Turtle oil

[ source ] from the" compendium of Materia Medica"
[ ] Bi Zh Pinyin name
English name [ ] Soft-shelled Turtle fat, fresh-water turtle fat
[ alias ] turtle, turtle oil cream
[ source ]
Medicine source: Trionychidae animal turtle hill and then turtle fat.
Latin animal mineral name: 1.Trionyx sinensis ( Wiegmann ) 2.Trionyx steindachneri Siebenrock
Harvest and storage: catch kill, laparotomy, take the fat, fresh.
[ ] the original morphology
1 Chinese turtle, body is oval or nearly oval, a body length of approximately 30-40cm. A pointed head, snout length, a sudden kiss was a short tubular; nostril in front on the rostrum, marginal mandibular covered with horny sheath, toothless, small eyes; pupils round table, the tympanic membrane is not obvious, the neck can be up to more than 70mm, the base of neck without granular warts, head, neck can be fully retracted into a. Dorsal plastron without horny plate was with leathery skin, margin with soft thick connective tissue, also known as skirt. A small protuberance back skin warts, into longitudinal ribs, back central slightly raised, 8 pairs of ribs 8 laminae, to, no anal plate, edge of edge plate. Back bone slices not fully bone, rib and rib healing, its distal end projecting rib outside. Limbs than the flat, 5 fingers three fingers forelimbs; medial is exposed outside the claw; two finger claws were wrapped in the skin and is not exposed, hind toe claw growth are the same, with webbed toes, refers to and developed. The male body is flat and long tail, the end is exposed out skirt; female tail short, not exposed skirts. Urogenital Anal Hole crack. Head and neck above the yellow, olive green, with yellow markings in lower jaw to the throat, eyes and black streak behind the eyes, the top 10 spots. Body back olive green or dark brown, with black, abdomen yellowish, with green stripes on both sides of the skirt, near the tail with two round pea green stripes. Forelimb above olive green; beneath the pale yellow color, hind above shallow. The median for the olive green, more than all the pale yellow.
The 2 body of palea steindachneri, suborbicular, when body weight 9kg, length, width of 36cm x 21cm, large weight up to 20kg. Body back uplift, rough skin, body, neck, back edge, limbs and tail are ranging in size from the fleshy protuberance like nails; body rear drum nail more dense. Edge endoplasmic skirt is hypertrophy. Sturdy limbs, laterally compressed. The tail is short, slightly flat conical, base broadly, the distal end tip. Body black, dark green, purple or black violet. The head, limbs and black or dark green. The ventral surface black in color with purple, with darker patches.
[ ] habitat distribution
Ecological environment: 1 living in lakes, rivers, ponds and reservoirs and water.
2 live in mountainous rivers, river, and lake.
Resource distribution: 1 except Xinjiang, Ningxia, Qinghai, Tibet and other places has not been reported, widely distributed in all parts of the country.
2 distributed in Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places.
[ ] sweet and salty taste; flat;
[ ] liver kidney meridian;
[ ] functions of nourishing yin; hair black. The main weak win; early white beard and hair
[ usage]: table, suitable for.
[ ] the discussion
1" Materia Medica": Meng Quan eyelash hair sign can be inverted, pesticides.
2" Modern Practical Traditional Chinese medicine for nourishing and strong medicine:".
Excerpts from" Chinese Materia Medica" [ ]
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