Role and efficacy: antler velvet taste sweet, salty, warm. Into the liver, kidney two meridians, with strong kidney yang, replenish qi and blood, benefit the essence of the marrow, strong tendons and bones of the efficacy. It is used for deficiency of essence and blood, dizziness, tinnitus, deafness, impotence, spermatorrhea, lumbar and knee weakness, fontanel incompatibility and other diseases.
Contraindications: It should be avoided in cases of yin deficiency and hyperactivity of yang, heat in the blood, stomach fire or phlegm-heat in the lungs, as well as in cases of exogenous fever. Chinese medicine diagnosed as low fever, night sweats, fever in the hands and feet, dry mouth and throat, two cheekbones flushed with yin deficiency constitution, as well as suffering from hypertension, coronary heart disease, liver and kidney disease, all kinds of febrile illnesses, hemorrhagic disease patients, should not take antler velvet.
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Deer antler identification:
Flowering antler slices: round or suborbicular, 1-5cm in diameter in cross-section; the outer surface of the densely reddish-yellow or brown fine velvet hairs (sometimes visible prairie scars or sharp scars); the outer skin reddish-brown or brown, more glossy; the middle of the yellowish-white, non-osteosynthesized, densely covered with fine holes; light, soft, flexible (sometimes visible small and keratin-like). (sometimes see small and keratin-like pieces of wax); gas slightly fishy, taste slightly salty.
Reindeer antler slices: long oval or oblong, section of the long axis diameter of 1 ~ 5cm, the short axis diameter of 0.5 ~ 2cm; the surface of the antler hair gray-white, sparse, thick and long; the outer skin gray-brown, thick keratinization; the middle of the white or reddish-brown, can be seen from the outside to the inside of the ossification circle is obvious, about 1/2 the diameter of the middle of the honeycomb pore pattern, sparse, hard, inelastic, sometimes transparent; Slight odor.
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