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tonify blood – blood deficiency
stops bleeding
nourish/moisten Yin – dry lung – consumption (xiao ke)

Dosage: 3-15g.

Other names：

lu pi jiao lu
pen fu jiao 盆 覆 膠

Pharmaceutical name:  Colla Corrii Asini

Latin Zoological name:  Equus asinus L.

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:

Improves red cell count,
Corrects hypotension.;
Improve stress resistance of laboratory  mice in cold exposure, tiredness, and radiation exposure.  
Improves muscle weakness due to malnutrition in guinea pigs.
Improves calcium absorption of laboratory dogs.
Improves immune system.
Improves conditions of kidney inflammation.  
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.

Chemical ingredients: 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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