How to identify genuine and fake velvet pieces
The velvet piece is usually congratulations or oval in shape, with a diameter of 1~4 cm, and the piece is extremely thin. The skin is reddish brown. The sawing surface is yellowish white to brownish yellow, with obvious annular bone around, dark color, honeycomb pores inside, widened or sunken in the middle, and brown in some parts. Light, hard and brittle. The smell is slightly fishy and salty.
Generally speaking, velvet antler pieces are superior products with light weight, honeycomb cross-section and dense tissue.
In the modern medical commodity market, the slices of velvet antler are often cut near the top, called blood slices.
The blood section is about 1 mm thick, honey-colored, slightly ruddy and smooth on one side.
What is cut at the lower part of velvet antler is called vermicelli.
The thickness of the vermicelli is about 1. 5 mm, off-white, powdery, single-sided, with pores, purple-black skin and fishy smell.
The sand piece is close to the bone end, with rough single surface and honeycomb pores.
Blood tablets are very effective and expensive, followed by powder tablets, which are also cheaper, followed by sand tablets. The quality of bone chips is worse than that of sand chips.
Modern pharmacologists have found through pharmacochemical analysis that the extract from the top of velvet antler has the highest biological activity, and the surface tissue cells of velvet antler are less mature as they get closer to the top, and the top of pith is covered with large and long spindle cells. The biological activity of pilose antler base is the lowest, while the chemical composition and content in the middle can basically represent the average value of the whole pilose antler.
At present, there are three kinds of fake cashmere pieces on the market.
① Replace with antlers.
② Wrap the flour with pigskin and slice the pig blood mixture.
(3) The outer skin is genuine velvet pieces filled with other substances.
How to identify antlers with naked eyes
1, the velvet piece is round and half-crescent, while the genuine piece is only round.
2. Antlers are highly keratinized, and even have dentate protrusions, while genuine antlers are low in keratinization and have no protrusions.
3. The periphery of the bone piece is white and the middle part is burnt yellow, but the genuine piece will not have a white periphery.
4. The holes of bone chips are large and often broken, and some holes are full of dark brown.
In addition, the water test method can also be used for identification. Real deer antler slices will not deform in water, will not break when heated and stirred, and will not soften and paste when boiled.
How to eat velvet antler
First, velvet antler is soaked in wine.
Medicinal liquor is a great tradition in China. Soak the medicine in white wine, and the essence of the medicine will penetrate into the wine. The wine will help to promote qi circulation, and the medicine will soon play a role and spread all over the body. Pilose antler can also be added to wine. Soak the antler slices in 50-degree white wine for a period of time, and then you can drink them. Other medicinal materials can also be added for soaking as needed. China Chihuo. com cookbook says that the velvet antler soaked in wine must be raw, so medicinal liquor is more effective.
Second, pilose antler cooking
Dietotherapy is a good way to keep fit, and tonics such as velvet antler are good ingredients. Adding pilose antler and other medicinal materials, such as chicken, duck, goose or pork, to stew with slow fire and drink with its soup also has a strong nourishing effect. Not only can you make soup, but velvet antler can also be ground into powder and added to other dishes.
Third, make medicinal tea.
Herbal tea therapy is one of the traditional Chinese medicine therapies. Because velvet antler itself can be very thin, it can be directly made into tea to drink, and finally chewed and swallowed. As a health tea, it is better to take a single medicine, 3 ~ 5g of pilose antler, which can be taken every other day instead of every day. It will help to persist for a few months. The therapeutic dose of tea, ginseng and pilose antler used to treat diseases can be increased appropriately, or as directed by doctors.
Fourthly, velvet antler grinding.
If you don't have time to make wine and soup, there is another way to solve everyone's troubles. That is, velvet antler is ground into fine powder and taken with wine or salt water before going to bed at night. Convenient and effective.
Five, decoction porridge
Medicinal porridge for health care and dietotherapy has been circulating in China for a long time. As early as the pre-Qin period, it was recorded that medicinal porridge was used to treat diseases.
Under the guidance of the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine, it is an ideal dietotherapy method to take pilose antler and ginseng as the main raw materials, add other nourishing drugs, mix with rice grains, and add appropriate seasonings to cook porridge together.
Sixth, swallowing powder
Cornu Cervi Pantotrichum can be directly dried and processed into powder, or ready-made cornu Cervi Pantotrichum powder can be purchased from pharmacies, packed into hollow capsules prepared in advance, placed in a closed container and placed in a cool and ventilated place. Take 1 ~ 2 capsules with boiling water every time, or directly put the powder in your mouth and take it with other potions, porridge or warm water.
Suitable crowd for velvet antler
1, middle-aged and elderly people. Middle-aged men over 40 years old and elderly people with poor physique, eating velvet antler can replenish qi and blood, strengthen heart pulse, remove blood stasis and promote granulation, and strengthen tendons and bones.
2. People who are afraid of cold. People who are afraid of the cold often have yang deficiency, and velvet antler is the symptomatic warming.
3. Sexual function declines. Pilose antler can restore and promote energy and sexual function, and is mainly used to treat kidney-yang deficiency, backache, nocturnal emission, frequent urination and other symptoms.
4. Overworked young people. Pilose antler has the functions of producing sperm, replenishing marrow, nourishing brain, calming nerves and enhancing human immunity. It is suitable for patients with blood deficiency, dizziness, tinnitus, insomnia, amnesia and hyperhidrosis anemia.
5, there is ulceration. Pilose antler has good myogenic and anti-inflammatory effects.
6. Middle-aged women. Cornu Cervi Pantotrichum can treat gynecological diseases such as uterine weakness, metrorrhagia, leukorrhagia, postpartum anemia, infertility due to uterine cold, etc.
Pilose antler is not suitable for people to eat.
1. It is not suitable for people with yin deficiency constitution diagnosed as low fever, night sweats, fever of hands and feet, dry mouth and throat, and flushing of cheeks, as well as patients with hypertension, coronary heart disease, liver and kidney diseases, various fevers and hemorrhagic diseases to take velvet antler.
2, there are "five upset hot" symptoms, people with yin deficiency.
3, urinate Huang Chi, dry throat or dry pain, from time to time feel thirsty and have symptoms of getting angry.
4. Women with frequent nosebleeds or heavy menstrual flow have bright red blood, red tongue and thin pulse, which is manifested as blood heat.
5. People with cold, headache, stuffy nose, fever, chills, cough and phlegm.
6. People with high blood pressure, dizziness, unstable walking, dizzy pulse and irritability.
After reading my explanation above, you know how to eat velvet antler now. Scope of Application Because velvet antler has the effects of invigorating primordial energy, producing sperm and marrow, strengthening tendons and bones, nourishing internal organs and skin, it is suitable for impotence, slippery, soreness of waist and knees, frequent urination, dizziness and tinnitus, female asthenic cold, metrorrhagia and emaciation, etc., and it has the function of nourishing qi and blood.