SOURCE: Experience of Dietitian
INGREDIENTS
Donkey-hidc gelatin, Colla Corii Asini (Ejiao) 30g
Glutinous rice, Semen Oryzae Glutinosae 60g
Brown sugar a bit
PROCESS: First, make gruel with glutinous rice; put in donkey-hide gelatin (pounded into pieces) when the gruel is about to be done; stir to mix it thoroughly while cooking until it boils two or three times.
DIRECTIONS: Take it in the morning on an empty stomach.
EFFICACY: Nourishing the blood and treating syndromes of deficiency, arresting bleeding and preventing abortion.
INDICATIONS: Scanty menstruation, Intermenstrual Bleeding, threatened abortion in women due to blood deficiency; cough due to consumption, hemoptysis due to Asthma, or spitting blood, epistaxis and hematochezia.
PRECAUTIONS: This kind of gruel should be taken intermittently; taking it without intermission may easily cause fullness sensation in the chest and shortness of breath; those who suffer from weakness of the spleen and stomach and insufficiency of yang and qi should not take such gruel.