WH Acupuncture & Herbs Centre

This medicial is the solid glue made from the hide of Equus asinus (family Equidae) after rinsing, plukcing, and stewing. It is named after Dong'E, a county of Shangdong Province, where the one produced is of the best quality. It is used in its unprepared form after smashing, or stir-baked with oyster shell powder or Puhuang into small glue-like balls.

[ Medicinal Properties ]: Sweet,meutral; relate to lung, liver and kidney meridians.

[ Medicial Efficacies ]: Tonify blood, nourish yin, moisten the dryness, stop bleeding .

[ Clinical Applications ]: 1. Blood deficiency syndrome    It is an essential medicinal for treating blood deficiency. It is better at treating bleeding due to blood deificiency and usually prscribed with Shudihuang, Danggui and Shaoyao, as in the Ejiao Siwu Decoction. For palpitations, fearful throbbing, knotted and intermittent pulse, due to deficiency of qi and blood, it is often prescribed with Guizhi and Gancao, as in the Zhigancao Decoction.

2. Hemorrhage   For bloody urine during pregnancy, it is baked by itself and ground into powder for oral administration. In cases of hematemesis and hemorrhage due to yin deficiency with blood-heat, it is combined with puhuang and Shengdihuang. To treat hemoptysis, it is used together with Renshen and Tiandong. Also, for metrorrhagia and metrostaxia due to blood deficiency or blood-cold, it may be used with Shudihuang and Danggui. To treat hemafecia or hematuria due to deficiency-cold of spleen qi, combined with Baizhu and Zaoxintu, in the Huangtu Decoction.

3. Yin deficiency with little phlegm, dry syndrome of lung heat with yindeficiency, manifested as dry cough with little phlegm, dry throat and bloody sputum, it is used in combination with Madouling, Niubangzi and Xingren. Yet, for syndromes of dryness injury to the lung manifesting as dry cough without sputum, dry nose and throat, it is combined together with Sangye, Xingren and Maidong.

4. Dysphoria and insomnia, clonic convulsions of the four extremities     In combination with Huanglian and Baishao, as in the Huaglian EJiao Decoction, it treats febrile disease with dysphoria and insomnia due to deficiency of kidney yin with exuberance of heart fire. For clonic convulsion of the four extremities in the advanced stage of febriledisease encompassing exhaustion of true yin and yin deficiency stirring wind, it is combined with Guijia and hen egg yolk, as in the Dadingfeng Decoction or Xiaodingfeng Decoction.

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

[ Precautions ]: It is sticky and greasy and may cause of dyspepsia; therefore, it should be administered cautiously for patient with weakness of spleen and stomach.

阿胶为马科动物驴Ｅquus asinus L．的皮，经漂泡去毛后熬制而成的胶块。古时以产于山东省东阿县而得名。以山东、浙江、江苏等地产量较多。以原胶块用，或将胶块打碎，用蛤粉炒或蒲黄炒成阿胶珠用。