What are the effects and functions of deer antler glue?
Deer antler glue is a solid glue made by decocting the already ossified antlers of male deer. In Chinese history, deer antler glue has a history of more than two thousand years and is also a sacred tonic. It has the effects of warming and tonifying the liver and kidneys and benefiting essence and nourishing blood. It has therapeutic effects on symptoms such as blood deficiency dizziness, soreness and coldness of the waist and knees, and emaciation due to consumptive disease. Now let us take a look at the effects and functions of deer antler glue!
The medicinal effects of deer antler glue
1. Warming the kidneys and benefiting essence: Deer antler glue has the effects of tonifying essence and blood and calming the fetus and stopping bleeding. It mainly treats symptoms such as kidney deficiency, insufficient essence and blood, emaciation due to consumptive disease, dizziness and tinnitus, soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, impotence and spermatorrhea, uterine cold infertility, restless fetus, abnormal uterine bleeding and leukorrhea, hematemesis, epistaxis, hemoptysis, hematuria, and yin-type abscesses and sores.
2. Enhancing sexual function: Gavage with old dosage forms or granule forms of deer antler glue can shorten the latency period of electrically stimulated penile erection in rats. The heart and old dosage forms of deer antler glue have a tendency to enhance the mating ability of male rats, and the new dosage form has a weight-increasing effect on the seminal vesicles and prostate of male rats. Both dosage forms of deer antler glue have a certain blood-tonifying effect.
3. Promoting calcium absorption: It promotes calcium absorption and retention in the body, causing blood calcium to increase slightly. This calcium carrier effect may be related to the glycine it contains. Calcium can reduce capillary permeability, reduce exudation, and has anti-inflammatory, anti-swelling, and anti-allergic effects.
The pharmacological effects of deer antler glue
1. Effect on lymphoblasts: It promotes the transformation of human lymphoblasts, and the effect is stronger than that of E. coli lipopolysaccharide.
2. Effect on blood cells: It can promote an increase in the amounts of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets in peripheral blood.
3. Effect on muscle nutrition: It has significant preventive, therapeutic, and treating effects on progressive muscular dystrophy in guinea pigs selected by special feed rearing.
How to consume deer antler glue
1. Deer antler glue porridge
[Materials] 15-20 grams of deer antler glue, 100 grams of japonica rice, 3 slices of ginger
[Method] First cook the japonica rice into porridge. After it boils, add the deer antler glue and ginger and cook together into a thin porridge.
[Usage] 1-2 times daily. 3-5 days constitute one course of treatment.
[Effects] Tonifies kidney yang and benefits essence and blood. Suitable for impotence, premature ejaculation, spermatorrhea, waist pain, uterine deficiency and cold in women, infertility, abnormal uterine bleeding, leukorrhea, etc. caused by insufficient kidney qi.
[Cautions] Contraindicated for those with yin deficiency and hyperactive fire, dry mouth and tongue, yellow urine and constipation, or fever due to common cold. Suitable for consumption in winter.
2. Deer antler glue powder
[Materials] 60 grams of deer antler glue (pounded into pieces and stir-fried until yellow and dry), 60 grams of Cistanche deserticola (soaked in wine overnight, scraped to remove the wrinkled skin, and roasted dry), 90 grams of prepared dried rehmannia, 45 grams of Astragalus membranaceus (cut into pieces), 45 grams of Angelica sinensis, 75 grams of Ophiopogon japonicus (with the core removed and roasted), 30 grams of Dendrobium (with the roots removed), 30 grams of Schisandra chinensis.
[Method] Pound the above medicines finely into a powder.
[Usage] Take 6 grams each time, mixed with ginger and jujube decoction on an empty stomach, or taken with warm wine.
[Effects] Treats consumptive disease with shortness of breath, emaciation of the limbs, general weakness, and sallow complexion.
3. Deer antler glue and prepared rehmannia soup
[Materials] 15 grams of deer antler glue, 50 grams of prepared rehmannia, 5 grams of cinnamon, 10 grams of white mustard seed, 2 grams each of Ephedra and ginger, 6 grams of raw licorice.
[Method] Put all ingredients into a clay pot, add an appropriate amount of water, and decoct the juice.
[Usage] Take 1 dose daily.
[Effects] Tonifies kidney deficiency and strengthens tendons and bones. It has therapeutic effects on thromboangiitis obliterans, crane-knee wind, yin-type abscesses, and other symptoms.
4. Deer antler glue and Chinese yam porridge
[Materials] 6 grams of deer antler glue crushed, 20 grams of Chinese yam powder, 60 grams of japonica rice.
[Method] Mix the above raw materials, add an appropriate amount of water, and cook into porridge. After it is cooked, add an appropriate amount of sugar or no sugar, and eat as a side food.
[Usage] Eat intermittently.
[Effects] Tonifies the kidneys and strengthens yang, generates essence and nourishes blood, and benefits the spleen and lungs. It is beneficial for kidney deficiency and waist soreness, weak constitution with easy coughing, and spleen deficiency and weak stomach.
5. Human placenta and deer antler glue porridge
[Materials] 15-20 grams of deer antler glue, 1/3 of a fresh human placenta, 100 grams of japonica rice, 3 slices of ginger, appropriate amounts of scallion and salt.
[Method] First cook the japonica rice into porridge. After it boils, add the deer antler glue, human placenta pieces, ginger, and scallion white and cook together into a thin porridge. Add salt for seasoning.
[Usage] 1-2 times daily, taken warm.
[Effects] Tonifies kidney yang and benefits essence and blood. Suitable for uterine deficiency and cold in women, infertility, abnormal uterine bleeding, leukorrhea, as well as impotence, premature ejaculation, spermatorrhea, waist pain, etc. caused by insufficient kidney qi.