The efficacy and function of conch octopus

Many people have seen cuttlebone in life. Cuttlebone is a kind of squid. This plant is generally produced in Fujian, Zhejiang and other regions of my country. It is a particularly good Chinese medicine. If you are accidentally injured when doing activities at the beach, you can use it to stop bleeding. In addition, it can also be eaten as food. The nutritional value of food is also very high. So what are the effects and functions of cuttlebone?

Many people don’t know about cuttlebone. In fact, cuttlebone is a traditional Chinese medicine. Cuttlebone is the dried inner shell of squid. Cuttlebone is mainly produced in Zhejiang, Fujian, Shandong and other places. When sea cucumber is used as medicine, it can astringe and stop bleeding, astringe semen and stop leukorrhea, reduce acidity and relieve pain, and absorb moisture and heal sores. Cuttlebone is also commonly used for vomiting blood, epistaxis, metrorrhagia, bloody stool, spermatorrhea, leucorrhea, stomach pain and acid regurgitation; external treatment of bleeding injuries, eczema, wet sores, and ulcers that do not heal.

Nutritional value of cuttlebone

Cuttlebone originally refers to the egg chamber of mantis. This product is similar in shape to it, so it is called sea cuttlebone. The Illustrated Classic of Materia Medica says: "There is ink in its belly that can be used to protect itself from harm. The Records of the Southern Yue states: It likes crows. It often floats on the water. When crows see it, they think it is dead and peck at it, so they roll it up and eat it in the water. Therefore, it is called squid, which means it is harmed by crows." The Compendium of Materia Medica says: "There is ink that can be used as a rule, so it is called Wuze. The bone is called Cuttlebone, which is a pictograph."

The efficacy and function of sea cucumber

Cuttlebone tastes salty and astringent, and is warm in nature. It enters the liver and kidney meridians. It is light and astringent in texture. It has the effects of astringing and stopping bleeding, consolidating essence and stopping leukorrhea, and controlling acid and astringing sores. It is mainly used to treat vomiting blood, hemoptysis, epistaxis, bloody stool, metrorrhagia, traumatic bleeding, spermatorrhea and stranguria, leukorrhea, bloody and leukorrhea, blood deficiency and amenorrhea, stomach pain and acid reflux, eczema sores, and wind tears and eye opacities.

Cuttlebone recipe

1. It is suitable to be used raw for relieving acidity, relieving pain, absorbing dampness and healing sores; it is suitable to be fried for astringing and stopping bleeding, consolidating semen and stopping leucorrhea.

2. For those who vomit blood or cough up blood, it can be used with raw rhubarb and white radix corydalis to clear away heat and stop bleeding.

3. For those with kidney deficiency, weak sperm gate, spermatorrhea and loose stools, it can be used with Cornus officinalis, Cuscuta australis, Euryale ferox, and Rosa laevigata to enhance the effect of kidney and sperm consolidation.

4. For patients with eczema sores that do not heal for a long time, grind calcined gypsum, calcined dragon bone, alum, phellodendron, indigo, angelica dahurica, etc. into powder and apply it to enhance the effect of heal the sores and promote tissue regeneration.

How to cook sea cucumber

1. Cuttlefish bone stewed with pig skin

Ingredients: 60 grams of pork skin, 15 grams of cuttlefish.

Detailed steps:

Wash the cuttlefish bones and pig skin, cut the pig skin into small pieces, put them in a bowl with the cuttlefish bones, add water, and simmer over low heat until the pig skin is cooked through.

Efficacy: Cuttlefish bones stewed with pig skin can strengthen the spleen, consolidate the body, and stop bleeding. It is suitable for people with weak body and metrorrhagia caused by blood heat.

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2. Chicken stew with cuttlefish bones

Ingredients: 90 grams of chicken, 2 grams of cuttlefish, 1 gram of salt and 1 gram of MSG.

Detailed steps:

1. Wash the chicken, cut into pieces, and crush the cuttlefish bones for later use.

2. Put the chicken and cuttlefish bones in a porcelain pot, add 500 ml of water and an appropriate amount of fine salt, steam it in a steamer, and add MSG when eating.

Efficacy: Chicken stewed with cuttlefish bones can nourish qi and warm the middle, astringe and stop bleeding. It is suitable for symptoms such as spleen deficiency type metrorrhagia, light blood, and sallow complexion.