And although Taiwan itself has five species of freshwater turtles, due to the high cost of labor here, medicine dealers import all of their tortoise and freshwater turtle shells from mainland China and the Southeast Asian countries of Indonesia. Burma and Vietnam.
此外，雖然台灣本身有五種淡水龜，由於人工成本高昂與傳統使用習慣，藥商都由大陸與東南亞印尼、緬甸、越南等地進口取自陸龜與淡水龜的龜甲。