How to soak deer antler yang-tonifying wine for the best effect?
Deer antler refers to the unossified young antlers covered in velvet of the male sika deer or red deer. It is a well-known traditional Chinese medicine for tonifying the kidney and strengthening yang. Li Shizhen wrote in the Compendium of Materia Medica: deer antler excels at tonifying the kidney and strengthening yang, generating essence and nourishing blood, and replenishing marrow and strengthening bones. Below, the editor will introduce the soaking method for deer antler yang-tonifying wine!
Can deer antler yang-tonifying wine strengthen yang?
Deer antler yang-tonifying wine can strengthen yang, and is a common use of deer antler for strengthening yang. Traditional Chinese medicine holds that deer antler is the essence of the deer, warm in nature with a sweet and salty taste, entering the kidney and liver meridians. It has the effects of prolonging life, nourishing blood and beautifying the complexion, and strengthening the body, and is most suitable for men and women who are weak and averse to cold.
Soaking method for deer antler yang-tonifying wine
[Formula] Deer antler 10 grams, Chinese yam 30 grams, baijiu 500 milliliters.
[Soaking method] Cut the deer antler into thin slices, place together with the Chinese yam in a container, add the baijiu, seal, and soak for 7 days before use. When the wine is gone, add more wine; when the flavor becomes weak, stop.
[Function] Tonify the kidney and strengthen yang.
[Indications] For men with consumptive fatigue and depleted essence, dual deficiency of essence and blood, impotence, soreness and pain of the waist and knees, aversion to cold and weakness, extreme debility and fatigue, enuresis, spermatorrhea, dizziness, deafness, poor development in children, cold uterus and infertility in women, abnormal uterine bleeding and leukorrhea, and other deficiency-cold symptoms.
[Usage] Oral. Take 15-30 milliliters on an empty stomach each time, 3 times a day.
How to select deer antler
[Whole deer antler] The best quality is plump, round and upright, tender in texture, fine-haired, with a reddish-brown skin color, light in weight, and with no angular edges at the base. Thin, lean antlers with sinews at the base, coarse hair, and heavy weight are inferior goods.
[Deer antler slices] Those with fine tender pores and small red slices are best.
People unsuitable for deer antler yang-tonifying wine
1. People with yin deficiency who have symptoms of “five-center heat”.
2. People whose urine is yellow and reddish, whose throat is dry or painfully dry, who feel thirsty frequently, and who have internal heat symptoms.
3. People who often have nosebleeds, or women with heavy menstrual flow, bright red blood, red tongue and thin pulse, showing blood heat.
4. People who are currently suffering from wind-cold or common cold, with headache, nasal congestion, fever and aversion to cold, cough with much phlegm, and other signs of externally-contracted pathogens at their peak.
5. People with hypertension, dizziness, unsteady walking, a wiry and easily agitated pulse, and excess liver fire.