E Jiao
| E Jiao in TCM:Explore the properties of E Jiao according to Chinese
Nutrition and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM):
Factoids:
English Name: ass-hide glue, donkey-hide gelatin, gelatin
Pharmacuetical Name: Radix Stemonae
Properties: sweet, bitter, neutral
Temperature: neutral
Channels: LU, KD, LV
Flavors: sweet, bitter
Tonifies: blood, yin
Special Properties:
stops bleeding, resolves dryness
Actions / Indications:
- Tonifies blood (palpitations due to blood deficiency,
dizziness, sallow complexion)
- Nourishes blood; stops bleeding (consumptive cough
with blood, blood in stool, bleeding with yin or blood deficiency, excess
menstrual, uterine bleeding, threatened miscarriage)
- Nourishes Yin, Moistens Dryness in LU (insomnia after
febrile disease; yin deficiency with irritability, dry lung cough due
to yin deficiency)
- (cc: SP/ST deficiency, phlegm damp, or diarrhea due to cloying nature)
- (cooking: dissolve in the strained decoction)
Special Notes:
- (cooking: dissolve in the strained decoction)
- To enhance hemostatic properties E Jiao should be prepared with Pu
Huang.
Contraindications:
- (cc: SP/ST deficiency, phlegm damp, or diarrhea due to cloying nature)
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