Are oysters oysters?

The claim that oysters are oysters is unscientific. Oysters belong to food, consuming the meat part, while oysters belong to traditional Chinese medicine, using the shells of oysters, and the two should not be confused.
Oyster is a traditional Chinese medicine with salty flavor and slightly cold nature, which belongs to liver, gallbladder and kidney meridians. This product is the shell of oyster family, with the efficacy of tranquilizing the mind, submerging yang and tonifying yin, softening and dispersing hard lumps, used in the treatment of palpitations and insomnia, dizziness and tinnitus, scrofula and phlegm, purpura and lumps in the abdomen, and other diseases.
Calcined, it is used for astringent and astringent effects, acid control and pain relief. It is used in the treatment of spontaneous sweating and night sweating, spermatorrhea, spermatorrhea, leucorrhea, stomach pain and acid swallowing.
Adverse effects of oyster are not clear, forbidden to combine with ephedra, Wu Zhu, Xin Yi, allergic to oyster should not be taken, cold spleen and stomach, kidney yang deficiency can not be a large number of prolonged service. This product is easy to cause constipation and indigestion if taken for a long time.
When using medication, you need to be guided by a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner to identify the evidence and use the medication, do not use the medication arbitrarily, so as to avoid adverse consequences.