Description

Pharmaceutical name: Colla Corrii Asini

Latin Zoological name: Equus asinus L.

Common Name: Donkey hide glue

Properties (characteristics) slightly sweet in taste, neutral;

Channels (meridians) entered: kidney, liver, lung

Actions & Indications: chronic diarrhea, purpura, psychasthenia, insomnia, chronic cough (due to TB) , hematemesis, metrorrhagia, and netrostaxis.

E jiao with cattail pollen (pu huang) is usually used for arresting bleeding. Used in anxiety, insomnia, apostaxis, hemoptysis, hematuria, hemafecia, due to yinxu with flushed tongue, thready and rapid pulse. For promotinggrowth of children.

It should be taken on an empty stomach (i.e., at least one hour before or three hours after a meal).

Medical function:

1. Improves red cell count, 2. Corrects hypotension.3. Improve stress resistance of laboratory mice in cold exposure, tiredness, and radiation exposure. Improves muscle weakness due to malnutrition in guinea pigs.

4. Improves calcium absorption of laboratory dogs.5. Improves immune system.

6. Improves conditions of kidney inflammation. 7. Increase blood pressure.

Samples of formulae: Insomnia due to yinxu (yin deficiency) and yang overactive, accompanied with dizziness, headaches, palpitation, lethargy, pale complexion, lack of appetite, dry mouth, sometime urine is dark with dry stool, red tongue, or light pink tongue, lack of moss, pulse is stringy and fast or small and fast, or floating, or slippery. Use huang lian e jiao tang. Take out huang qin. Add long ci, mu li, zao ren, chen pi. Effectiveness of formula: 13 patients; 8 healed; 5 improved.

Chemical ingredients: 化學成份﹕ composed of collagen. Hydrolyzed into amino acids: including 10% of lysine, 7 % of arginine, 2 % of histamine, 1 % of cysteine, tryptophan, hydroxyproline, serine, aspartic acid, threonine, glutamic acid, proline, glycine, alanine, valine, methionine, isoleucine, leucine, tyrosine, and phenylalanine.

Dosage: 5 to 15 grams a day

Cautions: Do not use when there is blood stasis, pixu (stagnation in digestion, weak digestion), external syndrome as in cold or flu.

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This statement has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Unless used under instructions by a licensed herbalist.NOTE: Over the counter products are only intended to treat symptoms of what may be an underlying system imbalance (e.g. yin excess, yang deficiency). For more individual issues, we recommend having a custom formula prescribed by our herbalist, in person or over the phone.