Sea powder is the mass of eggs of the blue-spotted sea hare, a marine animal of the Aplysiidae family. It has the effects of clearing heat, nourishing yin, softening hardness, and resolving phlegm. It is commonly used for conditions such as lung dryness with cough, nosebleeds, goiter, and scrofula.
【Functions and Indications of Sea Powder】
Clearing heat, nourishing yin, softening hardness, and resolving phlegm. It treats lung dryness with cough, goiter, and scrofula.
① "Introduction to Medicine": "It treats lung dryness, distention, cough, and asthma. It can lower heat phlegm, dry damp phlegm, soften hard phlegm, and resolve stubborn phlegm."
② "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": "It disperses goiter, and resolves heat toxins."
③ "Ben Cao Cong Xin": "It treats restlessness and heat, nourishes yin."
④ "Gang Mu Shi Yi": "It treats dysentery and phlegm caused by wind."
⑤ "Ben Cao Zai Xin": "It moistens the lungs, nourishes the kidneys, transforms phlegm, and clears heat."
⑥ "Sui Xi Ju Yin Shi Pu": "It clears gallbladder heat, eliminates dampness, transforms stubborn phlegm, resolves goiter, and heals scrofula."
【Usage and Contraindications of Sea Powder】 "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": "It has a cold and slippery nature, so it should not be consumed by people with weak spleen."
【Special Uses of Sea Powder】
It is used to treat malnutrition and poor eyesight: Ingredients include coix seed, dwarf lilyturf tuber (both stir-fried), indigo (extracted in water), sea powder, tribulusterrestris fruit, and the meat of the noble dendrobium. Grind into powder. Take seven slices of sheep liver, mix with three qian of the powder, and steam until cooked. (From "The Book of Living Beings" by Master Cihang)
