Chicken Gizzard Skin, Ji Nei Jin 鸡内金 Ji Nei Jin (TCM)Qalzah (Arabic)Sangdana Murgh (Unani) Dioscorides Materia Medica, Mathias, 1563 Dried Chicken Gizzard skin (Unani)(Calcutta Unani College, Adam, 2019) Prepared Chicken Gizzard skin (TCM)(Chengdu Medicine Market, Adam, 2016) Zoological name: Gallus domesticus (Gallus gallus var. domesticus) Parts used: Prepared Chicken Gizzard skin Temperature & Taste: Neutral/Slightly Warm, Sweet Classification: 3F. LITHONTRIPTIC TCM:O. Promote Digestion Uses: 1. Warms the Stomach, Promotes Digestion (TCM, West): -Food Stagnation with poor appetite with or without constipation. (TCM)–Vomiting and diarrhea due to indigestion (Chinese Pharmacopoeia)-promotes digestion, used for nausea, indigestion, poor appetite.-‘benefit the Spleen and Middle Warmer, in addition to the promotion of digestion, appetite, the muscles and bones’. (TCM)-especially for Indigestion with Stomach weakness where Nutrition is not absorbed (Unani)-Vomiting of Pregnancy.-‘indigestion caused by alcoholism’. (Li Shi Zhen)-strengthens the Stomach, stop Vomiting and fluxes [diarrhea]. (Salmon)-“corroborates the Stomach, flops Fluxes”. (Medicinalis Hibernica, K’eogh, 1739) 2. Clears Heat and Damp, Clears Stones (West, TCM): -Stones and Gravel from the urinary tract, and of the Gall-Bladder.-a tincture has been used for Gall Stones.-also for the Strangury and painful urination associated with Stones-‘Urinary dripping with intolerable pain’. (Yi Lin Ji Yao, TCM)-Jaundice. 3. Stops Leakages (TCM, West): -an astringent…

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