Ejiao (e jiao)

Colla Corii Asini

Properties: Sweet in flavour, neutral in nature, it is tropistic to the lung, liver and kidney channels. Owing to its sweet neutral and moist properties, this drug can replenish liver-blood, nourish kidney-yin, stop bleeding and moisten the lung. It can be used to treat syndromes of blood deficiency, hyperactivity of fire due to Yin-deficiency, various types of hemorrhage and Yin-impairment due to lung-dryness.

Effects: Replenishing blood, stooping bleeding, nourishing Yin and moistening the lung.

Indications:

1. For syndrome of blood-deficiency, it is often used with blood tonics, such as Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Radix Codonopsis Pilosuae, etc.

2. For hemetemesis, hemoptysis, hemafecia, metrorrhagia, metrostaxis, etc. in the type of deficiency-cold, it is used with herbs  for replenishing Qi, warming Yang, invigorating channels and stopping bleeding, such as Rhizoma Atractylodis Macrocephalae, Rhizoma Zingiberis, Folium Artemisiae Argyi, baked Rhizoma Zingiberis, Recens, Ootheca Mantidis, etc. ; for bleeding due to blood-heat, it is used with herbs for removing heat from blood and stopping bleeding, such as Radix Rehmamniae, Pollen Typhae, Radix Scutellariae, Cacumen Biotae, Herba seu Radix Cirsil Japonici, Herba Cephalanoploris, Fructus Gardeniae Carbonisatus, etc.

3. For Yin-impairment due to lung-dryness, dry cough with less sputum, or cough with bloody sputum, it is used with herbs for moistening the lung to arrest cough, such as Radix Glehnlae, Radix Ophiopogonis, Folium Mori Bulbus, Fritillariae Cirrhosae, Semen Armeniacae Amarum, etc. ; for Yin-impairment from febrile diseases, flaring up of the asthenic fire, irritability, and insomnia, it is often used with herbs for nourishing Yin and dispelling fire, such as Rhizoma Coptidis, Radix Paeoniae Alba, etc. , as in Decoction of Coptis and Donkey-Hide Glue (Huanglian Ejiao tang).

Dosage and Administration: 5-15g, melted by heating for oral administration with water.

Precautions: It is sticky and greasy in property and can hider digestion, so it is improper to prescribe to patients with dyspepsia due to hypofunction of the spleen.

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For the convenience of customers, we offer the Ejiao (e jiao) as the quick-dissolving granule made through modern technology.

Directions:

Every sachet is equivalent to raw herb 3 grams.

The dosage is for adults, one sachet each time, twice a day. Please put the granule into a cup, then put 50-100ml boiling water into the cup and stir it with spoon. You will get some tea, drink it when it is luke-warm. For children, the dosage should be reduced according to the weight.

Air ship 50 sachets of Ejiao (e jiao) in the form of quick-dissolving granule for your personal use now at $98.00.

If you would like to order this raw herb, please go to the order form.