Hai Piao Xiao 海螵蛸, Cuttlebone, Cuttlefish Bone

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Product Description:

• Product Name: Dried Cuttlebone
• Latin Name: Sepiella maindroni de Rochebrune
• Common Name: Cuttlefish Bone
• Chinese Name: Hai Piao Xiao 海螵蛸
• Origin: Guangxi Province,China
• Package: Bag
• Storage: Keep in cool, dry and no light place

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As far as cuttlefish bone, or cuttlebone, is concerned, it plays a variety of different roles in the eyes of people from different backgrounds. From the perspective of a TCM practitioner, it is better known as Hai Piao Xiao, an effective Chinese herb that is commonly used in the treatments of gastritis and nocturnal emission; from the owners of caged birds, budgies, reptiles, and others, it serves as a good supplement that is rich in calcium; from a dentist, it is a wonderful absorbent that is frequently used to stop bleeding after tooth extraction or nose surgery; from Jewelers, it is an amazing mold-making material thanks to its heat-resisting, easy-carving and casting nature. But be that as it may, cuttlebones are still a strange thing to most people in everyday life. That is to say, few people are aware of its impressive medicinal uses. And this is exactly what this article is all about.
What is cuttlefish bone?
From the point of view of Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), the authentic cuttlebone refers to the internal structure from Sepiella maindroni de Rochebrune or Sepia esculenta Hoyle, the species in the family Sepiidae. And it is also commonly known as Sepiae Endoconcha, Endoconcha Sepiae, Os Sepiae seu Sepiellae, Wu Zei Gu, and Sepia esculenta bone. Medicinally it is mainly produced in shallow water of Liaoning, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other coastal provinces.
Bones of Sepiella maindroni de Rochebrune is flat oblong, 9 to 14cm long, 2.5 to 3.5cm wide, about 1.3cm thick, and with thick middle and thin edge. Back side comes with white ridges, slightly reddish sides, and inconspicuous small warts; ventral side is white and with fine wavy horizontal lines from the end to the middle. Horny edge is translucent. Tail is wide flat but with no spicules. It is lightweight, loose, easily broken, and with floured cross section and puff laminated striation. It is slightly fishy in taste and slightly salty in flavor. Bones of Sepia esculenta Hoyle is 13 to 23cm in length, and about 6.5cm in width. Back side has clear warts in slightly layered arrangement; ventral side comes with fine wavy cross-laminated that is accounted for most of the body and longitudinal shallow groove in the middle. Horny edge in the tail becomes wider gradually and tilts to the ventral side. And there is a bone spicule at the end but most of them are broken.
Main chemical compositions are 87.3% to 91.75% calcium carbonate, chitin, and phlegmatic temperament. In addition, it also contains multiple trace elements, including large amounts of calcium, a small amount of sodium, strontium, magnesium, iron, and trace amounts of silicon, aluminum, titanium, manganese, barium, and copper.
Cuttlefish bone benefits
Today cuttlebones are widely used in the treatments of gastric and duodenal ulcer, bleeding and perforation caused by ulcer, asthma, leg ulcers, and bleeding after pulling out a tooth and nasal surgery. So, how to take advantage of the health benefits from cuttlebones? And its pharmacological actions can give some inspirations.
Modern cuttlebone pharmacology
1. It resists peptic ulcer, tumor, and radiation and sets a broken bone;
2. Calcium carbonate contained can neutralize stomach acid, change the pH of the stomach contents, reduce pepsin activity, and promote the healing of ulcers;
3. After chitin contained reacts with organic matter in stomach and gastric juice, it could form a protective layer on the surface of the ulcer and then promote the blood coagulation;
4. Animal experiments showed that cuttlebone could obviously promote bone defect repair;
5. Its extract by edetic acid can inhibit S180 sarcoma and ascites sarcoma;
6. Its water extract by intragastric administration can significantly improve the survival rate of rats received 60Co radiation and serotonin levels in the blood.

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海螵蛸概述(收敛止血 涩精止带)

别名 乌贼骨、墨鱼骨、小海螵蛸、大海螵蛸
为乌贼科动物无针乌贼或金乌贼的内壳，采集在4至8月间，将漂浮在海边或积于海滩上的乌贼骨捞起，剔除杂质，以淡水漂洗后晒干。

海螵蛸各家论述
据《纲目》记载：“乌鲗骨，厥阴血分药也，其味咸而走血也，故血枯、血瘕、经闭、崩带、下痢、疳疾，厥阴本病也；
寒热疟疾、聋、瘿、少腹痛、阴痛，厥阴经病也；目翳、流泪，厥阴窍病也；厥阴属肝，肝主血，故诸血病皆治之。”

海螵蛸性状
【性味】 味咸、涩，性温
【归经】 归脾、肾经
呈扁长椭圆形，中间厚，边缘薄，长9～14cm,宽2.5～3.5cm，厚约1.3cm。背面有磁白色脊状隆起，两侧略显微红色，
有不甚明显的细小疣点；腹面白色，自尾端到中部有细密波状横层纹；角质缘半透明，尾部较宽平，无骨针。
体轻，质松，易折断，断面粉质，显疏松层纹。气微腥，味微咸。

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