The general recommendation is to melt the glue to take, can improve the absorption rate of the drug, but also improve its effect of nourishing yin, blood, but should avoid overdose.
Tortoise shell glue is the turtle’s belly, back boiled made of glue, direct consumption is easy because of its hard texture, resulting in the spleen and stomach can not be transported and absorbed, resulting in a waste of medication, clinical use is generally recommended to melting to serve, that is, heating water melting, with the medicinal solution to be taken.
Heating water is to prevent the temperature is too high, resulting in gelatin denaturation, to pay is to dilute the turtle shell glue, increase the probability of its absorption, but also to promote its and other drugs with each other, to improve their own nourishing yin, tonifying the effect of blood.
The gelatin is more nourishing, may damage the function of the spleen and stomach, should be taken under the guidance of a doctor, at the same time, the spleen and stomach weak people should avoid taking, pregnant women should also avoid using.