What are the uses of cuttlefish bones to the human body?

Cuttlefish has many benefits for the human body. Women can eat cuttlefish to replenish blood, and men can eat cuttlefish to improve kidney deficiency. The bones of cuttlefish are cuttlefish bones. The shell of cuttlefish bones feels very hard and can be crushed into powder. Cuttlefish can be made into various delicacies. When cooking cuttlefish, the cuttlefish bones must be removed and used as medicinal materials. Cuttlefish bones cannot be eaten. What are the uses of cuttlefish bones to the human body? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. What is cuttlefish bone?

Cuttlefish bones are the bones of cuttlefish. The outer shell feels hard, but the inside can be easily crushed into powder. Anyone who has processed cuttlefish at home may be curious about cuttlefish bones, right? Cuttlefish bone is a good hemostatic medicine. Children are prone to hurting their arms and legs when playing. In addition to using hemostatic patches to stop bleeding correctly, you can also sprinkle cuttlefish bone powder on the wound.

Cuttlefish bones contain calcium carbonate, and the inner shell contains 17 kinds of amino acids, including aspartic acid, glutamic acid, etc., so it has quite rich benefits. In fact, cuttlefish bone powder is sold in pharmacies, but it is not called cuttlefish bone, but cuttlebone.

2. The efficacy of cuttlefish bones

1. Antacid and analgesic effect: The calcium carbonate contained in cuttlefish bones can neutralize stomach acid, relieve acid vomiting and heartburn symptoms, promote the absorption of ulcer surface inflammation, stop bleeding, and relieve local pain. Therefore, it can be used as an antacid. Experiments show that its compound preparation Wubesan has a significant effect of absorbing pepsin and neutralizing gastric acid, which can reduce the irritation of gastric acid to the gastric ulcer surface, and also reduce the digestive effect of protease on the ulcer surface, and can accelerate the healing of gastric ulcers in mice. In addition to its local effect of antagonizing gastric acid, Wubeisan seems to have a systemic effect similar to anticholeretic nerve drugs in inhibiting gastric acid secretion. Compared with several other commonly used antacids, its in vivo effect is greater than other drugs and its effect is long-lasting. In in vitro tests, its antacid effect is lower than that of magnesium oxide, magnesium milk, and calcium magnesium tablets, but greater than aluminum hydroxide gel.

2. Hemostatic effect. The colloid, organic matter and gastric juice it contains can form a protective film on the ulcer surface, causing the bleeding to coagulate, thus having a hemostatic effect. Cuttlefish bone powder sponge can be used as a local hemostatic agent.

3. Bone setting effect. Aged cuttlebone, fresh cuttlebone and autologous bone were implanted into artificial rabbit bone defects. The results showed that cuttlebone had a significant effect on promoting bone defect repair, especially aged cuttlebone, which had a bone-setting effect.

4. Other functions. Cuttlebone decoction was gavaged into rats and mice, and then irradiated with Co60, which significantly improved the survival rate of the animals. Cuttlebone also showed a beneficial effect on the content of 5-hydroxytryptamine in the blood, but had no significant improvement on the number of platelets and the content of bone marrow DNA.

3. Can cuttlefish bones be eaten?

Since cuttlefish bones have so many benefits, can we eat them directly? As mentioned above, cuttlefish bones are relatively hard, so they are generally not edible. In fact, when cooking cuttlefish at home, the cuttlefish bones are usually removed, although they have certain medicinal value.