| Origin |
A solid gum made by decocting and concentrating the skin of Equus Asinus L., a donkey in the horse family.
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| Function and treatment |
Tonifying the blood and nourishing Yin, moistening dryness and stopping bleeding. Used for deficiency of blood and atrophy, dizziness and palpitation, muscle impotence and weakness, sleeplessness, internal movement of deficient wind, cough with dry lung, coughing and hemoptysis, vomiting blood and urinating blood, blood in stool and bleeding from avalanche, pregnancy and fetal leakage. |
| Origin and best harvesting period |
The《Famous Doctor's Record》: ‘Donkey-hide Glue is born in Dongping County (now Dongping County, Shandong Province), boiled cowhide made of, out of Dong'a County.’ The《Compendium of Materia Medica》says: ‘All the gum is made from October to February and March, using fondled cattle, buffalo and donkey skin as the top, pig, horse, mule and camel skin as the second, and the old skin, shoes and shoes as the bottom.’ |
