Men can eat donkey-hide gelatin, but there is no rule saying that men cannot eat donkey-hide gelatin. The taboos for eating donkey-hide gelatin are as follows:

1. People with weak spleen and stomach should take it with caution.

2. "Compendium of Materia Medica": Do not take it if it is sticky, has a weak stomach and causes vomiting; it should also be avoided if the spleen and stomach are weak and cannot digest food.

3. "Compendium of Materia Medica": People with weak stomach, vomiting, cold phlegm and retained fluids should avoid it.

4. "Compendium of Materia Medica": Do not use if you have diarrhea.

Extended information

Donkey-hide gelatin is named after it was originally produced in Dong'e. China's earliest extant pharmacological monograph "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" lists donkey-hide gelatin as "top grade". Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" in the Ming Dynasty records: "Donkey-hide gelatin is top grade. Hong Jing said: "It comes from Dong'e, so it is named donkey-hide gelatin." According to historical records, Li Shizhen was born in 1518 and died in 1593.

There is also an ancient folk song circulating in Dong'a, "A little black donkey, with a white belly, a pink nose, pink eyes, and pink hooves, comes to eat grass on the Lion's Ear Mountain, and drinks water from the Langxi River. We walked three times on the Ji Bridge, rolled in the Wei family farm, and slaughtered them in the winter to get their skins. In the process of making glue, we used gold pots and silver shovels, burned mulberry wood, chopped firewood, and boiled it for seventy-four years. It takes nineteen days to form glue.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Donkey-hide gelatin cake

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