Can eating turtle meat nourish yin?

Turtle meat, also known as soft-shelled turtle meat, is a common type of meat in daily life. The nutritional value of turtle meat is very high. It is rich in a large number of nutrients and minerals. Regular consumption can nourish yin and strengthen yang. It can also effectively improve some physical diseases, enhance human immunity, and beautify the skin. Turtle meat can be stewed into soup and eaten.

Does eating turtle meat nourish yin?

It strengthens Yang Qi and greatly replenishes the deficiency of Yin.

Modern medicine believes that soft-shelled turtles can improve human immune function, enhance the body's resistance, delay aging, resist skin aging and inhibit cancer cells. Soft-shelled turtles can enrich the skin by improving the overall health of the human body. People with yin deficiency and dry skin can often eat soft-shelled turtles, which will have a more obvious skin-moisturizing effect. In addition to its beautifying and moisturizing effects, soft-shelled turtle can also treat low fever, anemia, yin deficiency cough, irregular menstruation, high blood pressure, dizziness, tinnitus, diabetes, prolapse, skin infections, genital sores and other diseases.

Food recipes

Turn the turtle upside down with its back facing downwards, with its head sticking out, grab the neck and pull it out, cut it off along the neck and let all the blood drain out. Then use a knife to cut open the turtle from the base of the neck to the tail, take out the internal organs, cut off the claws and tail, soak it in hot water, wipe off the white mucous membrane, scrape off the black layer, peel off the back shell, cut the turtle into 6 pieces, put it in a pot of clean water, bring to a boil, remove and wash. Put turtle meat in the pot, add chicken broth, cooking wine, salt, sugar, scallion and ginger, bring to a boil over high heat, then simmer until half cooked. Add a gauze bag containing Stemona bulbus, Rehmannia root bark, Radix Rehmanniae, and Rhizoma Anemarrhenae (all washed), continue simmering until the turtle meat is cooked through, remove the scallion, ginger and medicine bag, and drizzle with lard.

Efficacy and Usage

Efficacy: Nourishes yin and clears heat, cools blood and moistens dryness.

Usage: Eat meat and drink soup as a side dish.

Application: Suitable for patients with Yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire, dry mouth and throat, fever in the five parts of the body, dry cough and little sputum.

Food incompatibility

Soft-shelled turtle: Soft-shelled turtle should not be eaten with eggs, duck eggs, duck meat, pork, rabbit meat, chicken, eel, crab, amaranth, peaches, mint, celery, and mustard.

Raw Rehmannia root: This product is incompatible with radish, scallion, leek and allium macrostemon.

Turtle diet recipe :

Recipe for nourishing yin and replenishing qi: 1 soft-shelled turtle weighing about 500 grams, remove the head and internal organs, and cut into pieces; add 50 grams each of wolfberry and astragalus, cook until the meat is tender, eat the meat and drink the soup. Suitable for people with deficiency of both qi and yin, and insufficiency of liver and kidney.

Recipe for nourishing blood and yin: 1 soft-shelled turtle weighing about 500 grams is processed in the same way as above. 50 grams each of angelica and codonopsis are wrapped in gauze and cooked together with the soft-shelled turtle until the meat is tender. Remove the Chinese medicine, add seasonings, eat the meat and drink the soup. It can be used for chronic anemia, decreased immunity, dry mouth, emaciation and fatigue.