Cornus officinalis can be decocted and taken internally or used in pills or powder; tortoise shell can be decocted and taken internally or boiled in paste, used in pills or powder, or burned, ground and then used externally.
Cornus officinalis has the efficacy of tonifying the liver and kidney, astringent and solidifying astringency (astringent consolidation), and is suitable for the treatment of dizziness and tinnitus, frequent urination, spermatorrhea, lumbar and knee soreness and weakness, excessive menstruation, profuse sweating, impotence, disintegration (excessive menstruation or more than a drip), and weakness and desire to get rid of a variety of illnesses. It should be contraindicated in those who have dampness-heat, fire in the vital organs, and urinary dripping.
Tortoise Shell has the effects of nourishing yin and submerging yang (suppressing too much rising yang by replenishing yin fluid), benefiting the kidneys and bones, nourishing blood and tonifying the heart, fixing menstruation and stopping metrorrhagia. It can be used for treating yin deficiency with internal heat, night sweating with bone vapor (sweating abnormally after falling asleep, but stopping after waking up), late stage of febrile illness with low fever, dizziness of liver yang, internal movement of wind, coughing and coughing up blood, epistaxis and coughing up blood.
Tortoise shell can also be used in the treatment of impotence and weakness of muscles and bones, fontanel incompatibility, palpitation of heart deficiency, insomnia and forgetfulness, leakage of menstruation, leucorrhea (abnormal leucorrhoea with blood or blood clots), carbuncle and gangrene (a kind of venomous sores, which occur in the surface of the body, the limbs, and the internal organs of the acute suppurative disease), swelling and poisoning. It should be contraindicated in pregnant women and those with cold dampness in the stomach.
Cornus officinalis can be decocted and taken internally; it can also be used in pills and powder. Tortoise shell can be decocted and taken internally, or boiled into paste or into pills or powder; tortoise shell can also be burned, ground and mixed or oil dressing for external use. Specific medication should be carried out under the guidance of specialists, and should not be used without authorization.