What are the effects and functions of Cornu Cervi Degelatinatum?

Cornu Cervi Degelatinatum is the bone residue remaining after the antlers of sika deer or red deer of the Cervidae family are boiled to make deer antler glue. Used as medicine, it has the effects of warming the kidney and assisting yang, and astringing to stop bleeding. It has a therapeutic effect on conditions such as spleen-kidney yang deficiency, excessive vaginal discharge, enuresis and frequent urination, abnormal uterine bleeding, and non-healing sores and ulcers. Let us take a look at the effects and functions of Cornu Cervi Degelatinatum below!

The medicinal effects of Cornu Cervi Degelatinatum

[Nature and flavor] Salty and astringent in flavor, warm in nature.

[Meridian entry] Liver and kidney meridians.

[Effects] Warming the kidney and assisting yang, astringing to stop bleeding. Mainly treats spleen-kidney yang deficiency, excessive vaginal discharge, enuresis and frequent urination, abnormal uterine bleeding, and non-healing sores and ulcers.

The clinical effects of Cornu Cervi Degelatinatum

1. To treat five types of low back pain, frequent urination at night, and longstanding cold in the bladder: Cornu Cervi Degelatinatum, finely ground into powder like flour, taken on an empty stomach each day with warm wine, two qian, and taken again before the evening meal.

2. To treat chyluria: Cornu Cervi Degelatinatum, white poria, and qiushi in equal parts. Grind into powder, make into pills with a paste the size of firmiana seeds. Take fifty pills each time, taken with rice water.

3. To treat night sweats and seminal emission: Cornu Cervi Degelatinatum two liang, raw fossil dragon bone (fried) and Zhuang snake (calcined) one liang each. Grind into powder, make into pills with a wine paste the size of firmiana seeds. Take forty pills each time with salt water.

4. To treat deficiency cold of the spleen and stomach, poor appetite and loose stools, and gastric reflux with vomiting.

5. To treat kidney deficiency with insecurity of the essence gate, nocturnal emission and slippage, or emission during sleep, it can be combined with fossil dragon bone and oyster shell to enhance the astringing effect.

6. To treat frequent urination: Cornu Cervi Degelatinatum and white poria in equal parts. Grind into powder, make into pills with a wine paste the size of firmiana seeds. Take thirty pills each time, taken with salt water.

The consumption methods of Cornu Cervi Degelatinatum

1. Cornu Cervi Degelatinatum drink

[Materials] Cornu Cervi Degelatinatum 5 qian, prepared rehmannia 8 qian, codonopsis 3 qian, astragalus 3 qian, Chinese chive seed 1 qian, cinnamon 1 qian, dodder seed 2 qian.

[Effects] Mainly treats postpartum deficiency cold of the lower burner, or improper delivery management, erroneous methods used indiscriminately, damaging the fu networks, resulting in dribbling urination and enuresis.

2. Cornu Cervi Degelatinatum soup for strengthening the spleen and stopping diarrhea

[Materials] Codonopsis and psoralea 12 grams each, poria and fried hyacinth bean 15 grams each, Chinese yam 20 grams, platycodon 5 grams, licorice 3 grams, atractylodes and nutmeg 10 grams each.

[Effects] Mainly treats chronic colitis. Symptoms include abdominal pain, long-unresolved diarrhea, poor appetite, and fatigue. Pale tongue, white coating, deep and thin pulse.

3. Cornu Cervi Degelatinatum soup for resolving phlegm and reducing swelling

[Materials] Bupleurum 6 grams, red peony and kelp 10 grams each, angelica and prepared cyperus 12 grams each, Cornu Cervi Degelatinatum, winter melon seed, thunberg fritillary, and prunella 15 grams each, coix seed, dandelion, wild chrysanthemum, and raw oyster shell 30 grams each.

[Usage] 1 dose per day, decocted in water twice, taken in divided doses morning and evening.

[Effects] Clears heat and resolves phlegm, relieves depression and dissipates nodules, promotes diuresis and reduces swelling.

4. Cornu Cervi Degelatinatum soup for tonifying the kidney and strengthening the bones

[Materials] Cornu Cervi Degelatinatum 15 grams, prepared rehmannia 20 grams, cistanche 15 grams, leech 10 grams, pangolin scale 10 grams, sliced turmeric 10 grams, yellow gelatin 10 grams, drynaria 30 grams, cyperus 10 grams.

[Usage] Decocted in water, 1 dose per day, taken twice daily.

[Effects] Tonifies the kidney and strengthens the bones, soothes the sinews and unblocks the collaterals. Treats blockage of the meridians, deficiency damage of kidney qi, and insufficient nourishment of the bones by qi and blood.

5. Cornu Cervi Degelatinatum, angelica and rehmannia blood-nourishing soup

[Materials] Qin angelica 4 qian, prepared rehmannia 3 qian, Cornu Cervi Degelatinatum 3 qian, cyperus 3 qian, soaked codonopsis 4 qian, atractylodes 3 qian, mulberry mistletoe 4 qian, goji berry 3 qian, cornus 3 qian.

[Usage] Decocted in water, taken on an empty stomach.

[Effects] Nourishes yin and supplements blood. Mainly treats late menstruation belonging to simple blood deficiency.