The proper way to use cuttlebone powder is to take it internally by decoction and externally by applying it directly to the affected area.
Cuttlebone powder is made from the powdered cuttlebone. Cuttlebone is the dried inner shell of the squid family animal needleless squid or golden squid, white color is preferred. It is salty and astringent in flavor, warm in nature, and belongs to the spleen and kidney meridians.
It can stop bleeding by astringency (using drugs with astringent effect to treat bleeding conditions), and can treat vomiting blood, blood in stool and bleeding from trauma. It can also warm astringency and astringency, fixing essence and stopping the band, used for the treatment of spermatorrhea caused by the loss of kidney retention, spermatorrhea, or kidney deficiency caused by the lack of solidity of the band veins, such as thinning of the band under the syndrome.
This taste is salty and astringent, can control acid and relieve pain (inhibit stomach acid, reduce pain), good at treating excessive stomach acid, stomach pain and swallowing acid (stomach upward oral pharyngeal acid swallowed), and so on. It can also collect dampness and astringent sores (reduce the invasion of dampness and promote the healing of sores), and is used to treat eczema, wet sores, or ulcers that do not astringe.
Chinese medicines should be standardized and applied under the guidance of a professional Chinese medicine practitioner’s accurate identification, and should not be taken on one’s own to avoid adverse consequences.