Pinyin Name: Bie Jia
English Name: Turtle Shell, raw
Properties: salty, cold
Channels Entered: Liver

• Liver wind manifesting as tremors, dizziness, tinnitus, headaches, flushed face, red eyes, short temper, muscle spasms, convulsions and in severe cases stroke and paralysis

• Yin deficient heat with feelings of heat during the night and cold during the day, low grade fever in the absence of perspiration, red tongue, scanty coating and a thready rapid pulse
• Steaming bones sensations, nighttime fever and night sweats, weight loss, cough and fatigue
• Severe steaming cones sensations
• Tuberculosis with chronic consumptive dry cough, blood streaked sputum
  

• Amenorrhea or masses from blood stagnation
  

• Abdominal masses from malaria
• Chronic malarial disorders
• Warm malarial disorders
  

• Bie Jia benefits enlargement of internal organs such as the liver, spleen and thyroid
• Hepatomelogy or splenomegaly
• Goiter
• Intestinal abscesses and abdominal pain
  

• Bie Jia is contraindicated during pregnancy due to its dissipating and dispersing actions
• For Spleen-deficient individuals with loose stools or diarrhea or for those who have not recovered from an exterior disorder.
• ,Occasionally unassociated with allergic response