Efficacy and effects of turtle shell

The turtle nail is the back nail of the snapper, which is a relatively common nourishing herb, mainly produced in the southern provinces of China, such as Sichuan, Hunan, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Hubei, Anhui and so on. What are the efficacy and effects of the turtle nail and how to consume it and what are the contraindications? This article will ask you the answer.

Softens and disperses knots

Soft-shelled turtle nail has the function of inhibiting the proliferation of connective tissues, dispersing nodules and swelling, and improving the immunity against tumors, making it suitable for cancer patients. Soft-shell turtle nail gum, made from turtle nails, can nourish Yin and disperse knots, strengthen tendons and bones, effectively eliminate consumption and heat, disperse stagnant blood, eliminate spleen swelling, and is often used to improve and relieve stagnant blood, menstrual abnormalities, obstruction and accumulation, and prolonged malaria.

Nourishing Yin and submerging Yang

Soft-shelled turtle nail can improve the deficiency of liver and kidney, hyperactivity of liver and yang, dizziness and headache, yin deficiency and fire, bone fever and straining, night sweating, fever and yin injury, residual fever, night fever and early cooling, fever and yin injury, and internal movement of deficiency wind.

Enhance immunity

Soft-shelled turtle shells contain animal gum, keratin, aspartic acid, serine, glutamic acid, glycine, alanine, 17 kinds of amino acids, etc. Inorganic elements include iron, copper, zinc, magnesium, phosphorus, chromium, manganese, aluminum, selenium, iodine, etc. It also contains vitamin D, fat, sugar and other components. Can improve immune function, can promote the formation of immunoglobulin, prolong the existence of antibodies.

Anti-tumor

Turtle nail helps to treat and cure chronic infections, or stubborn conditions such as tuberculosis, and is very effective against tumors.

Suitable for

Cancer patients: turtle nails have the effect of inhibiting connective tissue proliferation, increasing plasma protein and eliminating masses, which can enhance the resistance of the body of cancer patients. Yin deficiency: turtle nail is effective in improving Yin deficiency caused by strain, heat, night sweat, coldness, coldness in the morning, menorrhagia, weakness, sores and swelling, etc. It is suitable for people with Yin deficiency.

Contraindications to consumption

1. No appetite, indigestion, diarrhea caused by the spleen and stomach deficiency cold patients should be cautious. 2. Pregnant women and women in labor should take it with caution. 3. Should not be consumed for a long time.

Usage

Turtle nail can be used internally or externally, mostly decocted into a medicinal soup for internal use, and externally it can be powdered and applied to the affected area, mostly to relieve carbuncles.

Turtle shell soup

Ingredients: 20 grams of turtle nails, 10 red dates, 2 tablespoons of rice vinegar, and appropriate amount of rock sugar. Directions: Wash the herbs with water, drain and set aside; put the turtle nails in a pot and fry them yellow, then pour in the rice vinegar and quickly fry until dry, then put the turtle nails in a casserole. And add red dates and water to boil; after boiling 6, turn to low heat and continue to stew for 1 hour, and finally add rock sugar to mix well. Efficacy: This product has the effect of dispersing knots and strengthening the spleen, very suitable for patients with early cirrhosis of the liver.

Soft-shelled turtle nail drink

Ingredients: 3 grams each of turtle nail, Radix Platycodon grandiflorus and Qian Hu, 5 grams of Radix Panax ginseng, 2 grams of ginseng, 1 gram each of ginger and hedgehog, 1 gram of Cornus officinalis. Directions: Wash all the herbs with water and drain them; put all the herbs into a pot, add an appropriate amount of water to cover the herbs, decoct until boiling, then boil for about 5 minutes, and remove from the heat; strain the dregs and take the juice. Efficacy: This drink is helpful for the recovery and recuperation of stomach cancer patients.