What are the benefits and effects of deer antler velvet? A detailed introduction
Deer antler velvet refers to the young, unossified, velvet-covered antlers of male sika deer or red deer. When the young antlers of a male deer have not yet grown into hard bone, they are covered with velvet and contain blood, and are called deer antler velvet. It is a precious traditional Chinese medicine, with effects such as tonifying kidney yang, replenishing essence and blood, and strengthening sinews and bones. Let us take a look together below at the benefits, effects and ways to consume deer antler velvet!
The benefits of deer antler velvet
[Nature and flavor] Sweet, salty, warm.
[Meridians entered] Enters the liver and kidney meridians.
[Effects] Tonifies kidney yang, replenishes essence and blood, strengthens sinews and bones.
[Indications] Strengthens primordial yang, tonifies qi and blood, replenishes essence and marrow, strengthens sinews and bones, treats consumptive disease with emaciation, mental fatigue, dizziness, deafness, blurred vision, soreness and pain of the waist and knees, impotence, involuntary seminal emission, coldness and deficiency of the uterus, and abnormal uterine bleeding and leukorrhea.
The effects of deer antler velvet
1. Deer antler velvet has a relatively strong health-promoting effect and is a good general tonic. Deer antler velvet contains amino acids, lecithin, vitamins and trace elements, etc., in greater abundance than ginseng. Deer antler velvet is warm in nature but not dry, and has the effect of invigorating and improving body function, with a relatively good health-promoting effect on patients with general weakness and after long illness. Deer antler velvet can improve the body's capacity for work, improve sleep and appetite, and reduce fatigue.
2. Effects on the cardiovascular system. Large doses of deer antler velvet extract can lower blood pressure, slow the heart rate, and dilate peripheral blood vessels. Medium doses can strengthen cardiac contractility, speed up the heart rate, and increase cardiac output, with a clear cardiotonic effect on a weakened heart. It regulates arrhythmia and strengthens cardiac contraction.
3. It has a sex-hormone-like effect. Animal tests have confirmed that subcutaneous injection of deer antler velvet tincture causes an increase in the weight of the prostate and seminal vesicles within a few days.
4. It can excite isolated intestinal segments and the uterus, and enhance the kidney's diuretic function.
5. Deer antler velvet can improve the body's cellular immunity and humoral immune function, promote the transformation of lymphocytes, and has the effect of an immune booster. It can increase the body's defense against external factors, regulate the body's immune balance to avoid the occurrence of disease and promote wound healing and recovery from illness, thereby strengthening the body and resisting aging.
Contraindications for consuming deer antler velvet
1. It should not be taken by those with excess fire within the body. Whenever there are symptoms such as high fever with vexing thirst, red and swollen painful eyes, yellow phlegm, vomiting of blood, nosebleeds, blood in the urine, heat-toxin boils and carbuncles, bitter taste in the mouth, constipation, dark yellow urine, and a taut, rapid, surging and large pulse, all are caused by excess fire within the body. Using deer antler velvet as a tonic would only be like carrying firewood to put out a fire, achieving the opposite of what is intended.
2. Those with high blood pressure or liver disease must take it with caution. For all conditions such as high blood pressure, hepatitis and hepatic insufficiency, where there is yin deficiency with effulgent fire or excess fire within the body, one must follow a doctor's advice and take it cautiously, and must not choose it on one's own.
3. Contraindications for taking deer antler velvet and various deer antler velvet preparations as tonics. When taking deer antler velvet, it is best not to drink tea or eat radish, and try not to take traditional Chinese medicines containing radish seed, rice sprout, malt and hawthorn, etc., because they will weaken the medicinal power of deer antler velvet to varying degrees.
4. It should not be taken for externally contracted diseases. Whether externally contracted wind-cold or externally contracted wind-heat, whenever pathogenic factors are on the body surface, there will inevitably be symptoms such as aversion to cold, aversion to wind, fever, headache, and joint pain. At this time, taking deer antler velvet must be strictly avoided.
5. It should not be taken by those with deficiency fire in the kidneys. Clinically, symptoms such as dry cough with little phlegm, coughing blood, restlessness, red lips and crimson tongue, peeled or cracked tongue surface, scant fluids and thirst, dry and dim eyes, afternoon tidal fever, reddening of both cheeks, night sweats, heat in the palms and soles, and a thin, rapid pulse are all caused by insufficient kidney yin and hyperactive deficiency fire. If warming tonics such as deer antler velvet are mistakenly used, the medicine clearly does not match the syndrome, and will inevitably add fire and deplete yin, damaging fluids and consuming body fluids.
6. Contraindications for taking deer antler velvet and various deer antler velvet preparations as tonics. When taking deer antler velvet, it is best not to drink tea or eat radish, and try not to take traditional Chinese medicines containing radish seed, rice sprout, malt and hawthorn, etc., because they will weaken the medicinal power of deer antler velvet to varying degrees.
Alright, that is all for the introduction to the benefits and effects of deer antler velvet. Below, the editor will introduce the common ways to consume deer antler velvet!