Alias Shi Sanli, Huan and Wen Jia belong to the family Tortoise, whose Latin scientific name is Eretmochelys imbricata and English name is Hawksbill Turtle.
A big turtle, with a body length of 100cm and a weight of about 50 kg, has 13 crustaceans arranged in shingles, hence the name "Thirteen Scales". The adult carapace is bright yellow brown, smooth and shiny. The tail is short, and the front and rear limbs each have two claws. The head, tail and limbs can be retracted into the shell. The scales on the shell and the top of the head are red, brown and black. The neck, back and limbs are grayish black, and the ventral surface is almost white.
Living in a warm ocean, he is fierce and feeds on fish, crustaceans, mollusks and seaweed. Breeding in summer every year, digging holes on the beach to lay eggs, spawning time is mostly during the day, spawning every time 120 ~ 130. Depending on the temperature of nature, the incubation period is about 49 ~ 60 days.
Tortoise shell can be used to make exquisite decorations. There is a saying in the famous sentence "Peacock flies southeast" in the Han Dynasty: "Step on silk at your feet and shine on your head". Guangdong Province has established Donggang Nature Reserve, which mainly protects turtles such as tortoise shells and green turtles.
In China, it is distributed in the sea area south of Shandong Peninsula.
It belongs to the national second-class protected animals.
Name: tortoise shell
Smell: (1) Sweet, cold and nontoxic.
Indications: 1, pre-detoxification. Grind raw hawksbill and raw rhinoceros horn into juice, mix well and take it at half temperature. Take it three times a day. Take this when acne is prevalent. If the disease does not occur, it will disappear internally, and if the disease has occurred, it will be alleviated.
2, acne black depression (caused by coagulation). Use raw hawksbill and raw rhinoceros horn, grind them together into juice, add a little pig blood and five spoonfuls of purple grass root soup, and take them evenly.
3, eye tears (caused by heart deficiency and kidney heat) with green hawksbill, antelope horn each one or two, a pair of Sek Yin-Tsi, * * * research for the end, each take a money, mint soup. Take it once a day.