Amyda sinensis- Soft Shelled TurtlePelodiscus sinensis.Amyda sinensis, Trionx sinensis 鳖 甲 Biē jiǎ  Chinese fresh water, soft shelled turtle         
The Chinese softshell turtle is now farmed, especially in China, to support the food industry, and it is the world's economically most important turtle.[3] The shells used for medicine are usually a by-product of food production.[4] This is the most common species raised by Chinese turtle farmers is the Chinese softshell turtle, accounting for over 97% of all reported sales.[5]
Nature - cool     FLAVOR: Salty     CHANNEL: Liver, Kidney, Spleen  
PART USED: Carapace- Turtle back shell    
FUNCTIONS
GROUP: Tonics- Nourishing Yin
1. Nourishing Yin to remove heat.[2] Nourish Yin and suppress the hyperactive Yang.[1]
2. Calming the Liver to relieve convulsion.[2]
3. Softening the hard lumps.[2]
INDICATIONS
1. Reduce deficiency fever.[1] Consumptive fever and hectic fever due to Yin deficiency.[2]
2. Convulsion due to Yin deficiency.[2]
3. Malaria.[2]
4. Mass in the abdomen, amenorrhea, metrorrhagia or metrostaxis.[2] Soften and disperse lumps. Soften up hardness. Disperse coagulation.[1]
5. Infantile convulsion.
INDICATIONS
1. Yin deficiency with hyperactivity of Fire manifested as fever and night sweating; or for the late stage of febrile diseases with consumption of Yin fluid manifested as night fever; or for convulsion of Yin deficiency type. Periodic fever due to Yin deficiency. Night sweat, twitching.
2. Abdominal lumps. Abdominal mass; recently used for hepatosplenomegaly. Swelling and enlargements of Spleen and Liver, suppression of menses.
COMPARISON between Chynemys reevesii- Gui ban- fresh water tortoise shell and Pelodiscus sinensis- Bie jia.  Gui ban better for nourishing and tonifying. It is more greasy, slowing digestion. Bie jia- better to disperse accumulation.
PREPARATIONS:  Decoction- Back shell 10-20 g  decocted first.
10-39 g (decocted first).[2]  9-24 g.[] Decocted or boiled down into soft extract for internal use, or used as an ingredient of boluses, pills or powder.[2]

Meat of Soft shelled turtle   
Nature- neutral   FLAVOR: Sweet   CHANNEL: Liver
FUNCTIONS
GROUP: Tonics- Nourishing Yin
1. Nourishing Yin and cooling the Blood.[2]
2. Restoring the vital energy.[2]
3. Curing the diseases resulting from asthenia of viscera.[2]
INDICATIONS
1. Used to treat consumptive fever due to Yin deficiency, chronic malaria, protracted dysentery, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, leukorrhagia, scrofula, weakness during convalescence, bodily weakness of the aged.[2]
PREPARATIONS: To be decocted in clear soup, steamed, or made into medicated diet.[2]
CONTRAINDICATIONS: Pregnant women or those who manifest the syndrome of deficiency of Yang of the Spleen/Stomach should avoid it.[2]
References
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Constituents
 Turtle back shell: Gelatin, Iodine, Copper, Vit D.