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Ass-hide Gelatin

Name

Ass-hide Gelatin

Latin Pharmaceutical Name

Asini Corii Colla

Chinese Name

阿胶

Category

Zoological substances

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Production Regions

Primarily produced in the Dong'e region of Shandong, as well as Henan, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang.

Macroscopic Features

Rectangular pieces, square pieces, hard and brittle texture, no oil holes, stoma or obvious knife marks. Externally smooth and lustrous, fractured surface is brown and translucent when observed under light, decoction pieces' surface is yellow and translucent amber-like, lustrous black and laquer-like. faint odor; slightly sweet taste.

Quality Requirements

Superior medicinal material has a consistent color, a brittle texture, translucent, shiny fractured surface.

Properties

Sweet, neutral

Functions

Supplements blood, stops blood, enriches yin, moistens dryness.

Processed Form

E jiao zhu (e jiao pearls): heat the clam shell powder before fry the E jiao, till the clam shell powder turned loose, put dice-like small e jiao pieces and fry to enlarge to round pearl-like, yellowish-white, immediately take out and sift our clam shell powder and cool. Deduced the greasy nature to smash and to decoct. Reduce the side effect of impeding stomach, induce the effect of enriches yin, moistens the lung, and correct bad odor. Cattail pollen processed form has same effect as clam powder processed, but with tendency of stopping bleeding and calming channels.

Origin

The solid gelati made from the skin of Equus asinus L, via a process of boiling and concentrating. (Equidae).

Ass-hide GelatinHerbs in the formula

Turtle Shell Decocted Pill

Action：Moves qi, invigorates blood, dispels dampness, dissolves phlegm, softens hardness, and disperses concretions.

Indication：Bie Jia Jian Wan is indicated for chronic malaria with masses below the costal region and abdominal masses. Long-lasting malaria causes masses to gather underneath the costal region. It is called chronic malaria with masses. Symptoms include: Masses underneath the costal region that stay firm when pushed, abdominal pain, weak muscles, decreased appetite, occasional cold or fever, and inhibited menses.

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Polyporus Decoction

Action：Promotes urination, nourishes yin, and clears heat.

Indication：Zhu Ling Tang is indicated for patterns of binding water and heat. The symptoms are dysuria, fever, thirst with a desire to drink, vexation, insomnia, coughing, vomiting, nausea, and diarrhea. The tongue is red with a white or slightly yellow coating and the pulse is thready and rapid. It is also indicated for blood strangury marked by difficult, painful urination as well as pain and distension of the abdomen.

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Channel-Warming Decoction

Action：Warms the channels and dissipates cold, dispels stasis and nourishes blood.

Indication：Wen Jing Tang is indicated for deficiency-cold of the chong and ren mai, obstructive blood stasis marked by menstrual spotting or purple menses with blood clots. There may be irregular menstruation such as advanced, delayed, or prolonged periods, or having a period twice a month. There may also be inhibited menses, fever at night, vexatious heat in the palms, dry lips and mouth, distention and fullness of the lower abdomen, a dark red tongue, and a thready, choppy pulse. Infertility due to deficient cold of the uterus may also manifest.

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Yellow Earth Decoction

Action：Warms yang and fortifies the spleen, nourishes blood and stanches bleeding.

Indication：Huang Tu Tang is indicated for pattern of spleen yang insufficiency, and spleen failing to control the blood. The symptoms are bloody stool, in which the stool comes out first, spitting of blood, nosebleed, flooding and spotting (beng lou) of dark colored menstrual blood, cold four limbs, sallow complexion, a pale tongue with a white coating, and a deep, thin and weak pulse.

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Eliminate Dryness and Rescue the Lung Decoction

Action：Relieves dryness and moistens the lung, nourishes yin and boosts qi.

Indication：Qing zao jiu fei tang is indicated for the pattern of warm-dryness damaging the lung, complicated by damage to both qi and yin. The symptoms are fever, headache, coughing with no sputum, labored breathing, dryness of the nose and throat, vexation, thirst, chest fullness and hypochondriac pain. The tongue body is dry with scanty tongue coating, and the pulse is deficient, big, and rapid.

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Honey-Fried Licorice Decoction

Action：Boosts qi, enriches yin, unblocks yang, and restores the pulse.

Indication：1. Zhi Gan Cao Tang is indicated for patterns of yin-blood and yang-qi deficiency with malnutrition of the heart vessel. The symptoms are intermittent or knotted pulse, palpitations, weakness, emaciation, weak breathing, etc. The tongue is peeled with a scanty or dry and thin coating.

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Major Wind-Stabilizing Pill

Action：Enriches yin and extinguishes wind.

Indication：Da Ding Feng Zhu is indicated for a pattern of stirring of wind due to yin deficiency. The symptoms are clonic convulsions of the extremities, weak physique, lassitude of the spirit, a deep red tongue body with a scanty tongue coating, and a weak pulse; patients have a strong tendency of desertion.

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Nine Immortals Powder

Action：Astringes the lung, relieves cough, boosts qi and nourishes yin.

Indication：Jiu Xian San is designed for a pattern of chronic cough caused by lung deficiency. The main symptoms include a chronic, unremitting cough that may be accompanied by labored breathing in severe cases, spontaneous sweating, scanty, sticky phlegm, and a deficient, rapid pulse.

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