Soft-shelled turtle cures diseases

Soft-shelled turtle, also known as armored fish, original fish, group fish... is a three-toed reptile, living in freshwater in ponds, lakes, marshes, rivers... looking like a turtle but flatter and larger. According to traditional medicine, soft-shelled turtle meat is sweet, neutral, has the effect of nourishing yin and cooling blood, replenishing deficiency and softening and anti-cancer, often used as a nutritious food for people with heat constitution, or internal heat, sweating a lot...

Some ways to use soft-shelled turtle to cure diseases

Recipe 1: 1 soft-shelled turtle, 30g wolfberry, 30g Chinese yam, 15g chasteberry. Clean the soft-shelled turtle, cut into pieces, stew with the herbs until tender. When cooked, remove the residue, add spices, and eat hot. Uses: Treats liver and kidney damage, back and knee pain, dizziness, spermatorrhea...

Soft-shelled turtle is sweet and neutral in nature, and has the effect of nourishing yin and cooling blood.

Recipe 2: 1 soft-shelled turtle, 15g of Anemarrhena aspera, 15g of Fritillaria cirrhosa, 15g of Saposhnikovia divaricata, 15g of almonds. Clean the soft-shelled turtle, cut into pieces, stew with the herbs until tender. When cooked, remove the residue, add spices, and eat several times. Uses: Nourishes yin, clears heat, moistens the lungs and stops coughing. Used to treat respiratory diseases such as pharyngitis, chronic bronchitis, pulmonary tuberculosis, tuberculosis of bones and joints... which belong to the Yin-deficiency syndrome of the Lungs and Kidneys.

Recipe 3: 1 soft-shelled turtle, 60g pork fat. Clean the soft-shelled turtle, cut into pieces; chop the pork fat into small pieces, stew both until tender, add spices, divide into several servings. Uses: Nourishes the liver and blood, strengthens the body and expels evil, used to treat persistent malaria.

Recipe 4: 50g soft-shell turtle meat, 5g corn silk, 4g hawthorn, 2 jujubes, 1g fresh ginger, spices and enough water. Slice soft-shell turtle meat, wash corn silk, thinly slice seeded hawthorn, remove seeds from jujube, and thinly slice ginger. Put all in a pot and simmer until tender. When cooked, remove corn silk and eat both the meat and the water. Uses: Nourishes yin and blood, reduces blood fat and lowers blood pressure.

Lesson 5: 1 soft-shelled turtle, 20g Chinese yam, 20g longan, enough spices. Clean the soft-shelled turtle, remove the gall, slice the meat, put it in a bowl with the longan and Chinese yam, then steam until soft, add enough spices.

Eat hot. Uses: Treat chronic cough, nourish the brain and improve thinking ability.

Lesson 6: 30g soft-shell turtle shell, 1 pigeon, a little wine and enough spices. Dry soft-shell turtle shell, grind into powder and put into the belly of a cleaned pigeon with wine and spices, steam until soft, eat during the day. Uses: Treats menstrual obstruction due to body weakness.

Note: Pregnant women and people with weak spleen and stomach with symptoms such as thin body, pale complexion, easy fatigue, full stomach, slow digestion, bland mouth, loss of appetite, cold hands and feet and fatigue, loose or watery stools, pale tongue and teeth marks... should not eat soft-shelled turtle. If used, it must be combined with spices that are warm and have the effect of stimulating digestion. According to folk experience, soft-shelled turtle meat should not be eaten with perilla because it will cause itching and rash.

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