How often should deer antler be eaten?

Deer antler can effectively replenish vitality. For people who have just recovered from a serious illness, they can eat some deer antler to restore their strength. However, although deer antler is a tonic medicinal material, it should not be eaten too frequently or in excessive amounts. So how often should deer antler be eaten? Deer antler has the effect of strengthening the kidneys, improving the essence and blood, as well as strengthening the tendons and bones, but eating too much can easily cause getting a sore throat. The daily dosage should be controlled within five grams, and stop eating it for a few days after a week before continuing.

How often should deer antler be eaten?

1. The dosage of deer antler is 1 to 5 grams per day. It is recommended to start with a small amount and increase slowly to avoid hurting the yin and causing bleeding. It is recommended to take it for a cycle of seven days. It is better to stop for two or three days after taking it and then take it for another cycle. Long-term and large-volume use is not recommended.

2. All deer products are subject to the same standards. It is best if you do not experience any obvious abnormal heatiness after eating them. Whether increasing or decreasing the amount, you must proceed step by step, and remember not to increase or decrease suddenly. About 10 grams a day will be enough.

3. The nature and flavor of deer antler are sweet and salty; warm; it enters the kidney and liver meridians; its effects are: strengthening kidney yang, replenishing essence and blood, strengthening tendons and bones, regulating Chong and Ren meridians, and supporting sores and toxins. Although it is good for your health, you cannot eat too much of it as it will cause internal heat in your body. Generally, in winter, you can eat it once a week at most.

4. Deer antler tastes sweet and salty, and is warm in nature. It mainly has the functions of strengthening kidney yang, benefiting essence and blood, and replenishing qi. It is suitable for all deficiency diseases such as impotence and spermatorrhea caused by insufficient kidney yang, metrorrhagia and leukorrhea in women, cold waist and knees, weak lower limbs, enuresis or blood in urine, yang deficiency and essence deficiency, etc. It can also treat sores caused by deficiency and cold, and ulcers that do not heal for a long time. It can be used to nourish the inside and have the effect of promoting tissue regeneration and healing the wound. Dosage: 0.9-3 grams. It is often used in pills or powders. Take 1 gram of velvet antler slices (upper, middle and lower sections), 1 red date, 1 slice of ginger, and a little rice wine, put them into a cup with a lid, add half a cup of water, cover tightly, and place in a pot to stew. After the water boils, simmer it on low heat for 2 to 3 hours and then it can be used (if the first time eater experiences reactions such as dry mouth, red eyes, rapid heartbeat, etc., he should stop eating it, as it is due to the weak constitution that cannot be supplemented. For those without symptoms, eat it once every other day and gradually increase the dosage to 6 grams).

How to Eat Deer Antler for Family Health

1. Chew and dissolve: Hold 1-2 tablets under the tongue each time, moisten and soak them with saliva, and then swallow the saliva until the taste of the medicine becomes light, then chew and swallow it.

2. Swallowing powder: Dry the antlers and grind them into fine powder (or buy ready-made antler powder), put the antler powder directly in your mouth, and take it with warm water or other liquid medicine. The dosage is generally 0.3 to 0.5 grams per day. You can also divide the deer antler powder into pre-prepared hollow capsules, place them in a sealed container, and keep them in a cool and ventilated place. Take 1 to 2 capsules each time with boiled water.

3. Decoction and nourishing paste: Put deer antler (usually not used alone, the dosage should be followed the doctor's advice when used in combination) and other health-preserving and nourishing medicines into two pots respectively, soak them in cold water for 1-2 hours, then add water about 10 cm above the surface of the medicine, simmer for about 1 hour, filter the decoction, this is the first decoction. Using this method, collect the second and third decoctions respectively (the decoction time can be shorter than the first decoction), then use clean gauze to squeeze the residue, combine the three decoctions and the squeezed liquid, let it stand for half a day, filter the supernatant with gauze, then use high heat to boil and concentrate it to about 500 ml, then add an equal amount of honey, use low heat, and boil until water drops form beads, then it becomes a nourishing paste. The dregs of deer antler after decoction can be chewed. Then put the boiled and cooled ointment into a clean dark bottle and store it in a cool and dry place or in the refrigerator.

4. Brew deer antler medicinal tea: Put the prepared deer antler slices into a teacup and brew with boiling water. Cover the cup tightly and soak for a few minutes. It can be drunk as tea, or it can be mixed with other sweet tonic medicines such as wolfberry, longan, etc. into a prescription and brewed at the same time. After several brewings, until the juice has no taste, you can chew and swallow the deer antler slices. If used as a health-care medicinal tea, the appropriate daily dosage of deer antler is 0.3 to 0.5 grams. It can also be consumed every other day, and it is not necessary to take it every day. If used as a medicinal tea to treat diseases, the dosage of deer antler can be appropriately increased, or used according to the doctor's instructions.

5. Soak in medicinal wine: Put deer antler or a compound containing other medicines into a bottle, add 500-1000 ml of liquor, and store it in a sealed bottle. Shake the bottle every two or three days to allow the effective ingredients to be fully extracted. Generally, it can be consumed after soaking for about 15 days. You can drink 10 to 50 ml each time. However, patients with liver and kidney damage, gastritis, and peptic ulcer should not use medicated wine as a tonic.

6. Decoction of medicinal porridge: Deer antler medicinal porridge is made under the guidance of the basic theories of traditional Chinese medicine. It is mainly made of deer antler, combined with other nourishing medicines, rice and grains, and then cooked together with appropriate seasonings. The formula is flexible, economical, simple, safe and effective, suitable for long-term use, and easy to fully absorb. It is an ideal dietary therapy method. There are usually two ways of doing it: one is to boil the thin slices of antler directly with rice or with other nourishing medicines such as wolfberry and donkey-hide gelatin, and cook it into porridge. Finally, chew and swallow the residue of the antler; the other is to process the antler into powder, add a little antler powder to the porridge in the early morning or evening, stir well and it is ready to eat. Every gram of deer antler powder can be made into health-care medicinal porridge and taken in 2 to 3 times.