The reasons why there is no substitute are as follows: Let me share my understanding with you:
1, Ejiao is a rubber block made of donkey skin, which is generally black or dark black, bright and transparent without obvious fishy smell. Ejiao has a clear regulation that it can only be boiled with donkey skin;
2. The production time of Ejiao is generally from June 5438+00 to May of the following year. Put the donkey skin into a big container, soak it in clear water to soften it, cut it into small pieces after removing the donkey hair, soak it again to make it white, and then cook it in a glue pot, which is roughly such a process;
3. Ejiao can only be boiled with donkey skin, not cowhide or horse skin? Let's talk about the history of Ejiao first. Before the Song Dynasty, Ejiao used cowhide for some time, but cowhide played an extremely important military role in ancient wars, which led to the official order to strictly control cowhide and prohibit trading. After this incident, Ejiao was smashed into donkey skin;
4. After the establishment of New China, the raw material of Ejiao was designated as donkey skin only, and the China Pharmacopoeia also stipulated that the raw material of Ejiao could only be donkey skin;
5. I once read a comment from a netizen. In ancient times, there was also a tradition of boiling donkey-hide gelatin with cowhide. So now it can only be counted as fake Ejiao, and the effect may be worse. However, if donkey-hide gelatin is cooked with materials such as horse skin or old skin, it has no practical effect, and I don't know if it will have a bad effect on the body after eating it.
6. From the consumers who eat Ejiao, since they choose to eat Ejiao, there is no need to find a substitute. Even if there are substitutes, their efficacy may be slightly different. Of course, everyone may consider the economic cost of purchasing Ejiao, but when we have a demand for a certain kind of Chinese medicine, what everyone considers most is the therapeutic effect, and how much money is the weakest in this process, because health is what everyone thinks;
7. Ejiao is also a nutritional product. My personal feeling is this. The psychological effect is greater than the physiological effect. Are we short of nutrition now? I don't think so. There may be some overnutrition. Doing more exercise may be the inevitable choice of our time. Consuming excess calories in the body is better than eating anything, and it doesn't cost money.
8. The ultimate goal of choosing substitutes may be to spend as little money as possible, but I feel that the reason why Ejiao is so expensive still has certain cost considerations. If it is replaced by cheap pigskin, the pharmacological action of this Chinese medicine may be completely different.
Finally, I still want to say a few words. Is there any good substitute for Ejiao? Chinese medicine is no better than western medicine. As long as the prescription of western medicine has passed the patent period, other manufacturers can use this prescription to produce western medicine with the same curative effect for free. However, in the production process, its raw materials have to be produced according to the contents formulated in the formula.