Adults usually take Jin Nei Jin in decoction, for food stagnation (indigestion of food and stagnation in the stomach) that does not dissolve, it can be combined with hawthorn, etc., for spermatorrhea, it can be combined with Gorgon fruit, etc., and for urination, it can be combined with cuttlebone.
Chicken Neijin has the effects of eliminating food and strengthening stomach, stopping seminal emission and astringing spermatozoa, resolving stones and clearing gonorrhea. It is used in treating food stagnation, diarrhea, vomiting, noma (a kind of chronic disease of children, manifesting as emaciation, abnormal diet, abdominal distension, thinning and yellowing of hair, etc.), spermatorrhea, dysuria, stonelike gonorrhea (discharging gravel during urination, or sudden interruption of urination, pain in urethra, intolerable pain in the lower back and abdomen), and astringent pain.
It is usually taken as a decoction in soup or as a powder, and the dosage is in accordance with the recommended dosage of the pharmacopoeia.
Adults can use Jin Nei Jin to treat food accumulation without dissolution, often with Hawthorn, Malt, Shen Qu, etc.; for spermatorrhea, with Cuscuta, Lotus, Gorgon fruit, etc.; for dysuria, dyspareunia, with Cuttlebone, Oyster, Raspberry, etc., and for stonelike gonorrhea, with Hai Jin Sha, Qiang Qian Cao, etc..
It should be taken with caution for those with spleen deficiency and no accumulation, and should be used in the above mentioned diseases by doctor’s prescription.