Chicken's Gizzard Skin (Jineijin)
| Pharmaceutical Name: | Endothelium corneum gigeriae galli |
| Botanical Name: | Gallus gallus domesticus Brisson |
| Common Name: | Chicken’s gizzard skin or lining |
| Source of Earliest Record: | Shu Bencao |
| art Used & Method for Pharmaceutical Preparations: | The inside membrane of the gizzard is peeled off, cleaned and dried in the sun. Then it is ground into powder. |
| Properties and Taste: | Sweet and neutral |
| Meridian: | Spleen, stomach, small intestine and urinary bladder |
| Functions: | To eliminate food retention To transform stones |
| Indications and Combinations: | 1. Indigestion, retention of food and epigastric and abdominal distension and fullness. *Use with Hawthorn fruit (Shanzha) and Germinated barley (Maiya). 2. Infantile weakness of the spleen, including infantile malnutrition. *Use with White atractylodes (Baizhu), Dioscorea (Shanyao) and Poria (Fuling). 3. Gallstones and urinary tract stones. *Use with Lysimachia (Jinqiancao) and Lygodium spores (Haijinsha) in the formula Sanjin Tang. |
| Dosage: | 3-10 g |
| Cautions: | If the herb is prepared as a powder, the dosage each time is 1.5-3 g. |