Efficacy: Shanrui can be used as medicine in all parts of the body, which has the effects of nourishing yin and clearing away heat, calming the liver and tonifying the kidney, dispersing stagnation and removing blood stasis, and its blood can also treat anemia, lung disease, heart disease, asthma, neurasthenia and so on.

Indications: It is used to treat fever with yin injury, fever due to yin deficiency, diarrhea and infantile high fever.

Taste: salty, cold. Liver and kidney meridians.

Administration and dosage: oral: decoction, 100-200g. Its eggs, 2-6. Its bile, 1-3g.

Special efficacy: besides being edible, turtle shell also contains a lot of chemical components such as phosphorus and calcium. In Guangdong, people often dry or dry shells and light or burn them in an open place to achieve mosquito repellent effect.

Alias: Shanrui (China Medicinal Fauna)

Distribution of animal and plant resources: distributed in China, Guangdong, Hainan Island, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places.

Collection and storage of medicinal materials: they are produced all year round, mostly in summer, and the back shell is rich in collagen. After catching it, use a kitchen knife to separate it from the skirt along the carapace, clean up the meat and skin left on the carapace, and dry it or preserve it in the sun after washing.

Textual research: It was first published in China Journal of Medicinal Animals.

Chemical composition of traditional Chinese medicine: ① Meat contains 253-289 mg/100 g of extractable nitrogen, including taurine, histidine, B- alanine, glutamine, glutamic acid, B- creatine, etc. ② The carapace and carapace contain collagen, polypeptide, various amino acids and a lot of phosphorus and calcium.

Related reports release giant turtles

(2006-04-0413:10: 24 Guangzhou Daily) Yesterday morning, under the escort of the staff of Shantou Wildlife Protection Management Office, a giant turtle weighing 40 kilograms returned to nature. According to reports, this giant turtle was accidentally caught by Guo Hengchi, a villager from Tongbo Village, Tongyu Town, Chaoyang District, Shantou City, while fishing by the Lianjiang River. According to experts from Shantou Wildlife Protection and Management Office, this giant turtle is Eriocheir sinensis, which belongs to the national second-class protected wild animal.

According to Guo, a villager who caught the giant turtle, he carried it on his shoulder and took it home. Then he washed the giant turtle and kept it in clear water for the time being.

According to the measurement, the giant tortoise is about 90 cm long and 60 cm wide, with the thickest part of the whole body reaching 20 cm and weighing 40 kg.

Xishuangbanna is now a giant turtle weighing 53 pounds.

Xinhuanet Kunming, August 24th (Reporter Wu Xiaoyang) According to the information provided by the Forest Public Security Bureau of Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, it weighs 53kg. After verification, this turtle is a national second-class protected animal, and its age is about 160 years old. The police and villagers have put it back in the Lancang River.

Chang Zongbo, a policeman from Xishuangbanna Forest Public Security Bureau, said that Nabanhe Police Station of Xishuangbanna Forest Public Security Bureau received a phone call from Han Yan, the village head of Dian Man, gasa town, Jinghong City, saying that Han Yan accidentally caught a huge wild turtle while playing by the Lancang River and wanted to release it to the Forest Public Security Bureau. After receiving the report, the forest police immediately rushed to Han Yan's home.

At Han Yan's home, the police saw that the back shell of this huge wild turtle was bigger than the average washbasin, and its neck was as thick as an adult's wrist. Many villagers came to watch and were amazed. According to Han Yan, he found this giant turtle near the Lancang River. At that time, the giant turtle was motionless on all fours. In order to prevent being caught and eaten, he took the giant turtle home with his son.

Not only has Han Yan never seen such a huge turtle, but even the local old people say "no", and the villagers who come to his house to watch the excitement are in an endless stream. An aquatic professional estimated that the giant turtle found near Lancang River was about 160 years old. Some tourists are willing to pay a high price for it, but Han Yan is unmoved.

Verified by the forest police, this giant turtle is a national second-class protected wild animal, mountain turtle. After confirming that the giant turtle had no trauma and was in a healthy condition suitable for release, the police and several villagers took the giant turtle to the river at the intersection of Lancang River and Naban River and released it to nature.

Animals also have high ornamental value and can be used as medicine, which has a certain effect on invigorating qi and keeping in good health for the weak. At the same time, it also has high economic value, and the price per kilogram is three times that of the same amount of soft-shelled turtle. The price of Chinese soft-shelled turtle is 80- 100 yuan per kilogram.