Sang cuttlebone - Pinyin

[sāng piāo xiāo]

Explanation:

The egg sheaths of animals of the mantis family that are adorned on mulberry branches. It can be used as a traditional Chinese medicine to treat spermatorrhea, premature ejaculation, and urination.

Example sentence:

Also, Gorgon fruit, cuttlebone, and mulberry cuttlebone have a consolidating effect.

Cuttlebone, Chinese medicine. For the mantis family insects Tenodera sinensisi Saussure, small knife mantis Statilia maculata (Thurlberg) or giant axe mantis Hierodula patellifera (Servi11e) dry egg sheath.

The above three kinds of habitually known as "group cuttlebone", "long cuttlebone" and "black cuttlebone". It has the efficacy of fixing essence and shrinking urine, tonifying the kidney and helping the yang. It is often used for spermatorrhea, dysuria, frequent urination, and white urine.

Traits:

Cuttlebone: slightly cylindrical or semicircular, composed of several layers of membranous sheet stacked, 2.5-4cm long, 2-3cm wide, with a light yellow-brown surface, the upper banded elevation is inconspicuous, and the bottom surface is flat or with grooves. Body light, loose and tough, cross-section visible outer layer of spongy, the inner layer of many radial arrangement of small chambers, the interior of the room each has a small oval daw, dark brown, glossy. Gas slightly fishy, taste light or slightly salty.

Long cuttlebone: slightly elongated, thin at one end, 2.5-5cm long, 1-1.5cm wide, grayish-yellow surface, with obvious banded elevation above, and a dark brown shallow groove and oblique texture on each side of the band. The texture is hard and brittle.

Black cuttlebone: slightly parallelogram-shaped, 2-4cm long, 1.5-2cm wide, with a grayish-brown surface, obvious banded elevations on the top, oblique textures on each side, and a slight upward curvature near the tail end. The texture is hard and tough.