There are many ways to take ginseng antler. Family tonic aims at medical care. You can choose convenient, affordable and effective methods according to your own economic situation, diet, working environment and usual habits. If you travel, you can always put ginseng slices in your mouth, which can eliminate fatigue and make people feel refreshed. Those who like drinking can choose medicinal liquor, those who like drinking tea can make medicinal tea, and those who have no hobbies can make ginseng and pilose antler medicated diet. There are several ways to take ginseng antler:
(1) Making Medicinal Tea
Herbal tea therapy is one of the traditional Chinese medicine therapies. This method has the advantages of simple manufacture and rapid attraction. Usually, ginseng is wrapped in a clean wet cloth for about half a day to make it soft, then cut into thin slices and dried or dried in the sun. When in use, at least 35 tablets or more than 10 tablets are put into a teacup, brewed with boiling water, covered, and soaked in warm water for a few minutes, so that it can be used as tea, or mixed with other nourishing drugs with sweet taste and drunk while brewing. After soaking for many times until the decoction is tasteless, the ginseng residue can be chewed and swallowed. As for ginseng strips and ginseng whiskers, as long as they are slightly broken, they can be directly soaked and taken. Clean ginseng leaves can be soaked by rubbing until they break. Ginseng flowers can be taken directly in water. Comparatively speaking, the dosage of ginseng beard, ginseng leaf and ginseng flower is larger, otherwise, the efficacy will be much inferior. Because the product of pilose antler itself is relatively thin, it can be directly brewed into tea for drinking, and finally chewed and swallowed. As a kind of health-care medicinal tea, the dosage of ginseng is about 2 grams per day, and that of pilose antler is 0.3 ~ 0.5 grams. You can drink it every other day instead of eating it every day. It will help to persist for a few months. The therapeutic dose of tea, ginseng and pilose antler used to treat diseases can be increased appropriately, or as directed by doctors.
(2) Chewing with chemicals
As mentioned above, ancient physicians had the practice of tasting Korean ginseng to judge its authenticity. Qi deficiency contains chewing red ginseng and yin deficiency contains chewing American ginseng. This method of chewing with chemicals has been favored by people since ancient times. It is reported that Empress Dowager Cixi often chews American ginseng and swallows Tianjin to prolong life. Tolerance is not limited by location, conditions and environment. The specific method is: cut ginseng or American ginseng into thin slices, dry it in the sun and put it in a clean bottle. Take one or two tablets at a time, put them under the tongue, soak them thoroughly with saliva, and then swallow the body fluid. It is slightly bitter at first, then sweet, until the taste of the medicine is weak, and then chewed and swallowed. It is more suitable to take ginseng whiskers, ginseng strips and velvet antler by chewing. For dosage, please refer to making medicinal tea strips.
(3) Boiling pharmaceutical porridge
Medicinal porridge for health care and dietotherapy has been circulating in China for a long time. As early as the pre-Qin period, it was recorded that medicinal porridge was used to treat diseases. Under the guidance of the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine, it is an ideal dietotherapy method to take ginseng and pilose antler as the main raw materials, add other nourishing drugs, add rice grains, and add appropriate seasonings to cook porridge together. There are usually two methods to make ginseng and pilose antler porridge: one is to directly decoct ginseng and pilose antler slices with japonica rice in water, cook porridge and eat it, and finally chew and swallow ginseng and pilose antler residue; The other is to process ginseng or pilose antler into powder, add a little powder when eating porridge in the morning or evening, and mix well before using. When ginseng powder 10g is used as health porridge, it can be taken 10 ~ 15 times. 1 g pilose antler powder is taken 2 ~ 3 times.
(4) decocted ointment
The decoction is repeatedly decocted, concentrated and mixed with honey (or crystal sugar and brown sugar) to form a thick paste, which is customarily called "paste prescription nourishing" because of its good nourishing effect.
Cream usually takes honey as excipient. Honey not only has good taste correction effect, but also has nourishing and nutritional value. In addition, honey has a certain antiseptic effect after blending. The general practice of the cream is to put ginseng or pilose antler (generally not used alone, the dosage of the compound should be in accordance with the doctor's advice) and other health-preserving and nourishing drugs into two pots respectively, soak them in cold water for 1 ~ 2 hours, then add water about 10 cm higher than the surface of the medicine, simmer for one hour, and filter out the decoction, which is the first decoction. According to this method, the decoction time can be shorter than that of the first decoction, the second and third decoctions are collected respectively, then the residues are squeezed out with clean gauze, the three decoctions are combined with the squeezed liquid medicine, the supernatant is filtered with gauze for half a day, then the supernatant is concentrated to about 500 ml with strong fire, then the same amount of honey is added, and the ointment is obtained by decocting with slow fire until it drops into beads. Ginseng antler fried residue can be chewed. Then put the boiled cream into a clean dark bottle, store it in a cool and dry place, or put it in the refrigerator. This cream is very convenient to take. Take 1 ~ 2 spoonfuls of clean food each time, take it with boiling water, or put it directly in your mouth. In order to keep the paste from deteriorating for a long time, it is best to add an appropriate amount of preservatives.
(5) soaking medicinal liquor
Medicinal liquor has a history of thousands of years in China, and it is very popular because it is easy to preserve. Medicinal liquor is made by soaking drugs in Chinese liquor with 50% ~ 70% (50 ~ 70℃) ethanol as solvent. This medicated wine is flavored with more sugar or honey. Ancient physicians highly praised medicinal liquor, because liquor itself is a blind medicine and can cure diseases. It has the functions of dredging blood vessels, strengthening spleen, thickening stomach, moistening skin, dispelling cold and promoting drug efficacy. Wine is also a good solvent. There are countless kinds of ginseng medicinal liquor on the market, and it is also convenient to make ginseng medicinal liquor at home. It is more suitable to make medicinal liquor by cold soaking. The specific method is to put ginseng or pilose antler, or a compound containing other drugs, into a bottle, add 500 ~ 1000 ml of white wine, seal and store it, and shake the bottle every two or three days to make its effective components fully precipitate, which usually takes half a month to drink. According to the usual amount of alcohol, the amount of alcohol consumed each time ranges from 10 to 50 ml. If the amount of alcohol is not large, you can also dilute a small amount of medicinal liquor with twice the amount of boiling water and drink it. After the soaked medicinal liquor is finished, you can continue to add about 1000 ml of white wine, and then soak it until it tastes tasteless. It is worth pointing out that it is not appropriate to choose medicinal liquor as a tonic for patients with liver and kidney damage or gastritis and peptic ulcer.
(6) swallowing powder
Pulverizing Ginseng Radix, drying in the sun or oven drying, directly oven drying Cornu Cervi Pantotrichum, and processing into powder, or purchasing ready-made ginseng powder or Cornu Cervi Pantotrichum powder from pharmacies, filling it into hollow capsules prepared in advance, placing it in a closed container, and placing it in a cool place. Take 1 ~ 2 capsules with boiling water every time. You can also put the powder directly into your mouth and take it with other potions, porridge or warm water. Dosage can refer to tea bars.
(7) take steamed rice.
When steaming rice, put clean ginseng slices on the rice. After steaming, ginseng juice naturally penetrates into the rice, and you can chew ginseng slices while eating rice. Don't burn ginseng slices by mistake, so that ginseng loses its efficacy.
(8) Medicinal diet
Medicine and food are homologous, and medicine and food are inseparable. The theories of "dietotherapy" and "food supplement" have always occupied a certain position in health preservation in China and are deeply loved by the people. Medicinal diet is a delicious food, which can prevent and cure diseases, protect health and prolong life through cooking. Medicinal diet, a dietotherapy method advocated by the ancients and adopted by thousands of families, has lasted for thousands of years and has been passed down to this day.
In family medicine, there are many ways to take ginseng and pilose antler, which are often combined with other nourishing drugs, or stewed, simmered, fried and boiled to make soup, cakes, rice, vegetables and so on. It is not only nutritious, but also can prevent and treat diseases and improve health.