Can pregnant women take donkey hide gelatin? Donkey hide gelatin is made from donkey skin through soaking, boiling, filtering, concentration and other processing methods. It is named after it is native to Dong'e County, Shandong Province. As early as the "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" written in the Han Dynasty, there are records about donkey hide gelatin. Through repeated practice, medical scientists and pharmacologists of all ages have discovered many new functions of donkey-hide gelatin and expanded its uses. clinical The scope of application, but donkey-hide gelatin is still mainly used for nourishing yin, nourishing blood, and preventing miscarriage. Modern medical experiments show that donkey-hide gelatin has an effect on hemorrhagic anemia It has a good therapeutic effect on the increase of white blood cells after chemotherapy and tumor diseases, etc. It also has the function of improving calcium balance in animals.
Even though donkey-hide gelatin has a good effect of nourishing yin and replenishing blood, it will have side effects that affect appetite because it is too "greasy". Therefore, when doctors of traditional Chinese medicine prescribe donkey-hide gelatin to patients, they should always take into account its side effects and act with caution. Because donkey-hide gelatin has significant functions of nourishing yin and replenishing blood, it is often used by traditional Chinese medicine, but it must be used properly. For example, if pregnant women and postpartum women have a poor appetite and do not want to eat, the above symptoms may be aggravated after taking donkey-hide gelatin. At this time, some amomum villosum, tangerine peel, etc. should be taken. Some pregnant women and parturient women may have yang deficiency, showing symptoms such as cold and pain in the lower abdomen, soreness and weakness in the waist and knees, excessive leucorrhea, and endless lochia. In this case, donkey-hide gelatin should not be used but Chinese medicine that supports kidney yang should be used.

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