What are the effects and ways to eat deer antler?

Deer antler is a relatively precious medicinal material. There are many ways to eat it. The most common way is to use it to make wine or grind it into powder and use it directly for making soup. Deer antler can actually be used for cooking. The most common way is to stew meat, because deer antler can strengthen the body, is beneficial to the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular systems, and can also adjust the body's hormone levels, help to facilitate defecation and urination, and promote the metabolic system.

Deer antler is warm in nature, sweet and salty in taste, and rich in nutrients such as protein, vitamins, hormones, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, etc. It is an important high-end tonic that has the functions of nourishing the kidney and producing sperm, nourishing blood and invigorating yang, strengthening tendons and bones, etc. It can be made into Chinese patent medicines such as Ginseng and Antler Tonic Pills, Banlong Pills, Deer Antler Wine and Deer Antler Essence.

1. Strengthening effect. It can improve the body's working ability, improve sleep and diet, and reduce fatigue.

2. Effects on cardiovascular system. Large doses of deer antler essence can lower blood pressure, slow heart rate, and dilate peripheral blood vessels; medium doses can strengthen cardiac contractility, increase heart rate, and increase cardiac output, and have a significant cardiotonic effect on a weak heart. It regulates arrhythmia and strengthens heart contraction.

3. It has sex hormone-like effects.

Animal experiments have confirmed that subcutaneous injection of deer antler tincture can increase the weight of the prostate and seminal vesicles within a few days.

4. It can excite the isolated intestine and uterus and enhance the diuretic function of the kidneys.

How to eat deer antler for the best effect

1. Deer antler wine

Medicinal wine is a major tradition in China. By soaking medicine in liquor, the essence of the medicine seeps into the wine, which helps to promote the circulation of qi. The effect of the medicine then takes effect quickly and reaches the whole body. Deer antler can also be added to wine. After soaking the deer antler slices in white wine with a concentration of more than 50 degrees for a period of time, you can drink it. You can also add other medicinal materials to soak together as needed. The Chinese Food Network recipe book states that the velvet antlers used in wine must be sliced ​​raw, as this type of medicinal wine will be more effective.

2. Deer antler powder

If you don’t have time to make wine or boil soup, there is another way to solve your troubles. That is to grind the deer antler into fine powder, and take the powder with wine or salt water before going to bed at night. It is convenient and also has good effects.

3. Cooking with Deer Antler

Diet therapy is a great way to maintain health and strengthen the body, and nutritious foods such as deer antlers are a very good ingredient. In the southern region, deer antler and other medicinal materials are added to chicken, duck, goose or pork, simmered over a slow fire, and the soup is drunk, which also has a strong tonic effect. China Food and Beverage Network stated that deer antlers can be used not only for making soup, but can also be crushed into powder and added to other dishes.