The Benefits and Effects of Velvet Antler Blood, Its Differences from Velvet Antler, and Who Should Not Consume It

When it comes to velvet antler, everyone is familiar with it and knows it is a Chinese medicinal herb with outstanding tonic benefits, but people know much less about velvet antler blood and do not know what its benefits and effects are, how it differs from velvet antler, or who should not consume it. Below, the editor will walk you through it.

1. What are the benefits and effects of velvet antler blood?

1. Boosting immunity: Velvet antler blood has the effect of invigorating and improving bodily functions, and has a very good health-promoting effect on patients with general weakness or after a long illness. Moreover, velvet antler blood can improve the body's cellular immunity and humoral immune function, and therefore acts as an immune enhancer.

2. Lowering blood pressure: Velvet antler blood is the best medicinal material for people with high blood pressure and can effectively lower blood pressure. Relevant experiments have shown that a large amount of velvet antler blood can slow the heart rate and reduce the amplitude of heart contraction, while also dilating peripheral blood vessels and lowering blood pressure.

3. Strengthening the body: The pantocrine contained in velvet antler blood can improve the human body's working capacity, improve sleep and appetite, and also help reduce muscle fatigue, and can significantly increase oxygen consumption in tissues such as the brain, liver and kidneys.

4. Tonifying qi and blood: Velvet antler blood has the effect of benefiting essence; when essence is abundant, it can transform into qi and generate blood. Tonic medicines seen in daily life, such as Shenrong Guben Pills, Ronggui Baibu Pills and Butian Dazao Pills, all contain components of velvet antler blood, and it can also effectively treat symptoms such as headache and bleeding gums.

5. Strengthening the heart and restoring the pulse: Velvet antler blood has the effect of strengthening the heart and restoring the pulse. A medium dose of velvet antler preparation can increase arterial blood flow, enhance the heart's contractile force, accelerate heart rate and increase the amplitude of cardiac contraction, thereby increasing cardiac stroke volume and minute output.

2. What is the difference between velvet antler blood and velvet antler?

Velvet antler refers to the young, unossified, velvet-covered antlers of male sika deer or red deer, and is a precious medicinal material. Its health-promoting effect is very strong, and it is a good fitness and strengthening medicine, containing amino acids, lecithin, vitamins and trace elements and so on in greater abundance than ginseng; velvet antler is warm in nature but not drying, and has the effect of invigorating and improving bodily functions, with a relatively good health-promoting effect on patients with general weakness or after a long illness. Velvet antler can also improve the body's cellular immunity and humoral immune function, promote the transformation of lymphocytes, and acts as an immune enhancer. It can increase the body's defense against the outside world, regulate immune balance within the body, thereby avoiding the occurrence of disease and promoting wound healing and recovery from illness, thus playing a role in strengthening the body and resisting aging.

Velvet antler blood is the fresh blood obtained by extracting fresh velvet antler with a vacuum pump when harvesting the antler of red deer or sika deer. Because it is obtained from velvet antler, its composition is roughly similar to that of velvet antler. Its nature is hot but not drying; it tonifies the kidney and strengthens yang, strengthens the bones and muscles, generates essence and nourishes marrow, and dispels wind-dampness. Mixed with wine, it becomes velvet antler blood wine, with even stronger effects. Consuming velvet antler blood wine can refresh the spirit and strengthen the body, with better effects than ordinary velvet antler.

3. Who should not consume velvet antler blood?

1. People with symptoms of “five-heart heat” or yin deficiency should not consume it.

2. People with excessive internal heat, such as yellow-red urine, dry and painful throat, or excessive thirst, should not consume it.

3. People who often have nosebleeds, or women with heavy menstrual flow, bright red blood, red tongue and a thin pulse, showing blood heat, should not consume it.

4. People with headache, nasal congestion, fever and aversion to cold, and cough with much phlegm during a cold should not consume it.

5. People with high blood pressure who often have dizziness, unsteady walking, and strong liver fire with irritability should not consume it.

6. People with sudden acute infections of various kinds or severe pain should not consume it.