The main ways of taking it are to dissolve it and grind it into powder.

1. Sterilization

That is, take a small piece of donkey-hide gelatin and break it into pieces, put it into a bowl or a small wine cup, add rice wine or water, put it into a pot, and stew it with water. , donkey hide gelatin becomes liquid after stewing. At this time, it can be added to the boiled Chinese medicine for consumption. Because donkey-hide gelatin is directly added to Chinese medicines and boiled together, it will be thicker and it is easy to fry the Chinese medicines into paste, so the method of boiling is used.

2. Beat it into powder

With the current tool update, you can beat the donkey-hide gelatin block into powder, boil a cup of milk, add the donkey-hide gelatin powder to the milk, stir and melt before taking it . You can also go to the drug store to buy a powder grinder to grind the donkey-hide gelatin blocks into powder. The disadvantage of powdering is that the taste is not particularly good, but there are no other ingredients added.

Shelf life of donkey-hide gelatin blocks:

In our country, even salt, a condiment that the ancients said "doesn't go rancid", needs to have a shelf life marked on the package. Donkey-hide gelatin is a prescription drug. If you check the instructions for donkey-hide gelatin, you can find that the shelf life of donkey-hide gelatin is usually 60 months, which is 5 years. Therefore, there is no saying that the older the gelatin is, the better or that it is better to eat aged gelatin.

This is related to the production process of donkey-hide gelatin. Donkey-hide gelatin itself is a gelatin block made from donkey skin after removing the hair. During the production process, a small amount of harmful substances from animal carcasses, such as cadaverine, may remain. , indole and other nitrogen-containing substances, in fact, these symptoms are similar to food poisoning, and Chinese medicine believes that it is the dryness of donkey-hide gelatin, or it is called "fire poison".

So, there is a saying that the older the donkey-hide gelatin gets, the better it gets. It is usually recommended to store donkey-hide gelatin for more than one year before consuming it. But the older it is, the better. If stored for a long time, it will also produce harmful substances to the body.