Colla Corii Asini is a familiar herbal medicine, but how much do you know about its efficacy, its benefits to diabetic patients and how to take it effectively? Here we introduce to you one by one. Gum is also known as “ponfu gum” and “donkey skin gum”, which is the skin of donkeys in the horse family, boiled and made into a gum block after bleaching and removing the hair. In ancient times, it was produced in Dong’a (now Dong’a County, Shandong Province) and got its name. Health effects: Colla Corii Asini is sweet and flat, and belongs to the lung, liver and kidney meridians. It is moist and sticky in nature, which can not only nourish blood and stop bleeding, but also nourish Yin and moisten the lung. It is used for various bleeding disorders such as coughing up blood, blood in stool, vomiting blood, etc.; improving dizziness, palpitations and weakness after blood loss; improving insomnia, coughing and asthma after deficiency labor, as well as calming the fetus. In modern research, Agaricus is more effective than iron in the growth rate of hemoglobin and red blood cells; it has a counteracting effect on shock caused by blood loss; it can promote the absorption of calcium and has a positive calcium balance effect; it has the effect of promoting the transformation of lymphocytes in healthy people; it can dilate blood vessels, especially in veins; it also has a compensatory expansion effect; platelet count also increases significantly, etc. Note: Some of the effects reported in western medical research are limited to animal experiments. For diabetic patients with anemia, palpitations, dry cough, coughing up blood, postpartum blood deficiency, etc., it is recommended to use it under the guidance of a doctor. For diabetes mellitus combined with insomnia, if it belongs to heart fire on inflammation and heart blood deficiency, a Chinese dietary therapy formula can be used: Huang Lian 3g, Bai Shao 6g, Agaricus 5g, and 1 egg. First, decoct 500 ml of water with Huang Lian and Bai Shao, remove the dregs, put in Agaricus blazei, remove the white and take the yellow of the egg, stir it into the juice. Take it at bedtime for 7 days. It has the effect of nourishing blood, calming the mind and clearing heat and fire.