Wiseman’s Chinese Medical Database

jī nèi jīn / 鸡内金 / 雞內金 / gizzard lining;

Latin pharmacognostic name: Galli Gigeriae Endothelium Corneum

Alternate English names: chicken's gizzard lining

Alternate Chinese names: 鸡肫内黄皮 jī zhūn huáng pí; 鸡肫皮 jī zhūn pí; 鸡食皮 jī shí pí; 鸡合子 jī hé zǐ; 鸡中金 jī zhōng jīn

Origin: Animal

Use: medicinal

Category: Food-dispersing agents

Properties: Sweet; balanced.

Channel entry: spleen, stomach, bladder, and small intestine channels.

Indications:

• Disperses food and fortifies the spleen: Indigestion; food accumulation; child gān accumulation patterns.
• Secures essence and checks emission: Enuresis or seminal emission.
• Frees strangury and transforms stones: Sand or stone strangury and biliary calculus. For this application, it is often used with jīn qián cǎo (金钱草 Lysimachiae Herba, moneywort;).

Dosage & Method:

Oral: 3–10g in decoctions; it is more effective taken as a powder than as a decoction; for this, use 1.5–3g per dose.

Warning:

Unsuitable for spleen vacuity without food accumulation and stagnation.

Quality:

Large unbroken golden yellow skins are the best.

Product Area:

All parts of China.