Yes. Cuttlefish is dry, sweet and salty, enters the liver and kidney, and has the functions of nourishing liver and kidney and nourishing blood vessels.
It is recorded in "Materia Medica Seeking Truth" that squid "enters the liver to replenish blood, and enters the kidney to nourish water and strengthen ambition." Those who enter the liver refer to their function of enriching blood; Entering the kidney has the function of nourishing yin. Because of its good blood-enriching effect, eating cuttlefish regularly can stop bleeding, regulate menstruation and reduce menstrual flow for women with menstrual disorders due to blood deficiency, such as menorrhagia or premature menstruation. Women with diarrhea, backache, frequent urination, etc., eating more cuttlefish is also beneficial.
As for the ink of cuttlefish, it also contains many beneficial ingredients, which are rich in organic compounds such as protein, fat and sugar. Besides providing nutrition and promoting the secretion of gastric juice, it can also be used for diet therapy. Foreign researchers extracted an anticancer substance from squid ink, which is a complex carbohydrate composed of sugar, protein and lipids. They inoculated 30 mice with cancer cells, and then gave 15 of them complex carbohydrate. Results All the mice who didn't take this substance died, 9 mice who took complex carbohydrate were cured, and the rest of them also extended their life. It is suitable for women to eat all their lives, regardless of menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth and lactation, and has the effects of nourishing blood, dredging menstruation, preventing miscarriage, promoting labor, stopping bleeding and promoting lactation.
According to the experience of folk dietotherapy, two fresh cuttlefish can be taken to treat excessive leucorrhea, washed, and 250g of lean pork sliced and stewed, and seasoned with salt, once a day/kloc-0, 5 days as a course of treatment. To treat hypomenorrhea or amenorrhea, cook with cuttlefish and peach kernel once a day until menstruation increases or menstrual cramps occur. To treat uterine bleeding, take several cuttlefish ink to cook soup. For those who lack milk after delivery, it is advisable to eat the broth cooked by cuttlefish and octopus.
There is a calcareous bone on the back of cuttlefish, commonly known as cuttlefish bone, which is called cuttlebone in medical books. The bone contains calcium carbonate, calcium phosphate colloid, organic matter, sodium chloride, etc., and has the effects of stopping bleeding, arresting stagnation, arresting spermatorrhea, and relieving pain, and is suitable for diseases such as gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer caused by hyperacidity.