How to eat turtle shell

Turtle shell has many benefits for the human body. Turtle shell can improve the symptoms of excessive menstrual flow, which is an abnormal sign for women. Turtle shell can improve the symptoms of liver and kidney yin deficiency, and it is good for tonifying the kidney. Kidney deficiency is more common in men, and turtle shell can be used to tonify the kidney. It also has therapeutic benefits for hyperactivity of liver yang and dizziness. Many people don’t know how to eat turtle shell. How to eat turtle shell? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. How to eat turtle shell?

1. Raw tortoise shell. Take the belly plate, remove the tendons and meat, wash and dry it in the sun or in the air, and it is called "blood plate" and has the best quality. If a live turtle is boiled to death in boiling water, the belly plate is removed, the remaining meat is removed, and it is dried in the sun, this is called "scalding the turtle". "Blood plates" or "scald plates" often have residual meat attached to them. Before use, they should be soaked in water in a tank for 20 days in summer and 40 days in winter without changing the water. Take them out and wash them until there is no odor, then dry them in the sun to make raw turtle shells.

2. Vinegar and turtle shell. Put sand in a pot and fry it until hot, add the washed raw turtle shell, fry until the surface is slightly yellow, take it out, sieve out the sand, put it in a basin of vinegar to soak it slightly, take it out, rinse it with water, and dry it in the sun. Use 30 kg of vinegar for every 100 kg of tortoise shell.

3. Turtle shell paste. Put the washed vinegar tortoise shell into the pot and boil it until the gelatin is dissolved and the remaining tortoise shell becomes crispy. Boil it until the tortoise shell breaks when squeezed by hand. Mix the filtrates from each time, add a little alum powder, let it stand, filter out the supernatant, concentrate it over low heat, or add appropriate amount of rice wine and rock sugar until it becomes a thick paste, pour it into a special groove, wait for natural condensation, and cut into small pieces. Yin Yu is the finished product of Jiao Pukou.

2. Turtle Shell

A general term for the entire carapace of turtles. The turtle's carapace consists of a dorsal carapace and a flat plastron. The part connecting the dorsal and ventral carapace is called the carapace bridge. The entire turtle shell is box-shaped, and the turtle's head, neck, limbs and tail can generally stretch and retract freely inside it, providing good protection. The dorsal and ventral carapaces are composed of two layers. The inner layer is composed of bony plates, which originate from the dermis; the outer layer is composed of horny scutes, which originate from the epidermis. The number and arrangement of scutes and bony plates is one of the bases for the classification of turtles.

3. Turtle Shell Effects

1. Treatment of Yin deficiency and blood heat

For damage to Chong and Ren meridians, excessive menstruation, and metrorrhagia, it can be used in combination with white peony root, scutellaria baicalensis, phellodendron chinense, and toona sinensis root bark.

2. Treatment of liver and kidney yin deficiency

For those with hyperactivity of liver yang, dizziness, swollen eyes and tinnitus, it can be used with raw oysters, Chinese rhizome and raw white peony root.

3. Treatment of vertigo and malaise

Used for headache, dizziness, or hypertension. For those with paralysis, weak tendons and bones, and severe deficiency of both qi and blood, it can be used in combination with phellodendron chinense, dried ginger, and tangerine peel.

4. Treatment of Yin Blood Deficiency

For those who suffer from mental malnutrition, palpitations, restlessness, insomnia and forgetfulness, it can be used with dragon bone, polygala and calamus.