What is Ejiao? Is it made from donkey skin?

Ejiao is made from donkey skin.

Ejiao is rectangular in shape, brown and black in color, and has a lustrous glow, showing a slightly transparent effect under light.

And according to the clear provisions of the National Pharmacopoeia, when making ejiao, only donkey skin can be used to boil, and the effect of glue boiled out of the fur of other animals is not the same, among which if horse skin is used to boil ejiao, it will lead to miscarriage of pregnant women.

Preparation materials: 2 catties of fresh donkey skin, 250 grams of walnuts, 250 grams of rock sugar, 250 grams of black sesame seeds, 250 milligrams of rice wine, 100 grams of wolfberry, 200 grams of red dates

Step 1: Blanch the prepared donkey skins in a pot of boiling hot water.

Step 2: Take out the blanched donkey skin and simmer it in a pressure cooker for an hour and a half.

Step 3: After an hour and a half, remove the boiled donkey skin gum.

Step 4: Add the prepared rice wine to the pot and continue to put it in the pressure cooker to boil.

Step 5: Add the prepared rock sugar to the pot, stir well and boil.

Step 6: Put all the remaining ingredients into the pot and continue to simmer for 5 minutes.

Step 7: After 5 minutes, take it out and dry it to complete the boiling of ejiao.

Ejiao is made from donkey skin.

The shape of Ejiao is rectangular blocks, the color is brownish-black or jet-black, and it is accompanied by luster, showing a slightly transparent effect under light.

And according to the clear provisions of the National Pharmacopoeia, when making ejiao, only donkey skin can be used to boil, and the effect of the glue boiled out of the fur of other animals in the eggplant section is different, among which if the horse skin is used to boil ejiao, it will lead to miscarriage of pregnant women.

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l.and other donkey skins by decoction and concentration of solid glue. Those who fry into beads with clam flour are called Ejiao beads.

Sexual taste, return to the scriptures] sweet, flat. Return to the lungs, liver, and kidney meridians.

Efficacy] nourishes blood, stops bleeding, moisturizes yin and dryness.

Application and compatibility].

1. It is used for blood deficiency, chlorosis, dizziness, palpitations, etc. It is a good product for blood tonic. It is often used in conjunction with rehmannia rehmannia, angelica, astragalus and other qi and blood tonic medicines.

It is used for a variety of bleeding syndromes. Good hemostatic effect. It is especially suitable for patients with bleeding and yin deficiency and blood deficiency syndrome.

Treatment of blood fever and vomiting, with Pu Huang and raw rehmannia (such as "Qianjin Yifang", treatment of cough and saliva and blood loss, fatigue and timidity, compatible with ginseng, white and, etc., such as "Phlegm Fire and Snow"; Treat lung and cough blood, compatible with ginseng, asparagus, schisandra, baiji, etc., such as "Zhizhi Fang" Ejiao San; The treatment of blood in the stool is as follows: bean juice, compatible with angelica, red peony, etc., such as Ejiao peony medicinal soup; Treatment of stool before blood, with white peony, Coptis chinensis, etc., such as "Medical Forest Collection" Ejiao pills; The treatment of Chong Ren is not solid, collapse and leakage and Ming Jianmu pregnancy blood, with raw rehmannia and mugwort leaves, etc., such as Jiao Ai soup.

Thrill 3It is used for yin deficiency syndrome and dryness syndrome. It can moisturize yin and dryness.

Treat temperature and dryness and hurt the lungs, dry cough without phlegm, with wheat winter, almonds, etc., such as dry and lung-saving soup, treat fever and illness and hurt yin, fatigue and sleeplessness, with white peony, chicken yellow, etc., such as Coptis Ejiao soup; Treatment of fever and injury yin, liquid drying and wind, fistula of hands and feet, with turtle plate, oysters, white peony, rehmannia and so on, such as Dading wind beads.

Dosage] into the decoction, 5 15g, boiled light; Ejiao beads are commonly used to stop bleeding, and they can be decocted together.

Precautions for use] This product is greasy, hinders digestion, and should be used with caution if the stomach is weak and loose stools.

Ejiao is made from the skin of a donkey.

Ejiao, the name of traditional Chinese medicine. It is a rubber block made of the skin of the donkey of the equine donkey genus, which is boiled after bleaching and removing hair, which is a traditional nourishing and nourishing blood product. Donkey skins can be harvested all year round.

Generally, the production season is from October to May of the following year. First, put the donkey branch skin into a container, soak it in water to soften it, remove the donkey hair, chop it into small pieces, then soak it in water to make it white, put it in boiling water, take it out when the skin is curled, and then put it into a boiling pot for boiling. After boiling, pour it into a container, take it out after the gel has solidified, cut it into small pieces, and let it dry.

This product comes in neat rectangular or square blocks. Usually about length, width, thickness or . The surface is tan or black-brown, and it is shiny. The texture is hard and brittle, the section is shiny, and the fragments are brown and translucent to light. The breath is slight and the taste is slightly sweet.

Ejiao is made from donkey skin.

The record of Ejiao as a medicine can be traced back to the "Shennong's Materia Medica". The main raw material used in ancient Ejiao was originally cowhide, and it was clearly pointed out in the "Famous Doctor's Record" of the Northern and Southern Dynasties: "Ejiao, born in Dongping County, made of cowhide, out of Dong'e."

In the Tang Dynasty, it was recorded in the Tang Dynasty's "Qianjinfang Food Treatment" that cowhide, horse skin, and donkey skin were all used to make ejiao, indicating that the raw materials of ejiao were gradually diversified.

In the Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty, cowhide was mainly used for armaments, such as armor, bows and crossbows, etc., which were not enough, so the "ban on cowhide" was promulgated, and the people were not allowed to hide cowhide. This practice is similar to the official camp order of salt and iron and the ban on ginseng mining in Chinese history. Due to the limitation of resources, cowhide gradually withdrew from the market, and donkey skin became a substitute for making ejiao.

In ancient times, donkeys could not charge on the battlefield like horses, nor could they drive in the fields like oxen. As commented in the Han Dynasty's "Treatise on Salt and Iron": Winning a donkey is not the power of cattle and horses.

The little donkey is often unloaded after the end of the mission of pulling the sleeve and grinding. In order to exert the residual heat, donkey skin came in handy in the production of ejiao.

Ejiao's Now:

Ejiao made from cowhide is called yellow gelatin, while those made from donkey skin are called ejiao.

Nowadays, donkey skin has become the mainstream of Ejiao raw materials, and the Chinese Pharmacopoeia has also determined the legal status of donkey skin as a raw material for Ejiao.