What are the effects and functions of cuttlebone?

Sea cucumber, also known as cuttlefish bone, has a mild nature. You can learn more about its effects and functions. It can treat vomiting blood, spitting blood, bloody stools, and eczema. The effects recorded in different medical books are also different. You should also pay attention to some taboos when using the medicine.

1. The efficacy and function of sea cucumber

Astringent and hemostatic; consolidates essence and stops leukorrhea; reduces acidity and relieves pain; absorbs moisture and heals sores. It is used to treat vomiting blood, hematemesis, metrorrhagia, bloody stool, epistaxis, traumatic bleeding, spermatorrhea due to kidney deficiency, leucorrhea, stomach pain, belching and acid reflux, eczema and ulcers. Used for stomachache, acid regurgitation, vomiting blood, epistaxis, metrorrhagia, bloody stool, spermatorrhea, leucorrhea; ulcer disease. External treatment for bleeding injuries and sores with pus.

① "Ben Jing": It is used to treat female leakage of red and white menstrual fluid, blood stasis, swelling and pain in the vagina, cold and heat syndromes, and infertility.

② "Bie Lu": Shocked air enters the abdomen, causing abdominal pain around the navel, cold swelling in the genitals (also known as swelling and pain in the genitals of men), and also stops sores with excessive pus that does not dry up.

③ "Materia Medica": It can stop women's bleeding and treat deafness.

④ "Tang Materia Medica": Treats cataracts in the eyes.

⑤ "Compendium of Materia Medica for Food Therapy": It is used to treat diarrhea in children and adults. Roast the rhizoma chinensis, peel it, grind it into powder, and take it with porridge.

⑥ "Bencao Shiyi": It is used to treat blood clots in women and kill small insects.

⑦ "Bencao Gangmu" (Bencao Gangmu): Treats hemorrhage.

⑧ "Compendium of Materia Medica": It is used to treat blood deficiency disease in women, liver damage, spitting blood, bleeding, malaria and goiter. Grind into powder and apply it to children's malnutrition, smelly pox, men's genital sores, burns caused by hot water or fire, and bleeding from falls. Burn it and preserve its properties. Use it with egg yolk to apply on children's heavy tongue and goose mouth. Use it with cattail pollen powder to apply on tongue swelling and bleeding. Use it with cinnabar to blow into the nose to treat throat congestion. Use it with musk to blow into the ears to treat pus in the ears and deafness.

⑨ "Essential Medicines and Dosages": Clears meridians and removes cold and dampness.

⑩ "Modern Practical Chinese Medicine": It is an antacid, effective for excessive gastric acid and gastric ulcer.

2. Precautions

People with yin deficiency and excessive heat should not take too much of it; long-term use may easily cause constipation, and it can be used together with appropriate laxatives.

① "Bencao Jing Jizhu": It is incompatible with Bailu and Bletilla striata.

② "Shu Materia Medica": It is incompatible with Aconite.

③ "Bencao Jingxiu" says: Do not use if you have blood disease or local heat.