This product is the inner shell of the needleless squid (Sepiella maindronide Rochebrune) or the golden squid (Sepia esculenta Hoyle) of the family Sepia. Produced in Liaoning, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other coastal provinces. Collect the bony inner shell, wash and dry. For raw use.

[Property]

salty and astrigent, slightly warm. act on liver and kidney channels.

[Efficacy]

It can strengthen essence and stop bandages, astringe and stop bleeding, reduce acidity and relieve pain, and reduce dampness and sores.

[Indications]

1. For seminal emission, leukorrhea. cuttlebone is warm and astringent, has the effect of consolidating essence and stopping vaginal discharge. To treat kidney deficiency seminal emission, it is often used with Asiatic Cornelian Cherry Fruit, Dodder Seed, Flatstem Milkvetch Seed to tonify the kidney to constrain seminal emission; to treat red leucorrhea in women, it can be used together with Dahurian Angelica and Carbonized Human Hair.
2. Used for metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, hematemesis, bloody stool and traumatic bleeding. This product can astringe and stop bleeding. To treat metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, it is often used with India Madder Root, carbonized windmill-palm petiole, Chinese Gall, such as Thoroughfare-Securing Decoction; for the treatment of hematemesis and bloody stool, it is often used together with common bletilla pseudobulb to enhance its ability to astringe and stop bleeding; it can be used alone to treat traumatic bleeding. Grind into powder and apply externally.
3. For stomachache acid regurgitation. This product has good antacid and analgesic effects. Often used with Corydalis Tuber, common bletilla pseudobulb, Fritillaria Bulb Clam Shell.
4. Used for eczema, eczema, ulcer, etc. This product can be used externally to reduce moisture and sores. To treat eczema and eczema, mix Phelloendron Bark, Indigo, and forged Gypsum into powder for external application; treat ulcer with excessive pus and long-lasting pus. , can be ground into powder alone for external application, or mixed with calcined Gypsum, dried alum, borneol, etc., grind into fine powder and spread on the affected area.

[Documentation]

1. Benjing: "The main woman is Chibai fistula disease, menstrual juice, blood clots, pudendal sore swelling and pain, Hanre abdominal mass, no children."
2. Bielu: "Stops sores with abundant pus and pus but does not dry up."
3. Bencao Gangmu: "Prescribes blood blight in women; hurts the liver, spitting blood, and bleeding; Treat malaria and eliminate galls. Use the powder to apply on children with malnutrition, smallpox, pudendal sore, burns caused by soup, bleeding from falls... Same as egg yolk, apply on children's carcinoma of tongue, thrush; use the same as Typha to apply on swollen tongue and bleeding like a spring. ; Same as Sophora Flower for nose blowing to stop epistaxis; ... Same as musk for ear blowing to treat pus and deadness in the ears. ”

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product mainly contains 80% to 85% calcium carbonate, and also contains cutin, mucus and a small amount of sodium chloride, calcium phosphate, magnesium salt, etc. The calcium carbonate and calcium phosphate contained in cuttlebone can neutralize hydrochloric acid, so it can prevent excessive gastric acidity.