Fresh Water Turtle
Shell (bie jia)
Carapax Trionycis
Properties:
The drug is salty in flavour, slightly cold in nature and
acts on the liver and kidney channels. Salty and cold for
tonifying the kidney-yin, suppressing hyperactivity of he
liver：Cyang and clearing heat of deficiency type, the
drug is often used in combination with tortoise plastron
for mutual reinforcement to treat Yin deficiency and Yang
hyperactivity, stirring-up of endopathic wind of
deficiency type, hectic fever due to consumption, and
other syndromes, However, fresh water turtle shell has a
strong effect of clearing heat and can resolve the hard
lumps. Therefore, it should be mainly used to treat fever
due to Ying deficiency. In addition, the drug is often
used to treat mass in the abdomen.
Effecs: Tonifying
Yin, suppressing Yang hyperactivity and resolving mass in
the abdomen..
Indications:
1.The drug can be
used in combination with wolfberry bark, large-leaf
gentian root, sweet wormwood, tortoise plastron and other
drugs for tonifying Yin and clearing heat, to treat night
sweat and hectic fever due to Yin deficiency of the liver
and kidney; and with dried rehmannia root, donkey-hide
gelatin, oyster shell and other drugs for tonifying Yin
and expelling pathogenic wind, such as Erjia Fumai
Decoction, to treat stirring-up of endopathic wind of
deficiency type at the late stage of febrile disease.
2.to treat
women¡¯s blood stasis, amenorrhea and mass in the
abdomen, it is often used in combination with rhubarb,
Eupolyphage esu Steleophage, Peach kernel and other herbs
for removing blood stasis and promoting tissue
regeneration, such as Biejia Jian Pill.
Dosage and
Administration: 10-30g.
