Deer antler

Also known as: antler velvet

Taste: sweet, salty, warm; to the liver, kidney meridian.

Deer antler is a traditional and valuable Chinese medicine, which has been used as a common imperial medicine for tonifying the kidney in the court in ancient times. Deer antler has the tonic effect of strengthening kidney yang and benefiting essence and blood, which can strengthen the body, body, brain and life. Li Shizhen in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" summarizes its effects as: "generating essence and tonifying the marrow, nourishing blood and benefiting the yang, strengthening the tendons and bones, and treating all deficiencies, deafness, darkness of the eyes, dizziness, and dysentery." Modern pharmacological research shows that deer antler also has the regulation of heart rhythm, enhance heart contractility, stabilize blood pressure, increase red blood cells and hemoglobin and prevention of osteoporosis and other effects, can be widely used in different deficiency diseases.

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Deer antler is mainly produced in Jilin, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai and other places. Medicinal parts for the sika deer or horse deer stag head is not ossified dense velvet young antlers, generally in the summer and fall saw off the antlers. Deer antlers in boiling water slightly scalded, dry, and then scalded and then dry, until the blood drain, placed in a cool place after drying prairie antler hair, scraped, wrapped in a cloth belt, into the hot white wine, to moisten through, sliced and dried, that is, for the antler slice; prairie antler hair, scraped and then finely powdered, that is, for the deer antler powder.

Efficacy

Effects strong kidney and Yang, beneficial to the essence and blood, strong muscles and bones, regulating the Chong Ren, convergence of sores and poisons.

These ingredients are used in the treatment of impotence, weakness of muscles and bones, dizziness and tinnitus caused by deficiency of kidney yang and deficiency of essence and blood.

These ingredients are used in the treatment of infertility caused by coldness of uterus, leakage and subluxation caused by deficiency of yang and deficiency of blood, and anemia caused by deficiency of yang.

This ingredient is also used in the treatment of poor growth of children caused by deficiency of essence and blood.

This ingredient is also used in the treatment of ulcerated wounds and wounds caused by suppurative infections.

Identification

The real antler is light, hard and brittle, slightly fishy, salty taste. Usually there are one or two branches, the outer skin reddish brown, more light and moist, the surface is densely covered with reddish-yellow or brownish-yellow fine velvet hairs, the skin and antler are tightly adhered to the antler and are not easy to peel off. Deer antler to thick, quite round, top full, hair fine soft, color red and yellow, skin color reddish brown, have oily luster is good. Deer antler slices are round or oval, about 3 centimeters in diameter, with reddish-brown skin. High-quality antler section is honeycomb, dense tissue. Fake antlers are made of animal fur wrapped in animal bone glue. Fake antler slices are similar to the round, but uneven thickness, diameter 1.5 ~ 3.5 cm, gray-brown skin, short hair. Cut surface brownish-purple, no honeycomb pores, occasionally with dots. The outer fur can be peeled off.

Note

1. Where fever, wind-cold externals, yin deficiency and hyperactivity or Yang Sheng body strong and solid people should not be used, patients with hypertension should not be used. 2. Serving antlers within 1 week of the ban on pig's blood, raw radish, and cold and spicy food. 3. In the service of deer antler, if there is a dry mouth, nosebleeds, red eyes, heartbeat accelerated and other phenomena, you should stop taking it.