Velvet antler is a fluffy young horn on the head of a stag, such as sika deer or red deer. Cervidae. Location: Jilin, Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Qinghai and other places. There are also artificial farming in other areas. In summer and autumn, when the new horn of stag is not ossified, the horn is sawed off or cut off with a knife, and the hair is removed in time. After slicing, dry in the shade or dry in the sun for medicine.
This medicine tastes sweet, salty and warm. Meridian of kidney and liver.
Efficacy: tonifying kidney yang, nourishing essence and blood, strengthening bones and muscles, regulating chong and ren, and supporting sore and toxin.
App application
1. Deficiency of kidney yang and essence and blood. This product is warm and nourishing yang, sweet and salty in taste, nourishing kidney, pure in yang, and has the qi of hair growth, so it can strengthen yang and benefit essence and blood. For example, kidney-yang deficiency and essence-blood deficiency are manifested as chills, impotence, premature ejaculation, infertility due to palace cold, frequent urination, waist and knee pain, dizziness and tinnitus, mental fatigue and so on. This product can be used alone or mixed with compound prescription. Such as velvet wine, and yam soaked wine, to treat impotence and frequent urination; Or take Danggui Wumei Ointment Pill to treat seminal blood failure, dull complexion, deafness and blindness (Jisheng recipe); It is also often combined with Ginseng, Radix Astragali and Radix Angelicae Sinensis to treat various asthenia, five strains and seven injuries, deficiency of vitality, cold limbs, impotence and premature ejaculation, infertility due to cold uterus, frequent urination, etc. , such as Shen Rong Guben Pill (China Medical Dictionary).
2. Kidney deficiency and weak bones, weak waist and knees or five nights in children. It is often used for tonifying kidney yang, nourishing essence and blood, and strengthening bones and muscles. It is often used with Cortex Acanthopanacis, Radix Rehmanniae and Cornus officinalis, for example, Jiawei Dihuang Pill (Medical Zong Jin Jian). It can also be combined with Rhizoma Drynariae, Radix Dipsaci, and Pyritum to treat poor healing of fracture at later stage.
3. Women shower and have vaginal discharge. This product can tonify kidney yang, nourish essence and blood, strengthen chong and ren, and stop leukorrhagia. Cuttlefish bone, Gulong and Dipsacus can treat metrorrhagia and metrorrhagia, and can overcome thinness with deficiency, such as velvet antler powder (standard of syndrome differentiation and treatment). If it is combined with Ciji and Ampelopsis, it can treat excessive leucorrhea, such as An Baili Pill (Fang Jisheng).
4. Ulcer will not heal for a long time, and abscess and swelling of vulva will not sink in. This product can strengthen yang, benefit essence and blood, and achieve the purpose of warming and nourishing internal branches. It is often combined with Angelica sinensis and Cinnamomum cassia, such as Yanghe Decoction (Surgical Whole Life Collection), which is used to treat chronic ulcers.
Usage and dosage: grind and swallow, 1 ~ 2g, or take pills or powder.
Precautions: Take a small amount of this product and gradually increase it. Do not use it in large quantities suddenly, so as to avoid yang rising, dizziness and red eyes, or yin injury to blood supply. Anyone with a fever should avoid taking it.
Ancient book abstracts
1. Shennong's Herbal Classic: "The main evil blood is drained, cold and heat shock epilepsy, benefiting qi and ambition, and never aging."
2. "Bielu": "Treat fatigue like malaria, overcome thinness, limb pain and back pain, urinate, drain sperm and drown blood."
3. "Compendium of Materia Medica": "Nourish essence and marrow, nourish blood and Yiyang, strengthen tendons and bones. Treat deficiency, deafness, dark eyes, dizziness and dysentery. "
Colla cornus Cervi medicinal antler cream
1. Antlers are ossified horns of sika deer and various stags. It tastes salty and warm. Enter the liver and kidney meridians. Function of tonifying kidney and strengthening yang, strengthening tendons and bones. It can be used as a substitute for velvet antler, but its effect is weak. Promote blood circulation to remove blood stasis and reduce swelling. Clinically, it is mostly used for sores, mastitis, postpartum blood stasis, abdominal pain, low back pain and retained placenta. It can be taken orally or externally. Dosage: 5 ~ 15g, decocted in water or ground into powder. Apply externally by grinding the juice or filing it flat at the end. It is forbidden for those with yin deficiency and excessive fire.
2. Colla cornus Cervi is a gelatinous substance obtained by decocting and concentrating cornu Cervi. Sweet and salty, warm in nature. Enter the liver and kidney meridians. Function nourishing liver and kidney, benefiting essence and blood. Although the drug effect is not as fierce as velvet antler, it is better than velvet antler and has a good hemostatic effect. It is suitable for kidney yang deficiency, essence and blood deficiency, fatigue and emaciation, vomiting and bloody stool, metrorrhagia and metrorrhagia, and yin gangrene invagination. The dose was 5 ~ 15g. Heat with boiling water or yellow wine to melt, or take pills or powder. It is forbidden for those with yin deficiency and excessive fire.
3. Antler cream is the residue of antler cream. It is salty in taste and warm in nature, and enters the liver and kidney meridians. The effect of tonifying kidney and strengthening yang is similar to that of antlers, but it is weak, but it has astringent effect, astringent effect, hemostatic effect and sore healing effect. Oral treatment of metrorrhagia and nocturnal emission, external treatment of traumatic bleeding and chronic ulcer. The dosage is 10 ~ 25g. Appropriate amount for external use. It is forbidden for those with yin deficiency and excessive fire.
Modern research
1. Chemical composition: estradiol, cholesterol, etc. It is separated from the fat-soluble components of velvet antler, among which estradiol and its metabolite estrone are the main components of velvet antler estrogen-like effect. The amino acids in velvet antler are the most abundant, including glycine, neutral sugar and glucosamine. The ash of pilose antler contains calcium, phosphorus and magnesium, and the water extract contains a lot of colloid.
2. Pharmacological effect: large dose of pilose antler essence can reduce contraction amplitude, slow down heart rate, dilate peripheral blood vessels and lower blood pressure. Moderate dose of pilose antler essence can obviously enhance the activity of isolated heart, increase the contraction amplitude and heart rate, which leads to the increase of cardiac pulse output and percentage output. Pilose antler has obvious anti-lipid peroxidation and anti-stress effects.
3. Clinical study: acupoint injection of pilose antler essence is effective in treating impotence (Chinese Medicine Forum 1995,10 (5): 28); Intramuscular injection of pilose antler essence can treat kidney deficiency diarrhea (Jilin Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1985, (2): 22); Oral administration of sea dragon, velvet antler, etc. It can obviously promote the aerobic function and anaerobic function of human body, accelerate the recovery of fatigue after intensive exercise, and has a strong anti-fatigue effect (China Ocean Medicine, 1995, 14 (2): 4 1).
Suitable crowd for velvet antler
First, 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.
The second is people who are afraid of the cold. People who are afraid of the cold often have yang deficiency, and velvet antler is the symptomatic warming.
Third, people with sexual dysfunction. 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.
Fourth, young and middle-aged people who are overtired. Pilose antler has the functions of producing sperm, replenishing marrow, nourishing brain, calming nerves and enhancing human immunity. It is suitable for patients with deficiency of essence and blood, dizziness and tinnitus, insomnia and forgetfulness, hyperhidrosis and anemia.
Fifth, 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.