Can men eat donkey-hide gelatin to replenish their bodies?
Ejiao is a good blood tonic, which is favored by people. For a long time, Ejiao has been widely used in clinic to treat women's fetal movement during pregnancy, amenorrhea due to blood deficiency, metrorrhagia, excessive blood loss during delivery, etc. So some people think that Ejiao can only be used by women, and men can't take it. Actually, this is a misunderstanding. Men value essence, and essence and blood are homologous and mutually beneficial. More blood, less blood is poverty. So replenishing blood can also replenish essence. In addition, Ejiao also has the functions of nourishing yin and moistening dryness, tonifying deficiency and moistening lung, and is also used to treat various hemorrhagic diseases such as gingival bleeding, nosebleeds, hematuria, hematemesis, bloody stool, etc. It also has certain curative effects on shortness of breath, listlessness, dizziness and palpitations. Ancient doctors used Ejiao to treat diseases such as deficiency syndrome and blood syndrome of men and women. For example, the Song Dynasty's "Rihuazi Materia Medica" said that Ejiao "treats all kinds of wind, including nasal overflow, vomiting blood, intestinal wind, bloody dysentery and collapse." In the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen pointed out in Compendium of Materia Medica that Ejiao could "treat hematemesis, epistaxis, bloody stranguria, hematuria, intestinal wind, dysentery ... all men and women with wind diseases ... cough and asthma due to exhaustion, and purulent blood due to lung flaccidity". So Ejiao can be taken by both men and women. Colla Corii Asini is used together with the above refined yellow wine and crystal sugar, and appropriate amount of red dates, walnuts and black sesame seeds are added. It has a very good effect on male weakness, anemia, palpitation, dizziness and shortness of breath, and can also improve neurasthenia, insomnia and dreaminess. If you cough for many years, you can also take ginseng and scallion oil soup Ejiao. Cough due to lung deficiency can be decocted with Colla Corii Asini, Perilla frutescens and Mume Fructus. In addition, Ejiao also has the function of tonifying kidney. For example, it was pointed out in the "Outline" of the Qing Dynasty that Ejiao can "treat low back pain caused by internal injuries, strengthen tendons and essence, and strengthen kidneys". Therefore, it can also be used to treat male diseases, such as impotence due to kidney deficiency and house strain. , such as house strain, yin and blood injury, hot flashes, night sweats, dizziness and other symptoms. There is also a turtle version of Ejiao soup that nourishes yin and blood: medicated roast turtle version 18g, Ejiao 6g. First, fry the turtle version with water, boil the water for 50 minutes, then take the soup and put the donkey-hide gelatin to dissolve. Daily], taken on an empty stomach, the effect is good.