Turtle Blood - "Compilation of National Chinese Herbal Medicines"

Pinyin name Biē Xue

Alias ??Tuanyu Blood

Source: Reptiles Turtles Amyda sinensis (Wiegmann), a Chinese soft-shell turtle of the family Softshellidae, uses its blood as medicine.

The habitat is distributed from the northeast to Hainan Island, Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, and Yunnan.

Indications: Nourishing yin and reducing fever. And has a strengthening effect.

To treat tuberculosis hot flashes: take blood from 1 turtle, mix it with an appropriate amount of hot rice wine, and finish it on the same day. It is better to use it continuously.

Attached Recipe

Stir-fried Bupleurum with Turtle Blood: It is also used for tuberculosis and reduces deficiency heat.

Turtle blood lime powder: spread externally to treat traumatic bleeding (including bruises, knife wounds, gunshot and shrapnel wounds, etc.). Preparation method: Slaughter the turtle to collect blood, drop it into dry lime powder, mix and knead it into a ball, thread it into a ball, hang it in a ventilated place to dry in the shade, and grind it into powder.

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Turtle Blood - "*Dictionary"

Source "Compendium"

Pinyin name Biē Xue

The source is the blood of the Chinese soft-shelled turtle, a member of the family Softshell Turtle.

Indications:

Treats deviated mouth and eyes, fatigue, hot flashes, and anal prolapse.

1 "Treatise on the Properties of Medicine": "The blood from the turtle head is applied to the prolapse of the anus."

2 "Outline": "Treatment of blood vessels in the wind, crooked mouth and eyes, and malnutrition and fatigue and hot flashes in children." "

3 "Modern Practical Traditional Chinese Medicine": "Raw drink is effective for tuberculosis and hot flashes. "

Attached prescription

1. Treatment of stroke and crooked mouth: turtle. Apply the blood-melted aconite powder on it and remove it when it is normal. ("Behind the Elbow")

2. To treat various types of malnutrition in children: Evodia, Coptidis and Coptidis (file into pieces, soak in turtle blood for one night, stir-fry with Evodia to make it dry and charred, remove Evodia and do not use it), Baiwucaipeng Ren and Bupleurum (remove the reeds) are divided into equal portions. The top is fine powder, dipped in pig bile, steamed cakes and mung bean balls. Take ten pills each time, under hot water, no time. (Tie Xue Jian Wan in "Comprehensive Prescriptions for Pediatric Health")

Each family discussed the "Compendium": "According to the Qian Jin Prescription, the blinking of the eyes, moving lips, and crooked mouth are all caused by wind entering the blood vessels. Take Xiaoxu Ming Decoction in an urgent manner, apply it externally with turtle blood or cockscomb blood and Fulonggan Powder, and apply it again when it dries. It is very effective in treating the symptoms of crooked mouth and prolapse of the anus due to the nature of the turtle blood.

Clinical application in the treatment of bone and joint tuberculosis: Wash the turtle with physiological saline, cut off its unilateral carotid artery aseptically (to avoid damaging the trachea), bleed it into a sterile test tube, separate the serum, and place it in a Store in the refrigerator at 2 to 4°C for later use. When using, use a sterile syringe to draw 2 ml of turtle serum, add 0.5 ml of 0.25% procaine, and 0.1 ml of epinephrine (to prevent serum allergic reactions), and inject it intramuscularly once a day. Keep the patient absolutely quiet before and after the injection. Twelve cases were treated, 10 of which were clinically cured after 5 to 20 treatments; 2 cases were discontinued after effective treatment. Generally, after injecting the serum for more than 3 times, the local swelling and pain will disappear immediately, the fistula will heal, and the limb dysfunction will return to normal or be significantly improved.

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Turtle blood - "Chinese Materia Medica"

Source from "Compendium of Materia Medica"

Pinyin name Biē Xue

English name Soft-shelled Turtle blood

fresh-water turtle blood

Source

Medicinal material source: Turtle family Fresh blood of Chinese soft-shelled turtle or mountain soft-shelled turtle.

Latin plant and animal mineral names: 1. Trionyx sinensis (Wiegmann) 2. Trionyx steindachneri Siebenrock

Harvesting and storage: Take the blood when captured and killed, use it fresh or freeze it.

Original form

1. Chinese soft-shell turtle, the body is oval or nearly oval, and the total length of the adult is about 30-40cm.

The head is pointed, the snout is long, and the snout is formed into a short tube shape; the nostrils are located at the front of the snout, and the edges of the upper and lower jaws are covered with hard horny sheaths. They have no teeth and small eyes; the pupils are round, the tympanic membrane is not obvious, and the neck can be more than 70mm long. There are no granular warts at the base of the neck, and the head and neck can be completely retracted into the nail. The dorsal and ventral carapace has no horny plates but is covered with leathery soft skin, with soft and thick connective tissue on the edge, called the skirt. There are small raised warts on the skin on the back, which are raised in longitudinal rows. The center of the back is slightly convex. There are 8 pairs of laminae, 8 pairs of ribs, no hip plate, and no edge plates connecting the edges. The back bone fragments are not completely ossified, the ribs and rib plates are healed, and their ends protrude beyond the outside of the rib plates. The limbs are relatively flat, with 5 fingers on the forelimbs; the inner three fingers have exposed claws; the claws on the outer two fingers are all wrapped in skin and not exposed. The growth of the toes and claws of the hind limbs is also the same, and the fingers and toes are webbed and developed. The male body is flatter and the tail is longer, with the end exposed at the skirt; the female tail is thick and short, not exposed at the skirt. Cloacal anal orifice longitudinal fissure. The upper part of the head and neck is olive green, the lower part is yellow, there are yellow markings from the chin to the throat, there are black stripes behind and behind the eyes, and there are more than 10 black spots on the top of the head behind the eyes. The back of the body is olive green or dark brown with black spots, the belly is yellow, there are large green spots on the skirts on both sides, and there are two pea-sized green spots near the tail. The upper part of the forelimbs is olive green; the lower part is light yellow, and the upper part of the hind limbs is lighter in color. The middle of the tail is olive green, and the rest is light yellow.

2. The mountain auspicious soft-shell turtle has a nearly round body. When the weight is 9kg, the length and width are up to 36cm×21cm, and the larger ones can reach 20kg. The back of the body is bulging, the skin is rough, and there are fleshy nail-like protrusions of varying sizes on the back, edges, base of the neck, limbs and tail; the nails on the back of the body are larger and denser. The edge of the endoplasmic skirt is very thick. The limbs are thick and the sides are flat. The tail is short, slightly flat conical, wide at the base and pointed at the end. The body is gray-black, dark green, purple-black or black and green. The head and limbs are black or dark green. The ventral surface is black with purple, with dark patches.

Habitat distribution

Ecological environment: 1. Live in lakes, rivers, ponds, reservoirs and other waters.

2. Live in rivers, streams and pools in mountainous areas.

Resource distribution: 1. Except for Xinjiang, Ningxia, Qinghai, Tibet and other places, it is widely distributed throughout the country.

2. Distributed in Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places.

The pharmacological effects were observed using the isotope label incorporation method and it was observed that turtle blood can inhibit the incorporation of H-TdR, 3-H-UP and H-Leu into cancer cells, among which the incorporation into Ehrlich ascites cancer cells The inhibition rates were 96.8%

94.8%

91.9% respectively. When S180 and P338 ascites tumor cells were used as target cells, the results were similar, indicating that turtle serum can strongly inhibit Inhibiting the growth of cancer cells also proves that its anti-cancer activity is not specific. The turtle serum was incubated at 37°C and 50°C for 10 minutes, and then the 3H-TdR incorporation test was carried out. Its anti-cancer activity increased from 88.9% to 4.9%, indicating that heating can reduce its anti-cancer activity, but in Dialysis in physiological saline does not affect its antitumor activity. Turtle serum also had an inhibitory effect on the incorporation of 3H-TdR and 3H-UP into normal mouse bone marrow cells, with the conversion rates of 39.4% and 37.3%. However, the inhibitory effect of turtle serum on cancer cells is much stronger than that on bone marrow cells.

Nature and flavor are sweet; salty; neutral in nature

Return to liver meridian

Function: Nourishing yin and clearing away heat; promoting blood circulation and unblocking meridians. Mainly used for hot flashes due to fatigue; yin deficiency and low fever; hypochondriac pain; slanted mouth and eyes; anal prolapse

Usage and dosage Oral administration: fresh drink, 20-100ml; or take into pills. External use: applied with blood.

Attached Recipe 1. Treat stroke and crooked mouth: apply the powder of Aconitum mixed with turtle blood and remove it if you hold it straight. ("Behind the Elbow") 2. To treat various types of malnutrition in children: Evodia, Coptidis rhizome (file into pieces, soak in turtle blood for one night, stir-fry with Evodia until it becomes charred, remove Wuyu), Baidu catkins, Bupleurum (remove the reeds) ) into equal portions. The top is fine powder, soaked in pig bile, steamed cakes and large mung bean balls. Take ten pills each time, under hot water, no time. (Comprehensive Prescriptions for Pediatric Health, Turtle Blood Jian Wan)

Discussions by various experts

1. "Compendium": According to "Qianjin Prescription", eyes blink, lips move, If the mouth is crooked, it is caused by wind entering the blood vessels. Take Xiao Xuan Ming Decoction immediately. Externally, use turtle blood or cockscomb blood to adjust Fulonggan powder and apply it. When it is dry, apply it again, which is very good. The nature of turtle blood is rapid contraction and bleeding, so it can treat diseases such as crooked mouth and prolapse of the anus.

2. "Treatise on the Properties of Medicine": Blood on the head of a turtle causes prolapse of the anus.

3. "Compendium": Treats wind and blood vessels, oral and eye diseases, and malnutrition and hot flashes in children.

4. "Modern Practical Chinese Medicine": Drinking it raw is effective for tuberculosis and hot flashes.

Clinical application in the treatment of bone and joint tuberculosis. Wash the turtle with physiological saline, cut its unilateral carotid artery aseptically (to avoid damaging the trachea), bleed it into a sterile test tube, separate the serum, and place it in a 2-4g refrigerator for later use. Use a sterile syringe to absorb 2ml of turtle serum, add 0.5ml of 0.25% procaine and 0.1ml of epinephrine (to prevent serum allergic reactions), and inject it intramuscularly once a day. Keep the patient absolutely quiet before and after the injection. Twelve cases were treated, 10 of which were clinically cured after 5-20 treatments; 2 cases were discontinued after effective treatment. Generally, after injecting the serum for more than 3 times, the local swelling and pain will disappear immediately, the fistula will heal, and the limb dysfunction will return to normal or be significantly improved.

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