What does powdered turtle shells do for liver disease?

Liver disease belongs to the category of “bulging” in traditional Chinese medicine. Turtle shell has the effects of nourishing yin and submerging yang, softening and dispersing hard lumps, and reducing heat and removing steam, so it has a certain therapeutic effect on bulging. Turtle shell is the dorsal armor of the soft-shelled turtle, belonging to the family of soft-shelled turtles, and it is used for clearing heat in the medicines for clearing deficiency heat. It enters the kidney meridian and liver meridian. It is salty and cold in nature. It can be used both internally and externally. It can nourish yin and submerge yang, soften hardness and disperse knots, reduce heat and remove steam. It is used in the treatment of internal movement of deficiency wind, menstrual closure, yin deficiency and fever, labor-heat and bone steam, and prolonged malaria and malaria mother. The yin deficiency and yang floating evidence of bulging may manifest as tinnitus, face redness, zygomatic redness (redness of cheeks and zygomatic bones), and turtle shell can nourish yin and submerge yang, so it has a certain therapeutic effect on this evidence. The adverse effects or contraindications of turtle shell are not clear. If needed, please use it under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner.