（一）火上炙，令沸。去壳食之，甚美。令人细润肌肤，美颜色。〔心·嘉〕
（二）又，药家比来取左顾者，若食之，即不拣左右也。可长服之。海族之中，惟此物
最贵。北人不识，不能表其味尔。〔嘉〕
（一）味酸。主除温瘴气，风痹，身肿， 折。又，骨带入山林中，令人不迷路。其食
之法，一如鳖法也。其中黑色者，常啖蛇，不中食之。其壳亦不堪用。〔证〕
（二）其甲∶能主女人漏下赤白、崩中，小儿囟不合，破症瘕、 疟，疗五痔，阴蚀，
湿
痹，女子阴隐疮及骨节中寒热，煮汁浴渍之良。〔证〕
（三）又，已前都用水中龟，不用啖蛇龟。五月五日取头干末服之，亦令人长远入山不
迷。〔证〕
（四）又方，卜师处钻了者，涂酥炙，细罗，酒下二钱，疗风疾。〔证〕
润五脏，治消渴，开关节。服丹石人食之，使人免有疮肿及热毒所生也。〔证〕
（一）下大小便壅塞气。〔嘉〕
（二）又，作 ，与香港脚风气人食之，效。〔嘉〕
（三）又，以大者洗去泥，开肚，以胡椒末半两，切大蒜三两颗，内鱼腹中缝合，并和
小豆一升煮之。临熟下萝卜三五颗如指大，切葱一握，煮熟。空腹食之，并豆等强饱，尽食
之。至夜即泄气无限，三五日更一顿。下一切恶气。〔嘉〕
（四）又，十二月作酱，良也。〔嘉〕
(1) Roast over fire until boiling. Remove the shell and eat; it is very delicious. It makes the skin fine and moist, and enhances the complexion. [Xin · Jia]
(2) Furthermore, medical practitioners have recently preferred to select left-facing oysters (oysters with the shell opening to the left). If consumed, there is no need to distinguish between left and right. It can be taken for a long time. Among marine creatures, this one is the most precious. People in the North do not understand it and cannot appreciate its flavor. [Jia]
(1) The taste is sour. It mainly treats warm miasma qi (pathogenic heat and dampness), wind-bi (wind-damp obstruction syndrome), body swelling, and fractures. Additionally, carrying bone amulets into mountain forests prevents getting lost. Its method of consumption is exactly like that of soft-shelled turtles. The black-colored variety often eats snakes and is not suitable for consumption. Its shell is also unusable. [Zheng]
(2) Its carapace: Mainly treats women’s leukorrhea with red and white discharge, metrorrhagia (sudden heavy uterine bleeding), fontanelles failing to close in infants, breaking up mass accumulations (zheng jia), malaria, treating five types of hemorrhoids, genital erosion, damp-bi, women’s hidden sores in the yin region, and cold-heat sensations in joints. Boiling the juice for bathing and soaking is beneficial. [Zheng]
(3) Furthermore, previously, only water turtles were used, not snake-eating turtles. Taking the dried powder of the turtle head on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month also allows people to enter mountains for long periods without getting lost. [Zheng]
(4) Another prescription: Obtain a turtle shell already drilled by a diviner, coat with clarified butter, roast, sift finely, and take two qian with wine to treat wind diseases. [Zheng]
Moistens the five zang organs, treats xiao ke (wasting-thirst syndrome), opens the joints. Consuming it helps those taking Dan Shi (cinnabar and other mineral drugs) avoid sores, swelling, and heat-toxin generated conditions. [Zheng]
(1) Relieves qi stagnation causing constipation or urinary retention. [Jia]
(2) Furthermore, prepared as a soup/congee, it is effective when eaten by patients suffering from Hong Kong foot wind qi (Beriberi/foot Qi disease). [Jia]
(3) Another method: Take a large snakehead fish, wash off the mud, open the belly, insert half a liang of pepper powder and three or two cloves of chopped garlic into the abdominal cavity, sew it up, and boil it together with one sheng of adzuki beans. When nearly cooked, add three to five radishes the size of fingers and a handful of chopped scallions, and cook thoroughly. Eat on an empty stomach, consuming the beans and other ingredients until full. By night, it will expel unlimited amounts of turbid qi. Repeat once every three to five days. It expels all kinds of evil qi. [Jia]
(4) Furthermore, making sauce in the twelfth month is good. [Jia]