What are the benefits of eating deer antler?

Deer antler is a very precious medicine. Deer antler is non-toxic, but it is warm in nature, so it is best not to take deer antler indiscriminately. If you want to take deer antler, it is best to take it under the guidance of a doctor. Although deer antler is a tonic, if you take it blindly, not only will the effect of deer antler not be exerted, it may also cause discomfort to the body. So what are the benefits of eating deer antler?

How to eat deer antler for the best effect

1. Grind into powder and take orally

Deer antler is not only a nourishing food ingredient, but also a Chinese medicinal material. When people take it, they can grind it into fine powder, put it into capsules, and take it directly with warm water. This can allow the deer antler to exert its best medicinal effect, and also allow the human body to absorb the various nutrients it contains, so as to achieve the most ideal health care effect.

2. Cook porridge

Deer antler can also be used to cook porridge. When cooking porridge with it, you need to boil the prepared deer antler with clean water in advance, put it into the pot after the medicinal liquid is boiled out, add the porridge ingredients you prepared, and cook them together into porridge. When boiling the deer antler with water, you can also add appropriate amounts of ginseng and wolfberry. This will make the nutritional value of the prepared deer antler higher, and the porridge will have a soft and glutinous taste, which is easy for the human body to digest and absorb, and will not increase the burden on the stomach and intestines.

3. Soak in wine

Usually, drinking wine soaked with deer antler has very good health effects, and this is a common method of taking deer antler in ancient China. When soaking deer antler in wine, you can pair it with appropriate amounts of ginseng and wolfberry, as well as Chinese medicinal materials with nourishing effects such as Rehmannia glutinosa. This will make the health effects of the wine even better. In addition, do not throw away the deer antler slices after soaking in wine. You can take them out and take them directly orally. You do not need to take too much each time, and it is best not to exceed three grams.

4. Stew

Deer antler is a traditional Chinese medicinal material with nourishing effects. If you just stew it with nutritious meat ingredients and eat it, you can also achieve good health-preserving effects. It can relieve physical weakness, nourish yin and strengthen yang, and delay aging. When stewing common ribs, chicken and duck meat in life, you can add an appropriate amount of velvet antler. Eating the meat and drinking the soup after stewing is most conducive to the body's absorption and utilization of the nutrients in the velvet antler.

Who should never eat deer antlers?

1. People with internal heat should not take it.

Generally speaking, symptoms such as high fever, thirst, red and swollen painful eyes, yellow phlegm, vomiting blood, nosebleed, hematuria, heat toxicity, furuncles, carbuncles, bitter taste in the mouth, constipation, yellow and red urine, and a stringy, rapid and strong pulse are all caused by internal fire. Taking deer antler as a tonic is like adding fuel to the fire, which is counterproductive.

2. People with hypertension or liver disease should take this medicine with caution.

Anyone who suffers from hypertension, hepatitis, liver dysfunction and other diseases, which are caused by yin deficiency and hyperactivity of fire or internal fire, must follow the doctor's advice and take the medicine with caution and cannot choose on their own.

3. Contraindications of taking deer antler and various deer antler preparations.

It is best not to drink tea or eat radish when taking deer antler, and try not to take Chinese medicine containing radish seeds, barley sprouts, malt and hawthorn, as they will weaken the medicinal power of deer antler to varying degrees.

4. It is not suitable for people with external diseases.

No matter it is exogenous wind-cold or exogenous wind-heat, as long as the evil is on the skin surface, there will be symptoms such as aversion to cold, aversion to wind, fever, headache, limb pain, etc. At this time, do not take deer antler.

5. People with kidney deficiency and fire should not take it.

Deficiency-heat syndrome: Clinically, there are dry cough with little sputum, hemoptysis, irritability, red lips and tongue, peeling or cracked tongue surface, thirst with little fluid, dry and blurred eyes, hot flashes in the afternoon, red cheekbones, night sweats, hot hands and feet, and a weak pulse, all of which are caused by insufficient kidney yin and excessive deficiency fire. If deer antler and other warm tonic medicines are used incorrectly, it is obviously not the right medicine for the condition, and will inevitably cause fire to attack yin, damage body fluids and consume fluids.

6. Contraindications for taking deer antler and various deer antler preparations.

It is best not to drink tea or eat radish when taking deer antler, and try not to take Chinese medicine containing radish seeds, barley sprouts, malt and hawthorn, as they will weaken the medicinal power of deer antler to varying degrees.