Elk antlers, velvet, fat medicinal functions in the medicine of the ancient books have long been recorded, 2000 years ago, China's earliest pharmacological monograph "Shennong Ben Cao Jing" in the elk fat main canker sores, sores and dead muscle, cold wind and wet paralysis, limb contractures do not receive, and through the coupling. The famous doctor "said: elk fat treatment of juvenile gas and sores and blisters, the fat coated. Elk horn sweet and hot, non-toxic, scraping chips boiled with wine service, great benefit to people. Tang "Newly Revised Materia Medica" said: to supplement the deficiency of the five organs of the gas. Sun Simiao "Thousand Gold Formula" to elk horn-based elk horn pills have 110 parties (Note: the same name, different drugs, different) a party from the "three causes of the formula", the treatment of five impotence, skin slow hair exhaustion, blood withered, thin skin, weak muscles and bones, diet tasteless, limb weakness, claws withered hair fall, eyes faint lips dry. Another party for Peng Zu elk horn pill, so that people are strong and ageless, housework does not strain, qi color does not fade, no more than the elk horn, but also for the end of a single simmering wine service, but also people do not grow old. Song "evidence class spare herbs" contained: elk horn power Hong Yu deer, Tang Fang and said: winter solstice, a sun, elk horn solution, summer solstice, a yin, antlers solution, each chasing the yin and yang. Also said: elk horn from birth to firm only two months, the big one more than twenty pounds, its firm as stone, a day and night to rise a few two, where the bone and so on growth is not faster than this ....... Plum deer antler is good for Yang, elk antler is good for Yin ....... Song "Taiping Sheng Hui Fang" in the elk horn pill formula has five, are to elk horn for the king drug. Song "General Records of Sheng Ji" has elk antler cream pill. Gui Yilin's "World Medical get effective formula" and "Yang's family collection of formula" contain elk horn, antler and use the "two to pill" (Note: Qing - Wang Ang's "Medical Fang Jie Jie Jie" with the winter green seeds (chasteberry), dry lotus herb, etc., plus mulberry cream is also known as the "two to pill", is the same name of the different medicines. (All take the summer solstice to pick dry lotus grass, winter solstice to pick holly seeds, and the elk "two solstice" meaning the same) elk two solstice pill effect is to make up for the loss of vitality, the birth of essence and blood, to go to the wind and dampness, strong sinews and bones ....... The main treatment for the elderly weakness, kidney qi deficiency, waist and knee pain ....... Pointed out that the warmth of this formula is more macro, in addition to the use of kidney deficiency waist pain, all of the kidney yang, kidney yin deficiency, essence and blood insufficiency, can be cured, because of this formula is mostly pungent warm and hot products, such as long service should be discretionary with the cooked land, angelica and other products to support the yin and blood supplement, in order to prevent injury to the yin. Ming Li Shizhen, "Compendium of Materia Medica", "deer antler Yang, the right kidney essence is not enough for those who are appropriate; elk antler Yin, left kidney blood is not enough for those who are appropriate, this is a thousand years of the secret. Also said that the elk sex is er obscene fast, should not be atrophied human yin. A dialect may not be close to the yin, so that the yin does not wither. Pointed out that: "although the former method, but the reason has not been issued, so the theorists have different opinions, Yang's two to the pill two horns and use, but its medicinal properties are too warm, only suitable for the yang deficiency of cold and wet blood paralysis ear, in the left kidney with no". Sun Simiao "Thousand Gold Formula" said "Elkhorn Pills where 110 square, now look at its formula than the two to the pill seems to be often served, Elkhorn Pills fill the heart and soul, safe internal organs, fill the bone marrow, the waist and feet, can be a long time to stand, smart ears and bright eyes, hair white and black, look old and also less".

Qing Dynasty medical practitioners in compliance with the Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming former sage of the medical books, elk antlers, velvet with the Sika deer antlers, velvet along the medicine for more than two thousand years. The Qing dynasty secret formula unique "northern elk antler Ankun Zanyu Pill", the main treatment of women's menstrual disorders, long time not pregnant and childbearing and other evidence is very effective. Zhou Zhilin, "Materia Medica Usage Study" contains: quoted Qing - Zhang Lu (Shi Niao) said: "elk meat cold, eating people wither, and elk antler great benefit to the vagina, in order to its yang essence are gathered in the horn, its horn boiling gum is better than antlers, but the deer's horns antler complement Yang, right kidney essence of Qi insufficiency of the person should be. Elk antler complement Yin, the left kidney blood deficiency is appropriate." This theory may be derived from Li Shizhen.

The end of the Qing Dynasty, because of the elk horn, velvet antler source of medicine is becoming increasingly rare. Especially in 1900 after the extinction of the elk in China, more cut off the source of medicine. The end of the Qing Dynasty to 1949 decades, although still producing and selling "northern elk antler Ankun Zanyu Pills", but the actual has been forced to use the horse deer antler instead of the preparation of green hair.

Modern medicine has proved that it contains a variety of amino acids, vitamins, trace elements, hormones and other beneficial to human health. It has the effect of improving immune function, anti-fatigue, anti-aging, enhancing resistance to disease, and improving physical fitness. It has been detected that elk antler and horn contain estradiol female hormone. Phosphorus, calcium content than the plum deer antler more than double the gynecologist Chai Songyan director of the application of low estrogen amenorrhea, infertility, menopausal syndrome, clinical evidence that there is indeed a better efficacy. This provides a modern scientific basis for the thesis of good Yin tonic contained in ancient literature.

In summary, the elk antlers, velvet (including other parts) has been used in medicine for more than a thousand years, only because of the 1900 "natural and man-made disasters" led to the extinction of the elk, and was forced to continue to medicinal use. Nowadays, there are precedents of using artificially bred elk abroad (for meat and hunting objects). In our country, no need to kill, only use its horns, antlers into medicine, when it is common sense. If not utilized, natural shedding is discarded waste, a pity.

Now, because of the elk antlers are not utilized, relying on the state to support the limited allocation of elk protection business units due to the lack of economic compensation, it is difficult to further expand the elk population to provide the basic conditions of existence, development is limited, and even the formation of a vicious circle.

Accordingly, should be realistic about things that have changed, suggesting that the medical profession colleagues, to participate in the seminar demonstration, to obtain *** knowledge: the relevant authorities should make a decision as soon as possible. Approved the restoration of elk antlers and velvet continue to be used for medicinal purposes, the corresponding income of the National Pharmacopoeia, which is conducive to the development of traditional Chinese medicine and the breeding of elk, and better for the sustainable development of human health and wildlife conservation services.