In traditional Chinese pharmacies, turtle shell is mixed with hemlock parsley, Sichuan lovage root and human hair in "Buddha's hand soup," a common prescription said to help ease childbirth. Sometimes claims are even made that turtle shell can cure infertility in women.
在中藥店裡，龜板調配川芎、當歸、頭髮的處方「佛手湯」，有助產婦順產，也是常被購買的藥方；民間甚至傳說龜板膠可以治不孕症。