Synonymous cuttlebone horseshoe crab bone (Su Wen), squid bone (Ben Jing) and cuttlefish cover (annals of traditional Chinese medicine). Sexual taste and meridian tropism are salty, astringent and warm. Enter spleen and kidney meridians.
Functions and indications: astringing and stopping bleeding, stopping leukorrhagia, relieving pain, eliminating dampness and healing sores. Can be used for treating ulcer, hyperacidity, hematemesis and epistaxis, metrorrhagia and hematochezia, nocturnal emission, leucorrhea with red and white discharge, stomachache and acid regurgitation; External treatment of trauma and bleeding, sores and pus.
Dehumidification, acid production, hemostasis and wound healing. It can be used for treating stomachache, acid regurgitation, vomiting, hematemesis, hematochezia, metrorrhagia, leukorrhagia, amenorrhea due to blood deficiency, abdominal pain, diarrhea due to malaria deficiency, and ulcer due to yin erosion.
Waziran, the name of Chinese medicine. It is the shell of Scapharca subcrenata or Rana chensinensis. In the following spring, it is caught in the solstice, autumn and winter, washed, cooked in boiling water, taken out and dried. Scapharca subcrenata lives at the bottom of sediments in shallow water, especially near the estuary where rivers flow. It is distributed in coastal areas of China, mainly in Yangjiaogou of Shandong Peninsula, Tanggu of Tianjin and Liaohekou of Liaoning. Mud and soft mud, living in shallow soft mud beach. Distribution in China's coastal areas, Shandong, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and other coastal areas have aquaculture. Giant clams live at the bottom of sediments in shallow water. Distributed in Yellow Sea, Bohai Sea, East China Sea and South China Sea. Has the effects of resolving phlegm, removing blood stasis, softening and resolving hard mass, inhibiting acid and relieving pain. Used for cementation of stubborn phlegm, carbuncle, scrofula, abdominal pain and pantothenic acid.