Drug name: Marigold.

Synonyms include jellyfish bone ("Suwen"), cuttlefish bone ("Ben Jing"), and cuttlefish cover ("Chronicles of Traditional Chinese Medicine"). [1]

English name ENDOCONCHASEPIAE

Nature, flavor and meridians are salty, astringent and warm. Returns to the spleen and kidney meridians. [2]

[3] Functions and indications: astringent and hemostasis, astringent and leucorrhea, antacid, and sore astringent. It is used for ulcer disease, hyperacidity in the stomach, vomiting blood and epistaxis, metrorrhagia and bloody stools, spermatorrhea and vaginal discharge, redness and vaginal discharge, stomach pain and acid swallowing; external treatment of bleeding injuries and sores with pus.

Dehumidification, antacid, hemostasis, and sore healing. It can be used to treat stomach pain, acid swallowing, vomiting, epistaxis, vomiting blood, blood in the stool, metrorrhagia, vaginal discharge, blood dryness, amenorrhea, abdominal pain and constipation, malaria, dysentery, vaginal erosion and sores.

Source: This product is the dried inner shell of the needleless squid Sepiella maindronide Rochebrune or the golden squid Sepiaesculenta Hoyle, a member of the family Sepia.

Collect the inner shells peeled off from the black catfish; or from April to August, catch the inner shells of black catfish floating on the seaside, rinse them and dry them in the sun.

Preparation method: Remove impurities, wash, dry and smash into small pieces. This product is mostly irregular or square-like pieces, off-white or slightly yellow, and has a light taste.

Prepared jellyfish: Brush clean, dry, and smash into small pieces. Fried jellyfish: Stir-fry the jellyfish pieces over slow fire until they turn yellow. Forged sea octopuses: Place the sea octopus in a jar, roast until it becomes burnt black, take it out and let it cool.

Basic source of medicinal materials: This product is the inner shell of various cuttlefish such as needleless cuttlefish, golden cuttlefish, cuttlefish, white-spotted cuttlefish, tiger-spotted cuttlefish, and cuttlefish of the family Sepia.

Preparations: extract powder, granules.

Chemical composition:

1. Cuttlefish bones contain more than 85% calcium carbonate. In addition, the inner shell contains 17 kinds of amino acids such as methionine, aspartic acid, and glutamic acid.

2. Contains 80% to 85% calcium carbonate, 6% to 7% cutin, 10% to 15% mucus, and a small amount of sodium chloride, calcium phosphate, magnesium salt, etc.

Functions and Indications: Converging and stopping bleeding, consolidating essence and stopping bandages, producing antacid and relieving pain, reducing dampness and sores. Indications: Hematemesis, hematemesis, metrorrhagia, hematochezia, epistaxis, trauma and bleeding; spermatorrhea due to weak kidney qi, red and white vaginal discharge; noisy stomachache, belching and pantothenic acid; eczema and ulcers.

You can buy it at a Chinese medicine store