Lumbar protrusion is lumbar intervertebral disc herniation, which is classified as lumbago in Chinese medicine. Wooden turtle seed is used to treat paralysis caused by wind-cold-dampness paralysis, pain, and skin constriction and numbness, etc. It can be paired with Shengchuanwu, Shengcaowu, Safflower, Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong, and Frankincense to make paste; and for the treatment of paralysis due to the wind-cold-dampness invasion and the disadvantageousness of the tendons and bones and joints, it can be paired with Shengcaowu, papaya, Angelica dahurica, and Ferulicaceae.
Wood turtle seed is the dried mature seeds of wood turtle, bitter, slightly sweet, cool, toxic. It belongs to liver meridian, spleen meridian and stomach meridian. It has the efficacy of subduing swelling and dispersing knots, healing sores and attacking toxins. It is used in treating sores, scrofula (mainly refers to cervical lymph node tuberculosis), hemorrhoidal impotence, mammary carbuncle (a suppurative disease caused by redness, swelling and pain in the breasts and poor discharge of milk), ringworm, baldness, etc. It is contraindicated in pregnant women and people with weak bodies.
Pregnant women and weak people are forbidden to take wood turtle seed, should be used under the guidance of a doctor.