Cuttlebone

Cuttlebone

(Ben Jing)

[synonyms] tick Octopus (Erya), mulberry Octopus (Wupu materia medica), maojiao, cuttlebone (Guangya), Zhishen, Mantis (bielu), sangshang Mantis nest (treatise on general diseases of typhoid fever), lainiao Lang (materia medica Biandu), daolangzi (Hebei medicinal materials), mantis egg, urine chirp (Shandong traditional Chinese Medicine), liuniao dog (records of traditional Chinese Medicine), houerbao (records of Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine), mantis Mantis shell (records of Jiangsu medicinal materials).

[source] it is the egg sheaths of the mantidae, such as the big knife mantis, the small knife mantis, the thin winged mantis, the giant axe Mantis or the North China Mantis. For animal morphology, please refer to "mantis".

[collection] it can be harvested from late autumn to the next spring. After harvesting, remove the branches, steam them in a steamer for 30-40 minutes, kill the eggs, and dry them in the sun or in the oven.

[medicinal materials] can be divided into three types according to their shapes

① Cuttlebone

Also known as soft cuttlebone, Yuan cuttlebone. It is slightly cylindrical or quasi circular, 2.5-4 cm in length and 2-3 cm in width. It is composed of many membranous thin layers. Its surface is light yellowish brown or yellowish brown, and there are not obvious uplift zones on it. Its bottom is flat or there are concave grooves formed by adhering to the plant stem. It is light, loose and tough. There are many radially arranged chambers in the section. Each chamber has a small oval egg, which is yellowish brown and glossy. The gas is slightly fishy and the taste is slightly salty.

It is mainly produced in Guangxi, Yunnan, Hubei, Hunan, Hebei and Liaoning. In addition, it is also produced in Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu, Inner Mongolia, Sichuan and other places.

② Cuttlebone

Also known as hard cuttlebone. It is slightly elongated, 2.5-5 cm long and about 1 cm thick. One end is short and the other end is thin and long. The surface is grayish yellow with oblique texture. The upper part is convex, with a strip of uplift. There is a shallow groove on both sides of the uplift, which is brown or grayish brown. The bottom surface is flat or concave, and sometimes the bark is attached to the bottom. It's tough and crisp.

It is mainly produced in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Shandong, Hubei and other places.

③ Cuttlebone

It is slightly parallelogram, 2-3.5cm long, 1-1.5cm wide and 1-1.5cm thick. The surface is brown, with oblique texture. It is convex above and has banded uplift. It is slightly upward near the tail end and is tough and tough.

Mainly produced in Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi and other places.

It is better to be dry, complete, without larva, yellow color, light weight and tenacity, without branches, grass stalks and other impurities.

[chemical composition] it contains protein and fat. The protein membrane attached to the oocyst contains calcium citrate (six molecule crystal water) crystals. Yolk globule contains glycoprotein and lipoprotein.

[processing] stir fry cuttlebone: stir fry cuttlebone and bran together until yellow, remove bran, and cool. Stir fry cuttlebone with salt: remove cuttlebone, mix well with salt water, stir fry until yellowish, take out and dry. (each cuttlebone is 10 jin, dissolve with 5 liang of salt and appropriate amount of water)

① Lei Gong's treatise on frying: "collect, remove the nucleus, soak it in boiling water for seven times, make the water boil all over, boil it in a magnetic pot, and make it dry. Don't do other things, but it's ineffective. "

② Bielu: "when the cuttlebone is heated, it will make people feel relieved. "

③ Shu materia medica: "the book of pictures says: soak it in hot water for one volt, bake it, and make it yellow in willow ash. "

[flavor] salty and sweet, flat.

① Ben Jing: "it tastes salty and flat. "

② Wupu materia medica: "Shennong: salty, nontoxic. "

③ "Don't be poisonous. "

[Guijing] into the liver and kidney channels.

① Compendium: "liver, kidney. "

② "Into the foot Shaoyin, Taiyang Jing". "

[function indications] tonifying kidney and strengthening essence. Treatment of spermatorrhea, turbidity, frequent urination, enuresis, red leucorrhea, impotence, premature ejaculation.

① "Ben Jing": "in the main injury, hernia, Yin flaccidity, benefit essence and give birth to children. Female blood closed lumbago, pass five Lin, diuretic waterway. "

② "Bielu": "the treatment of man's deficiency, five accumulation of Qi, loss of essence in sleep, drowning.". "

③ "Theory of medicinal properties": "the main man's kidney failure, leakage of essence, essence from, suffering from deficiency cold can stop it. Stop small convenience, artillery make hot, hollow food. Empty but small, convenient, add and use it. "

④ "Ben Cao Yan Yi": "it can cure white and turbid urine. "

⑤ "Yucatalpa medicine solution": treatment of turbid belt, ear pain, throat obstruction, hernia, bone jam. "

[usage and dosage] oral administration: decoction, 1.5-3 yuan; or into pills, powder.

[should not] the patients with Yin deficiency and excessive fire or bladder heat should be taken with caution.

① "To get the dragon bone to treat ejaculation" is one of the key points in the book of Materia Medica. Fear of Convolvulus. "

② "On medicinal properties": "fear of Dai Shen. "

③ According to the classic of Materia Medica, "if you lose essence and drown, you should use it less. "

④ According to Fengyuan of Ben Jing, "Yin deficiency is often misused by people, but it helps Yang deficiency, causing red stem pain and losing essence in the process of strengthening. "

[selected formula] 1. Treatment of white and turbid spermatorrhea and night sweat: cuttlebone (fried), white keel, etc. It's fine. Take two yuan for each, and send it down with salt soup. (waitai)

② Soothe the soul, calm the mind, cure amnesia, urinate, tonify the heart: cuttlebone, Polygala, Acorus calamus, dragon bone, ginseng, Poria, angelica, tortoise shell (vinegar) each one or two. It's the end. Night lie, ginseng soup adjust two money. (Mulberry cuttlebone powder in Ben Cao Yan Jiu)

③ The number of urine in treatment of pregnancy: 12 cuttlebone. Smash it into powder. Divided into two services, rice drink. (Chan Shu Fang)

④ Treatment of dysuria and cellular transformation: Mulberry cuttlebone rammed powder, rice drink, square inch dagger, three days. (Chan Shu Fang)

⑤ Treatment of postpartum enuresis or urine: cuttlebone (fried) half two, keel one or two. It's the end. Two yuan per meter. (Xu's formula for fetal production)

⑥ Treatment of male and female hernia pain: cuttlebone or two, fennel twelve money. The total is the end. Two yuan per serving, mixed with pepper soup. (Ben Cao Hui Yan)

⑦ Treatment of throat bone sticking: cuttlebone, vinegar fried sip it. (good recipe for experience)

⑧ Zhidi ear: a cuttlebone. Slow fire and eight cooked, storage, fine research, into the word musk, for the end, mixed in the ear, each with half a word. If there is pus, first use the sponge bag to pick up, then add the medicine powder, into the ear. (empirical formula)

⑨ Treatment of soft boils in children: the cuttlebone furnace, the end of the research, the application of oil. (Shi Yi De Xiao Fang)

[clinical application] treatment of enuresis

Take 1.5 liang of cuttlebone and 1.5 liang of Yizhiren (for children aged 5-12), decoct them in water and take one dose daily. 11 cases were treated by trial. Generally, 3-4 doses were effective, and 2-3 doses were effective.

According to Ben Jing Feng Yuan, a famous scholar's treatise, "cuttlebone is the key medicine of liver and kidney. It is often used for men's deficiency, kidney deficiency, impotence, sperm loss in dreams and white turbidity. "Ben Jing" also said that five Lin Tong, Li urine channel, cover take to discharge Jiao Xu Zhi also. "

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