Sika deer are all treasures, and velvet antler, deer blood, venison, deer heart and deerskin all have certain medicinal and economic values, especially the medicinal value of sika deer. There are countless records of sika deer used as medicine in various medical classics in China. It has obvious effects on invigorating spleen and qi, promoting human blood circulation and regulating nervous system.

With the improvement of people's living conditions, medical care issues have also received more attention. There are many ways to maintain health, and diet conditioning is a common one.

Speaking of healthy diet, I have to say velvet antler, which has many benefits to the human body. When it comes to velvet antler, it can be generally divided into dry velvet antler and fresh velvet antler. So, generally speaking, which is better, dried velvet antler or fresh velvet antler?

People often see dried antler. Dry velvet antler is made by frying the collected fresh velvet antler in boiling water and then baking it in an oven at high temperature. This is repeated for more than ten times to make dried velvet antler for slicing or grinding, while velvet antler blood is dried at high temperature to make blood powder.

Dried velvet antler is made from fresh velvet antler by boiling, frying and drying. The purpose of drying is to facilitate storage and transportation, or to process it into other dosage forms (such as pilose antler powder capsules). ). Although the traditional processing method of dried velvet antler can be dehydrated and preserved, which effectively prolongs the preservation time of velvet antler and blood, a considerable amount of nutrients, especially a large number of precious active proteases, are inevitably lost during the processing.

Although we often see and eat dried velvet antler in our daily life, fresh velvet antler is better in terms of nutritional value and pharmacological action. Therefore, for those who have the conditions, it is advisable to eat fresh velvet antler often when they are in good health. It is also pilose antler, which is much more effective than dried pilose antler.

Deer products are warm tonics with the same origin of medicine and food, but when eating deer supplements, we should also avoid some other foods that conflict with the medicinal properties of deer products. For example, cold food and spicy food ingredients are prohibited when taking deer products, radish, tea and coffee are not allowed when taking deer products, and it is not allowed to be taken together with traditional Chinese medicine preparations of Trogopterori, Gleditsia sinensis, Veratrum nigrum and the above products.