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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

Kingdom: Animal

Origin in PRC Pharmacopoeia: Gallus gallus domesticus Brisson. (PRC Pharmacopoeia)

Origin (other sources): Gallus gallus domesticus Brisson*

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.

Warnings: Unsuitable for spleen vacuity without food accumulation and stagnation.

Quality: Large unbroken golden yellow skins are the best.

Product Area: All parts of China.

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