Turtle, also known as tortoise or tuanyu, is an oviparous amphibian reptile with a turtle-like head, but its carapace is soft and dark green. Soft-shelled turtles often live in sediments at the bottom of the water, like to eat small animals such as fish and shrimp, and also swallow melon skins, fruit slices, grass and grains. There are traces of soft-shelled turtles in rivers and lakes all over Jiangxi. Among them, Poyang Lake, the largest freshwater lake in China, has the largest quantity and the best quality. 10 years ago, the artificial turtle breeding base was built in Dajiling Reservoir on the outskirts of Nanchang, and the number of turtles has exceeded 1 10,000, making it a promising aquaculture industry.

Soft-shelled turtle is rich in nutrition, containing protein, fat, calcium, iron, animal glue, keratin and various vitamins. It is a rare tonic. Turtle can also be used as medicine, and its back shell has the effects of nourishing yin and strengthening yang, dispersing stagnation and calming the liver, and can treat cough, night sweats, kidney deficiency, amenorrhea and other diseases, while turtle gall can treat hypertension; Eggs can cure chronic diarrhea and dysentery; Supplementing blood can cure malnutrition in children, and there is a folk saying that soft-shelled turtle can cure cancer.

The general population can eat it.

1. Suitable for people with weak constitution, yin deficiency of liver and kidney, bone steaming strain and malnutrition; Suitable for tuberculosis and extrapulmonary tuberculosis with low fever; Suitable for people with chronic hepatitis, ascites due to liver cirrhosis, hepatosplenomegaly, diabetes, nephritis and edema; Suitable for all kinds of cancer patients and after radiotherapy and chemotherapy; Suitable for patients with Sjogren's syndrome; Suitable for patients with hyperlipidemia, arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease and hypertension; Suitable for patients with hypoproteinemia; Suitable for beriberi patients;

2. Soft-shelled turtle is greasy, and long-term stomach injury leads to indigestion, so it is not suitable for people with loss of appetite, decreased digestive function, pregnant women or postpartum deficiency, spleen and stomach weakness, and diarrhea; Loose stool people with chronic enteritis, chronic dysentery and chronic diarrhea should not eat; Eating hepatitis patients will increase the burden on the liver, and when it is serious, it will induce hepatic coma, so it should be eaten less; Eating it by pregnant women will affect fetal health; In addition, people who eat too much phlegm should eat carefully.