Children can eat Colla Corii Asini cake, but they should not eat too much, so as not to cause the child to have symptoms such as fire and nosebleed.
Colla Corii Asini is a glue made from donkey skin, which has the effect of tonifying blood, nourishing yin and moistening the lungs. As Colla Corii Asini is sweet in taste and flat in nature, and belongs to the lungs, liver and kidneys meridians, therefore, for the children who are weak and yellowish in color, they can have Colla Corii Asini in small quantities but must not be taken in excess, so as to avoid the children from experiencing the symptoms of catching fire, nosebleeds, dry mouth and nose, constipation, and fever of the hands and the feet, and so on.
Colla Corii Asini is a kind of blood tonic, which can be used for the treatment of blood deficiency (the weakness of the whole body manifested by deficiency of blood and loss of nourishment of the internal organs and veins), hemorrhage, dry cough with deficiency of lung yin, injury of yin by fever, heartburn and insomnia, wind movement with deficiency of yin (deficiency of liver yin and internal movement of wind), and convulsion of the hands and feet (alternating stretching of the hands and feet and incessant twitching) and other diseases.
If you need to give Colla Corii Asini to children, please do so under the guidance of a Chinese medicine practitioner.