Meat of Soft-Shelled Turtle

VARIANT NAMES: Jiayu, Tuanyu.

ORIGIN: The meat of Amyda sinensis (Wiegmann) [Trionychidae].

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION: Every 100g of the edible part contains 16.5g of protein, 1.0g of fat, 1.6g of carbohydrate, 107mg of calcium, 135mg of phosphorus, 1.4mg of iron, 0.62mg of thiamine, 0.37mg of ovoflavin, 3.7mg of nicotinic acid, and 13 IU of vitamin A.

NATURE, FLAVOR AND CHANNEL TROPISM: Sweet in flavor and neutral in nature, acting on the liver channel.

EFFICIENCIES AND INDICATIONS: Nourishingyin and cooling the blood, restoring the vital energy and curing the diseases resulting from asthenia of viscera.  It is used to treat consumptive fever due to yin deficiency, chronic malaria, Chronic Gastritis, protracted dysentery, Intermenstrual Bleeding, Leukorrhagia, scrofula, weakness during convalescence, bodily weakness of the aged.

DIRECTIONS: To be decocted in clear soup, steamed,or made into medicated diet. Pregnant women or those who manifest the syndrome of deficiency of yang of the spleen and stomach should avoid it.

SUPPLEMENT: Turtle Shell: It is the back shell of the Chinese soft-shelled turtle, Amyda sinensis (Wiegmann), containing animal gum, keratin, iodine value, and vitamin D.Having the effects of nourishingyin to remove heat, calming the liver to relieve convulsion, softening the hard lumps, it is used to treat consumptive fever and hectic fever due toyin deficiency, convulsion due to deficiency of yin, malaria, mass in the abdomen, Amenorrhea, metrorrhagia or metrostaxis, Infantile Convulsion. It is to be decocted or boiled down into soft extract for internal use, or used as an ingredient of boluses, pills or powder.