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[gui ban] Plasturm Testudinis The plastron of fresh-water tortoise, Chinemys reevesii (Gray) (family Testudinidae). 1. to replenish the vital essence and to check the exuberance of the vital function of the liver, and to nourish the kidney for th etreatment of vertigo, chromic tidal fever, night sweat, drymouth, and throat, aching back and knees with asthenia, osteomalacia and rickets.

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