Pharmaceutical name:英文名：

 Colla Corrii Asini

Latin Zoological name: 拉丁名：

 Equus asinus L.  （glue of hide)

Pron. in Japanese: 日語發音：

 akyo

Pron. in Korean: 韓語發音：

 agyo

Pron. in Cantonese: 粵語發音：

 o1 guaa1

Other names：

別名：

Common Name:英文名：

 Donkey hide glue

Distribution:

分布：

 mainly produced in Shandong, China.

主產於：山東。別省亦有生產。

Properties (characteristics)：性味：

 slightly sweet in taste, neutral

略甘，平。

Channels (meridians) entered:

歸經:

 kidney, liver, lung

腎，肝，肺。

Actions & Indications:

主治：

E jiao with cattail pollen (pu huang) is usually used for arresting bleeding.

Being used in chronic diarrhea, purpura,  phobias, obsessions, compulsions, excessive anxiety, insomnia, chronic cough (due to TB), vomiting blood, bleeding in the uterus not during menses and metrostaxis (small but continuous haemorrhage of the uterine mucous membrane), apostaxis （slightly bleeding), hemoptysis (coughing up blood), hematuria (blood in urine),  hematochezia (blood in feces), due to yinxu with flushed tongue, thready and rapid pulse.

For promoting growth 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:

藥理作用﹕

1. Improves red cell count,

2. Corrects hypotension.;

3. Improve stress resistance of laboratory  mice in cold exposure, tiredness, and radiation exposure.  

3. Improves muscle weakness due to malnutrition in guinea pigs.

4.  Improves calcium absorption of laboratory dogs.

5.  Improves immune system.

6. Improves conditions of kidney inflammation.  

7. Increase blood pressure.

增進紅血球數量

改善低血壓

增進試驗室小鼠的抗壓能力：對冷，疲勞，輻射之抵抗力

改善營養不良的豚鼠的肌肉氣力

改善試驗室狗隻的鈣質的吸收

改善免疫系統

增加血壓

Samples of formulae:

處方舉例：

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 gu, mu li,  suan zao ren , chen pi. Effectiveness of formula: 13  patients; 8 healed; 5 improved.

Ulcer of lower legs: clean and disinfect the ulcer areas. Each time, before applying new medication, use infra red light on the ulcer areas for 10 to 15 minutes.  According to the affected areas, apply about 2 to 3 g of e jia paste on disinfected gauze and cover the ulcer area. Stabilize the gauze. 

Note:

To make e jiao paste: mix 30 g of e jiao with 70 c.c. of water. Simmer in low heat until it becomes paste. [1]

[1] Journal of Eastern and Western Medicine, 1987；（4）：241）

陰虛陽盛而失眠伴有頭暈，頭痛，心陣跳，疲倦，臉色蒼白，無食慾，口亁，有時尿赤，便亁，舌紅，或粉紅無苔，脈弦數或細數或浮，或滑。用黃連阿膠湯，去黃 芩，加 龍骨，牡蠣，酸 棗 仁， 陳皮。

療效：13病例。8人痊愈。5人有進步。

治療小腿慢性潰瘍：先將潰瘍面作清創消毒，每次換藥前紅外線照射10～15分鐘。然後將30 克 阿膠放入碗內，加淨水70 c.c.，文火溫化成膏。按創面大小，將2～3 克阿膠膏置於無菌紗條或紗布塊上覆蓋於創面，固定，每天1次。一般20餘次即愈。（《中西醫結合雜志》 ，1987；（4）：241）。

Chemical ingredients: 化學成份﹕

composed of collagen 膠原質 . Hydrolyzed into amino acids 氨基酸 : including 10% of lysine 離胺酸, 7 % of  arginine 精胺酸, 2 % of histamine 組織胺 , 1 % of cysteine,  tryptophan 色胺酸, hydroxyproline 羥脯胺酸, serine 絲胺酸,  aspartic  acid 天門冬胺酸, threonine 羥丁胺酸,  glutamic acid 麩胺酸, proline,  glycine 甘胺酸,  alanine 丙胺酸, valine 纈胺酸, methionine 甲硫胺酸,  isoleucine 異白胺酸, leucine 白胺酸, tyrosine 酪胺酸,  proline 脯胺酸, histadine 組胺酸and  phenylalanine 苯丙胺酸.

Dosage:

用量:

5 to 15 grams a day。

Soak e jiao in rice wine to rid of gamey smell. After dissolving add to the herb liquid that have been strained of solid.

每日量﹕5~15 克。先把阿膠放入黃酒浸泡去腥，待膏溶脹後，倒入煮好的清藥汁中。

Cautions:

禁忌

Do not use when there is blood stasis, pixu (stagnation in digestion, weak digestion), external syndrome as in cold or flu.

According to the book Ben Cao Bei Yao, not to use in case of diarrhea.

內有 血淤   脾虛、及有表證者忌服。

《本草備要》：“ 瀉者忌用”