. Research by scientific research institutions found that tortoise shell has certain anti-tumor effect. Colla Plastri Testudinis combined with other drugs to treat primary liver cancer and liver tumor can relieve patients' symptoms, enhance their physique and prolong their life. There are many folk remedies for treating diseases with turtles. For example, the tortoise shell is baked and ground into fine powder, 3g each time, twice a day, and 2 months is a course of treatment, which can cure bone tuberculosis.