Although Ejiao is supplemented, it is not just to eat it
With the popularization of the concept of health preservation, more and more people like to buy donkey-hide gelatin as a gift, especially during the Spring Festival, a traditional Chinese festival. Ejiao has become an ideal choice for people to nourish their bodies, honor their parents, and visit relatives and friends.
But how should we take it reasonably to give full play to its health care effect?
As famous as ginseng and deer antler
Ejiao has nine functions
Ejiao has been listed as the top grade in the ancient "Shen Nong's Materia Medica". With the evolution of history, Ejiao has been recorded in the herbal medicines of all dynasties, and the "Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China" has also included it.
Donkey-hide gelatin is a holy medicine for nourishing blood.
This product is a solid glue made from the dried or fresh skins of equine donkeys by decoction and concentration.
Ejiao comes in rectangular, square or diced shape.
Dark brown, shiny.
It is hard and brittle, with a bright section, and the fragments are brown and translucent when viewed from light.
Gas micro, sweet, flat.
Return to the lung, liver and kidney meridians.
It has the effect of nourishing blood to stop bleeding, nourishing yin and moistening dryness.
For blood deficiency and chlorosis, dizziness and palpitations, it is the main medicine for blood deficiency.
It can be used for patients with vomiting blood, blood in the stool, metrorrhagia, cough due to yin deficiency, insomnia due to deficiency of yin, and fever due to yin deficiency.
Modern pharmacological studies have found that donkey-hide gelatin has 9 major effects:
Correct blood loss anemia.
Reduce the side effects such as leukopenia and low immunity caused by chemotherapy in cancer patients.
Improve cellular immunity and humoral immunity, showing a positive regulatory effect.
Anti-shock, dilate blood vessels, shorten activated partial prothrombin time, increase platelet count, and reduce the permeability of diseased blood vessels.
Increase serum calcium and phosphorus levels.
The symptoms of dystrophic muscular claudication were gradually relieved.
Improve fatigue resistance, cold resistance and hypoxia resistance.
It has protective effect on the damage of ultrastructure and function of neurons in hippocampal CA3 area caused by lead.
It can promote the growth of normal flora and maintain the microecological balance of the body.
Eating gelatin is contraindicated
These people need to be careful
Although Ejiao can nourish the body and is often added to food, there are still many ways to take Ejiao, and eating it incorrectly will hurt the body.
Ejiao has been produced in East Shandong since ancient times, please choose authentic medicinal materials, the effect is good;
Not to be taken during a cold;
The dosage is three to nine grams. It is recommended to start with the smallest amount at the beginning, and it should be taken before meals and before going to bed;
Use with caution in patients with weak spleen and stomach, vomiting and diarrhea, abdominal distension, loose stools, and cough with excessive phlegm;
After taking it, if you have stomach fullness and do not want to eat, you should stop taking it;
During menstruation, it should be taken as appropriate according to your own constitution;
While taking donkey-hide gelatin, do not drink tea or eat radish;
Pregnant women, children, patients with hypertension, coronary heart disease and diabetes should take it under the guidance of a physician;
If you take a lot of western medicine, or you are taking laxative traditional Chinese medicine, you should not take it; the new product has dryness, it is recommended to store it properly for one year, and check that the properties have not changed before taking it, and it is not easy to get angry.
Do it yourself
Eating a new pattern of donkey-hide gelatin
In addition to the common Ejiao paste and Ejiao oral liquid on the market, there are many ways to take Ejiao, you may as well try it yourself.
Ejiao Jelly Ejiao 250g, smashed.
Put it into a soup pot or a porcelain bowl with a lid, add 250g of rice wine, soak for 1-2 days until soft, add 250g of rock sugar, add 100ml of water, cover, steam in a water bath until completely melted, take it out and let it cool and store in the refrigerator.
Take one tablespoon each morning and evening with warm water.
In addition, when the water bath is completely steamed, add the fried black sesame seeds and walnut kernels and continue to steam for 10 minutes.
Ejiao porridge with 100 grams of rice or millet, 15 grams of Ejiao (smashed), and 50 grams of rock sugar to make porridge and take it.
Mash 400 grams of Ejiao, add 1500ml of rice wine, and slowly boil over the fire. When the Ejiao is completely melted, turn off the fire and use it for bottling.
Take the milk powder and crush the donkey-hide gelatin into fine powder. Take a spoonful of donkey-hide gelatin powder (about 3 to 4g) each time and put it into the cup. According to personal taste, add hot milk, soy milk, etc. (above 80 ℃) while stirring to make Take donkey-hide gelatin powder after it is fully dissolved.
Stewed products are stewed with chicken, stewed with fish, and stewed with red ginseng and jujube.
Text / Zhang Hongwei (Beijing Jishuitan Hospital)