🌿 Folk Prescriptions

Donkey-hide gelatin has a long history of medicinal use and is widely applied in treating conditions such as blood deficiency with yellowish complexion, dizziness and palpitations, muscle weakness, restlessness and insomnia, internal wind due to deficiency, dry cough, chronic cough with hemoptysis, hematemesis, hematuria, melena, metrorrhagia, miscarriage, etc. In recent years, research has revealed many new applications for donkey-hide gelatin.
Thrombocytopenia: High-dose oral administration of donkey-hide gelatin shows significant efficacy in treating thrombocytopenia caused by chemotherapy in late-stage cancer patients. This may be due to the strong stimulatory effect of high-dose donkey-hide gelatin on platelet (PLT) regeneration. It can stimulate bone marrow hematopoietic stem cells, especially megakaryocyte lineage cells, thereby enhancing bone marrow hematopoietic function.
Iron-deficiency anemia: A preparation made from donkey-hide gelatin combined with yellow wine is used—50–100 mL twice daily, one course lasting 60 days. This significantly increases hemoglobin levels. Using donkey-hide gelatin mixed with egg also proves effective for iron-deficiency anemia. Oral donkey-hide gelatin solution has also shown good results in treating pediatric iron-deficiency anemia.
Multiple bleeding disorders: For pulmonary tuberculosis bleeding, 10 g of donkey-hide gelatin is taken once daily after stewing until dissolved. For hematuria, 30 g of donkey-hide gelatin is taken once daily after stewing until dissolved. For dysfunctional uterine bleeding, 15 g of donkey-hide gelatin, plus 6 g each of angelica root, ligusticum, white peony, and raw rehmannia, is taken once daily in two doses, with a course lasting 7–10 days, yielding noticeable results.
Ulcerative cervical lymphadenitis: 200 g of powdered donkey-hide gelatin is sterilized using ultraviolet light at 15–20 biological doses. After debridement and disinfection of ulcers or sinus tracts, the powder is applied directly to the wound or packed into the sinus tract once daily. Improvement becomes evident after about 20 treatments. This method can also treat breast fistulas.
Lower limb ulcers: Applying alcohol-soaked donkey-hide gelatin (rendered into a gel-like consistency) topically to patients with lower limb ulcers yields good results. The gel coating provides moisturizing and nourishing effects locally, promoting gradual growth of fresh granulation tissue and skin, ultimately leading to ulcer healing.