What are the benefits and effects of deer tendon?
Deer tendon is the tendon of the limbs of the sika deer or red deer of the Cervidae family. Used as medicine, it has the effects of tonifying the liver and kidneys, strengthening sinew and bone, and dispelling wind-dampness. It has a therapeutic effect on conditions such as liver and kidney deficiency, exhaustion and severe injury, wind-damp impediment pain, muscle cramps, rheumatic joint pain, weakness of the hands and feet, calf muscle spasms, decline of male essence, insufficiency of essence and blood, soreness and aching of the lower back and legs, and weakness of the limbs. Let us take a look below at the benefits and effects of deer tendon!
Medicinal Effects of Deer Tendon
[Nature and Flavor] Salty in flavor, warm in nature.
[Meridians Entered] Liver and kidney meridians.
[Effects] Tonifies the liver and kidneys, strengthens sinew and bone, dispels wind-dampness. Mainly treats liver and kidney deficiency, exhaustion and severe injury, wind-damp impediment pain, muscle cramps, rheumatic joint pain, weakness of the hands and feet, calf muscle spasms, decline of male essence, insufficiency of essence and blood, all types of deficiency and damage, soreness and aching of the lower back and legs, and weakness of the limbs and joints.
Medicinal Effects of Deer Tendon
1. "Tang Materia Medica": Mainly treats exhaustion and damage, and restores severed tissues.
2. "Ben Jing Feng Yuan": Greatly strengthens sinew and bone; eating it makes one unafraid of cold.
3. "Ben Cao Qiu Zhen": Tonifies yang.
4. "Sichuan Materia Medica": Treats rheumatic joint pain, weakness of the hands and feet, and leg cramps.
How to Eat Deer Tendon
1. Braised Deer Tendon
[Ingredients] 400 g oil-puffed deer tendon, 10 g shiitake mushrooms, 10 g winter bamboo shoots, 3 g salt, 15 g soy sauce, 5 g scallion sections, 5 g ginger slices, 3 g white sugar, 10 g cooking wine, 5 g oyster sauce, 10 g water starch, appropriate amount of salad oil.
[Method] ① Wash the oil-puffed deer tendon, cut into long strips, blanch thoroughly in boiling water, remove and drain well. ② Slice the shiitake mushrooms and winter bamboo shoots diagonally into 0.3 cm thick slices. ③ Place a pan over the heat, leave a little base oil and heat it, add the scallion sections and ginger slices and stir-fry until fragrant, splash in the cooking wine, add the deer tendon strips and an appropriate amount of water, and braise until the liquid is thick. Then add the shiitake mushroom slices, winter bamboo shoot slices, salt, soy sauce, white sugar and oyster sauce and cook for 3 minutes. Remove the scallion sections and ginger slices, thicken with starch, and transfer to a plate.
2. Deer Tendon Bone-Strengthening Wine
[Ingredients] 30 g deer tendon, 200 g deer bone, 50 g angelica (danggui), 40 g papaya, 75 g codonopsis (dangshen), 200 g fragrant solomonseal rhizome (yuzhu), 75 g astragalus (huangqi), 100 g Paris polyphylla (chonglou), 96 g Japanese knotweed (huzhang), 75 g cassia twig (guizhi), 100 g dipsacus (xuduan), 50 g cinnamon (rougui), 100 g safflower (honghua), 75 g goji berry (gouqizi), 50 g largeleaf gentian root (qinjiao), 40 g prepared Sichuan aconite (zhichuanwu), 40 g prepared wild aconite (zhicaowu).
[Effects] Dispels wind and removes dampness, relaxes sinew and invigorates blood. Used for numbness of the limbs and rheumatoid arthritis. Take orally, 10 milliliters at a time, twice a day. Contraindicated for pregnant women and patients with high blood pressure.
3. Braised Deer Tendon with Pine Nuts
[Ingredients] Sika deer tendon, pine nuts.
[Method] Soak the deer tendon for more than four hours, then cook by braising.
[Effects] Strengthens sinew and bone.