Chinese Herbal Medicine: Efficacy and Effects of Colla Corii Asini

Colla Corii Asini

(Ben Jing)

Synonyms Fu Zhi Gum (Ben Jing), Pelvic Gum (Tao Hongjing), Donkey Skin Gum (Thousand Gold - Food Therapy).

Source for the equine animal donkey skin dehairing and boiled into a gelatinous mass. Animal form detailed "donkey meat" article.

Method will be placed in water bleaching donkey skin, water 1 to 2 times a day, to be able to scrape the hair out, scrape off the hair, cut into small pieces, and then bleach with water as before, about 2 to 5 days, placed in a pot with water. Decoction about 3 days and nights, to be thick liquid removed, add water and then fried, so repeated 5 to 6 times, decocted to the gelatinous mention all, dregs. Decocted gelatin filtration (or add a little alum finely ground) standing, so that the impurities precipitate, filtered clear gelatin, with a gentle fire to concentrate (or 2 hours before the gel to add an appropriate amount of wine and rock sugar), to the thick paste, dumped into the gel groove, to be condensed naturally, take out the cut into long squares, drying. Each piece weighs about 1 two or 2 two, small pieces weigh about 1.5 money.

The herb is in the form of a neat rectangular block, usually about 8.5 centimeters long, 3.7 centimeters wide, and 0.7 or 1.5 centimeters thick. The surface is brownish black or black, smooth, glossy. Slightly transparent to light. The texture is brittle and fragile, the section is brownish black or black, smooth and glossy. Gas faint, taste slightly sweet. To color black, shiny, transparent, no fishy smell, not soft through the summer is good.

Mainly produced in Shandong, Zhejiang. Shandong producers are the most famous, Zhejiang production is the largest. In addition, Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Wuhan, Shenyang and other places are also produced.

The chemical composition is mostly made of collagen and its partial hydrolysis products, containing 16.43-16.54% nitrogen, basically protein. Hydrolysis produces a variety of amino acids, including lysine 10%, arginine 7%, histidine 2% and so on. From the point of view of amino acids, gelatin and gelatin similar, but the former lysine more, and contains cystine, and the lack of tryptophan. Containing ash 0.75 ~ 1.09%, calcium 0.079 ~ 0.118%.

Pharmacological effects ① effect on blood cells

After a large number of blood draws caused by hemorrhagic anemia in dogs, with the gum solution gavage (30 g / day, **** 10 days), its erythrocytes and hemoglobin increased faster than the control group.

② Effect on calcium metabolism

Gum can improve calcium balance in animals. Gastric gavage with Colla Corii Asini, along with calcium carbonate in the food, can increase calcium absorption and retention in the body, so that the blood calcium slightly increased; this calcium-carrying effect may be related to the glycine contained in Colla Corii Asini.

③ Prevention and treatment of progressive muscular dystrophy

The guinea pigs were fed with special feeds to cause progressive muscular dystrophy in all of them, and only 20% of those who added Colla Corii Asini occurred, and most of them were sound and asymptomatic. After the occurrence of this disease, and then use the gum, can also make the disease gradually reduce. The authors believe that vitamin E can prevent and control this disease, and the reason for the effectiveness of gum may be related to its ability to prevent the oxidative destruction of vitamin E in the feed. The special feed has a moderate amount of vitamin E, but because it also contains animal fats, easy to make vitamin E oxidation failure and cause this disease.

④ Other effects

The cat test proved that in its traumatic shock critical period, saline is difficult to save the case, injection of Colla Corii Asini refined solution, can make the blood pressure rise and turn the danger into peace. With commercially available Colla Corii Asini in 4 cases of cholecystography (15-20 grams, with water), only 1 person has obvious gallbladder contraction, the remaining 3 cases no change.

Concocted Colla Corii Asini: pounded with. Colla Corii Asini beads: first clam powder in the pot to heat, to ease into the cut dice-shaped small pieces of Colla Corii Asini, fried until the bulge into a round bead, yellowish-white, and immediately removed, sieve off the clam powder, and let it cool.

① "Lei Gong saturated scorching theory": "Where to make the gum, the first in the pig fat immersed in a night, to the Ming out, in the willow fire on the scorching, to be soaked, fine grinding with."

② Tao Hongjing: "Colla Corii Asini for medicinal purposes, are fire-roasted, pills must be extremely combustible, into the soup slightly roasted."

③ "Compendium": "Colla Corii Asini, today's methods or fried into beads, or fried with the face, or fire roast, or fried with clam powder, or fried with grass ash, or wine into a paste, or water into a paste, when each from the recipe."

Sweet in nature and flat.

① "Ben Jing": "Sweet flavor, flat."

② "Other Records": "Slightly warm, non-toxic."

③ "Medical Qiyuan": "The Secret of the Lord's Secret" cloud, the nature of the flat, bland flavor."

③ "Medical Qiyuan": "The Secret of the Lord's Treatment": "It is flat in nature and bland in flavor.

① "Tang Liquid Materia Medica": "Into the hand Taiyin, foot Shaoyin, syncope meridian."

② "Materia Medica": "Into the hand Shaoyin, foot Shaoyin, syncope meridian."

Functions and Indications Nourish yin and replenish blood, stabilize the fetus. It is used in treating blood deficiency, cough due to deficiency labor, vomiting blood, epistaxis, blood in stool, menstrual disorders in women, disintegration, and fetal leakage.

① Ben Jing: "Mainly used for heart and abdominal disintegration, labor spilling like malaria, waist and abdominal pain, limb pain, women's hemorrhage. It is also used to stabilize the fetus. Taken for a long time to benefit the gas."

② "Bibliography": "Husband abdominal pain, fatigue and thinness, lack of yin, foot soreness can not stand for a long time, to raise the liver."

③ "Treatise on Medicinal Properties": "The main firm tendons and bones, beneficial to stop diarrhea."

④ "Thousand Gold - Food Cure": "Cure gale."

⑤ Monk: "To treat all wind and poisonous bone pain, *** not stopping, eliminate and sprinkle service."

⑥ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Treatment of all winds, and nasal flooding, vomiting blood, intestinal wind, bloody diarrhea and collapse in the band."

⑦ "Compendium": "Treating vomiting blood, epistaxis, hemorrhagic drenching, urinary blood, intestinal wind, dysentery. Women's blood pain, blood wither, menstrual disorders, childlessness, disintegration, hypoglossia, prenatal and postnatal diseases. Men and women with all wind diseases, bone and joint pain, edema, cough and wheezing, lung impotence, spitting pus and blood, and carbuncle, gangrene and swelling. And blood nourishing yin, in addition to wind and dryness, phlegm clearing the lungs, facilitating urination, regulating the large intestine."

⑧ "Compendium of Gleanings": "Treatment of internal injuries and lumbago, strong stretching, add essence to solidify the kidneys."

Usage and dosage for internal use: yellow wine or boiling water melted, 1.5 to 3 money; decoction or into the pill, bulk.

ContraindicationsShould be taken with caution if the spleen and stomach are weak.

① "Materia Medica Jing Jiezhu": "Get fire good, afraid of rhubarb."

② "Treatise on Medicinal Properties": "Dioscorea as a make."

③ "Materia Medica": "sticky and greasy, the stomach is weak for vomiting do not take; spleen and stomach, food is not consumed people also avoid."

④ "Materia Medica": "The weak stomach and vomiting with cold phlegm to stay in the drink should be avoided."

⑤ "Materia Medica": "Avoid using it if you have diarrhea."

prescription ① treatment of pediatric lung deficiency, gas roughness and shortness of breath: Colla Corii Asini one or two and a half money (bran fried), millet sticky seeds (fried incense), licorice (roasted) two and a half minutes, Aristolochia five money (roasted), almonds, seven (peeled, pointed, fried), glutinous rice one or two (fried). The above for the end, each serving one, two money, water, decoction to six minutes, warm after eating. ("Children's medicine straight" Colla Corii Asini, also known as tonic lungs scattered)

② long cough: Colla Corii Asini (hot dry) one or two, two ginseng. On the two flavors, mashed Luo for the bulk, each serving three money dagger, black bean soup, into the white onion a little, with the decoction of three boils, put the temperature, in case of coughing sip three, five sip; according to the previous warmth, prepare for coughing and sip it again. ("Sheng Ji General Records" Colla Corii Asini drink)

③ treatment of epistaxis, mouth and ears are bleeding more than: Colla Corii Asini half a two (pounded and fried to make yellow dry), one or two Pu Huang. The above medicine is pounded into a fine Luo for bulk, each serving of two money, with a water, into the raw rhizome juice two, decocted to six minutes, regardless of the time, take warm. ("Sheng Hui Fang")

④ treatment of blood in the stool such as small bean juice: Colla Corii Asini (roasted dry), red peony, Angelica sinensis (cut, roasted) each one or two, licorice (roasted, filed) half two. On the four flavors, coarse pounding sieve, each serving five money dagger, water one and a half, into the bamboo leaves two seven pieces, with the decoction to eight minutes, remove the dregs, warm before eating. ("Sheng Ji General Records" Colla Corii Asini and Paeonia Lactiflora Soup)

⑤ Treatment of women with more than leakage: Colla Corii Asini, antler velvet three two each, squid bone, Angelica sinensis two two each, one or two of the Pu Huang. On the five flavors of the treatment under the sieve. Empty heart wine service square inch dagger, day three, night again. ("Thousand Gold Formula")

⑥ treatment of women with leakage of blood, half of the postpartum due to renewed blood, are not extinct, there are pregnant blood, false pregnancy pain in the abdomen, for the cell obstruction: ligusticum rhizome, Agaricus, licorice, each of two taels, Ai Ye, Angelica sinensis, each of three taels, paeonia lactiflora, four taels, six taels of dry dixiehuang. The above seven flavors, with five liters of water, three liters of wine, and boil three liters, remove the dregs, within the gum to eliminate, warm service one liter, three times a day, not bad more. ("Golden Chamber Essentials" gum ai soup)

(7) treatment of loss of dynamic mother (fetus), to blood abdominal pain: two two Colla Corii Asini (hot), Ai Ye two two. The above two flavors, with five liters of water, boiled to take two and a half liters, divided into three services. ("Small Square" gum ai soup)

⑧ treatment of abdominal pain in pregnancy, dysentery more than: Huanglian, pomegranate skin, Angelica sinensis each three two, two two of the Colla Corii Asini (sizzling), ai one and a half. On, six liters of water, decoction to two liters, divided into three services. Avoid cold and fat. ("Jing effect birth treasure")

9 post-partum dysentery: round-grained rice, wax (such as chicken seeds) a wax, Colla Corii Asini, Angelica sinensis six points, Huanglian ten points. On the five cut, with six and a half liters of water first boil rice, so that the crab eye boil. Go to the rice within the drug cooking, take two liters, into the Colla Corii Asini, wax melt, warm and divided into three, two service. ("monk deep set square" gum wax soup)

⑩ cure post-partum weakness, constipation: Colla Corii Asini (crushed fried), Citrus aurantium husk (soaked pith, gluten fried) two two, talcum (research fly for the clothes) half a two. The above for the end, refined honey pills such as sycamore seed size. Each serving twenty pills, warm water, half a day to not pass again. ("Bureau Square" Colla Corii Asini Hovenia Pill)

(11) treatment of elderly people with constipation: Colla Corii Asini (fried) two money, three slices of rooted onion white, two spoons of honey, new water to decoct, remove the onion, into the Colla Corii Asini, honey dissolved open, warm before eating. ("Ren Zhai straight guide formula" gum honey soup)

(12) treatment of stall slow wind and all the wind hand and foot paralysis, waist and foot weakness: donkey skin gelatin sizzling to make micro-raising, the first to cook onion and black bean porridge a liter of other storage; and one liter of water, cooking black beans, two, remove the dregs, within the gelatin is more boiled six, seven boiled, gelatin molten such as molasses, and then served; and warm eating before onion and black bean porridge any number of. If eaten cold, it will make people vomit. ("Guang Ji Fang")

Famous experts ① "Tang Liquid Materia Medica": "Colla Corii Asini benefits the lung gas, lung deficiency and extreme damage, coughing and spitting pus and blood, non-colla Corii Asini is not complementary. Zhongjing pig ling soup with Colla Corii Asini, slippery to facilitate the waterway. The living book "four things soup plus or minus example, pregnancy blood plus gum."

② Zhu Zhenheng: "(Colla Corii Asini) long cough and long diarrhea, deficiency and blood loss should be used. If the evil wins the first hair, with the strong closed its evil and other evidence."

③ "Compendium": "Colla Corii Asini, the main thing is just to replenish blood and fluid, so it can clear the lungs and benefit the yin and cure all the evidence. According to Chen Ziming cloud: supplement virtual with cowhide glue, to wind with donkey skin glue. Cheng Wuji cloud: Yin insufficient, supplemented with flavor, the sweetness of the gum, to supplement the yin and blood. Yang Shiying cloud: Where the treatment of wheezing and coughing, regardless of lung deficiency, lung real, can be under the temperature, must be used in the Colla Corii Asini in order to stabilize the lungs and moisturize the lungs, the nature of the peace, for the lungs through the key medicines. Children after the shock pupil is not correct, to the gum times ginseng decoction served the most good, gum Yushen, ginseng benefit gas. And dysentery due to summer heat and become, Colla Corii Asini is the main medicine of the large intestine, there is heat and toxicity stagnation, it can channel, no heat and toxicity stagnation, it can be safe. Several say enough to invent the gum of the hidden."

④ "wood grass Jing Shu": "Colla Corii Asini, the main woman under the blood, the collapse of the abdomen, labor spilling like malaria, lumbar and abdominal pain, pain in the limbs, fetal uneasiness and the husband's abdominal pain, fatigue and thinness, lack of yin qi, foot soreness can not be stood up for a long time and other certificates, are due to the essence of blood deficiency, insufficiency of liver and kidneys, the law should be to replenish the liver and blood. The "Classic" said: the lack of essence, supplemented with flavor. Taste of yin, this medicine has the flavor of yin, so as to enter the two meridians and get nourished, so it can treat such as the above evidence. Blood deficiency is no support for the liver, yin tonic blood, so it can nourish liver qi. Into the lungs and kidneys, to make up for deficiencies, so it can also benefit the qi, to the lungs main qi, kidney qi also. The treatment of vomiting blood, epistaxis, hemorrhagic drenching, urinary blood, intestinal wind and blood, bloody diarrhea, women's blood and gas pain, blood wither, collapse, bring down, prenatal and post-partum diseases, as well as coughing, lung impotence, lung carbuncle, pus and blood, etc., are all based on its entry into the lungs and kidneys, benefiting the yin and nourishing the water, replenishing the blood to clear the heat of the function."

⑤ "Materia Medica": "Colla Corii Asini, the word phlegm, that is, Yin qi moistening down, can expel the inflammation of the fire of the person, not the general treatment of phlegm of dampness and stagnation. Its words cure asthma, that is, the treatment of inflammation on the fire, belonging to the yin qi does not guard the gasp, not general treatment of wind-cold outside the bundle, wet stagnation on the congestion of the same. The words of the treatment of blood dysentery, such as summer fever dysentery of blood, not the general treatment of dampness and heat of dysentery. When it is said that the treatment of soreness in the limbs is the pain of blood drying up and blood staining, it is not a general treatment for the pain caused by exogenous injuries. The treatment of epistaxis, can be slowly work in the deficiency, and violent heat for the patient, or external depression for the patient, or anger for the patient, but also when the trial use."

Reminder: Colla Corii Asini This herbal medicine is derived from the Internet, please follow your doctor's instructions before use.