Decoction of Live Soft-Shelled Turtle

Decoction of Live Soft-Shelled Turtle,The patient initially experienced hemoptysis, which ceased; subsequently, blood oozed from the throat like a thread, accompanied by intermittent pain beneath the ribs, and the patient gradually wasted away.

Formulas Name : Decoction of Live Soft-Shelled Turtle

Chinese Name : 活鳖煎

Drug Formulation

1 live soft-shelled turtle (weighing half a jin; keep it in river water for 5 days; use 5 sheng of children’s urine, 5 sheng of rice wine, and 5 black plums—all crushed; add 1 he of chopped peach and willow twigs; wrap all ingredients in a fresh cotton pouch and simmer over low heat until the turtle dies; at this point, reduce the liquid by half; remove the cotton pouch; remove the turtle’s shell, intestines, and innards; finely chop and grind the meat until smooth; simmer again until the liquid is reduced by about half;transfer to a bowl with a lid. Roast the shell and bones until they turn a dark yellowish-brown, then add the following herbs: ginseng, amber, wood fragrant, bupleurum, trichosanthes fruit, apricot kernels, astragalus, Hengshan, benzoin, aconite, angelica, cinnamon, notopterygium, anemarrhena, poria, and black plum pulp—all in equal parts.

Source

*Ji Feng*, Volume 10.

Processing

Grind the above ingredients into a fine powder. Mix with the softshell turtle shell paste and pound with a pestle 1,000 times to form pills the size of a Paulownia seed.

Benefits

The patient initially experienced hemoptysis, which ceased; subsequently, blood oozed from the throat like a thread, accompanied by intermittent pain beneath the ribs, and the patient gradually wasted away.

Instructions for Use

Take 30 pills per dose, before meals and at bedtime, washed down with warm wine.

Decoction of Live Soft-Shelled Turtle,*Ji Feng*, Volume 10.,The patient initially experienced hemoptysis, which ceased; subsequently, blood oozed from the throat like a thread, accompanied by intermittent pain beneath the ribs, and the patient gradually wasted away.

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