Tortoise
Plastron (gui ban)
Plastrum Testudinis
properties:
The
drug is sweet and salty in flavour, cold in nature and
acts on the liver and kidney channels. Sweet in flavour,
moist and cold in nature for clearing heat, and salty for
acting on the kidney, the herb can tonify Yin of the liver
and kidney, suppress hyperactivity of the liver-yang,
clear heat of deficiency type and strengthen muscles and
bones. It is indicated for Yin deficiency of the liver and
kidney, hectic fever due to consumption, hyperactivity of
the liver-yang, osteomalacia due to deficiency of the
kidney, bleeding due to blood heat caused by Yin
deficiency and other syndromes.
Effects: Tonifying
Yin, suppressing Yang hyperactivity, nourishing the
kidney, strengthening bones, arresting bleeding and
normalizing menstruation.
Indications:
1. The herb is often used in
combination with anemarrhena rhizome, phellodendron bark,
prepared rehmannia root and other herbs for tonifying Yin
and clearing fire from the lung, to treat deficiency of
the kidney-yin, fever due to Yin deficiency, night sweat
and hectic fever; with chrysanthemum flower, white peony
root, achyranthes root, oyster shell and other herbs for
calming the liver and suppressing hyperactivity ot the
liver-yang, to treat dizziness and headache due to Yin
deficiency and Yang hyperactivity; and with fresh water
turtle shell, oyster shell, rehmannia root and other herbs
for tonifying Yin, suppressing Yang hyperactivity and
explling pathogenic wind, to treat stirring up of
endopathic wind of deficiency type at the late stage of
febrile disease.
2. To treat hypofunction of the liver and kidney, deficiency
of essence and blood, lassitude of muscles and bones, and
five kinds of retardation in children, the herb is often
used in combination with tiger bone, achyranthes root,
Chinese cynomorium and other herbs for tonifying the
kidney and strengthening bones.
3. To treat blood-heat due to Ying deficiency with symptoms
of profuse menstruation or unceasing metrorrhagia and
matrostaxis, the herb is often used in combination with
scutellaria root, phellodenrdron bark, white peony and
other herbs.
Dosage
and Administration: 10-30g Decocted first.
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