The efficacy and contraindications of deer antler, one of the "Three Treasures of Northeast China"

Deer antler is one of the three treasures of Northeast China. In fact, deer antler is the young antler of the sika deer or red deer, which has not yet ossified. It is not simple. In traditional Chinese medicine, it is a very precious and precious medicinal material. If used correctly, it can play a good role. Today, I will briefly talk about the effects and taboos of deer antler.

The efficacy of deer antler:

Deer antler strengthens the primordial yang, replenishes qi and blood, benefits the essence and marrow, and strengthens the tendons and bones. It is used to treat emaciation, mental fatigue, dizziness, hearing loss, blurred vision, soreness of the waist and knees, impotence, spermatorrhea; cold uterus, metrorrhagia, and leukorrhea.

① "Ben Jing": It is used to treat leakage of foul blood, chills, fever, epilepsy, and to replenish qi and strengthen the will.

② "Bie Lu": It is used to treat weakness, fatigue, malaria-like bloating, emaciation, sore limbs, back pain, frequent urination, spermatorrhea, hematuria, blood in the abdomen, stone stranguria, swelling, and heat in the bones.

③ "Yao Xing Lun": It is mainly used to nourish the waist and kidney deficiency and coldness of men, weak feet and knees, nocturnal intercourse, spontaneous ejaculation, and metrorrhagia in women. Take a square inch of roasted powder on an empty stomach with warm wine. It is also used to treat leucorrhea and can be used in powder form.

④ "Bencao Gangmu" (Bencao Gangmu): It can replenish deficiency and emaciation, strengthen tendons and bones, break up blood stasis, calm the fetus and relieve gas, and can be used after being roasted in butter.

⑤ "Gangmu": It can nourish the marrow, nourish the blood and strengthen the yang, and strengthen the tendons and bones. It can cure all kinds of deficiency and damage, hearing loss, blurred vision, dizziness, and diarrhea.

Contraindications of taking deer antler:

First, people with symptoms of "five-heart heat" and yin deficiency;

Second, people with dark yellow urine, dry or sore throat, constant thirst and internal heat symptoms;

Third, frequent nosebleeds, or heavy menstrual flow in women, bright red blood, red tongue and thin veins, are manifestations of blood heat;

Fourth, people who have caught a cold and have symptoms such as headache, nasal congestion, fever, chills, cough and sputum; Fifth, people with hypertension, dizziness, unsteady walking, irritability and liver fire.

Fifth, people with yin deficiency and yang hyperactivity, heat in the blood, excessive stomach fire or phlegm heat in the lungs, as well as those who have not recovered from exogenous febrile diseases should avoid taking it.