The deer antler market is quite mixed. If you want to buy genuine products at reasonable prices, you must see if the seller is in the place of production and has a physical store, preferably a deer farm.

Deer antler, the name of Chinese medicinal material. This product is the unossified young antlers of sika deer or red deer of the Cervidae family. Generally, there are two methods: sawing and chopping antler. The main functions are: strengthening yang, replenishing qi and blood, replenishing essence, and strengthening muscles and bones. It can be used to treat weakness due to fatigue, mental fatigue, dizziness, deafness, dark eyes, soreness in the waist and knees, impotence, spermatorrhea; cold uterus, metrorrhagia, and vaginal discharge.

① "Herbal Classic": Mainly used for leakage of bad blood, cold and heat, shock of epilepsy, replenishing qi and strengthening the will.

② "Bie Lu": Treats consumptive fatigue such as malaria, emaciation, sore limbs, waist and spine pain, urination, ejaculation, drowning, bleeding in the abdomen due to rupture, and stranguria. Carbuncle, heat in the bone, gangrene and itching ("Compendium of Materia Medica" says: 'itch' should be read as 'sore').

③ "Treatise on the Properties of Medicine": Mainly used to nourish men with cold waist and kidneys, weakness in the ankles and knees, dreaming of sexual intercourse, spontaneous discharge of semen, and bleeding during metrorrhagia in women. Take the dried powder with a hollow cup and warm wine. It is also mainly taken under the red and white belt and used as a powder.

④ "Rihuazi Materia Medica": Tonify deficiency and emaciation, strengthen muscles and bones, break blood stasis, soothe fetus and lower qi, and can be used by roasting.

⑤ "Outline": Produces essence and replenishes marrow, nourishes blood and replenishes yang, and strengthens muscles and bones. Cure all weakness, deafness, dark eyes, dizziness, and dysentery

. ⑥ "Compendium of Materia Medica": Treat children with acne, white spots, lack of fluid, or diarrhea, chills and gritted teeth; treat spleen and kidney failure in the elderly, lack of fire in Mingmen, or reduced diet and loose stools. According to the most common types of deer on the market, antler can be roughly divided into: domestic Northeast sika deer, domestic red deer, imported New Zealand deer, Canadian elk, and Russian reindeer. Domestic sika deer antler has the best effect.

New Zealand velvet antler is very common in our country, but the ingredients of New Zealand velvet antler are insufficient, so pharmaceutical companies do not use New Zealand velvet antler. However, due to the low price of New Zealand velvet antler, many businesses sell New Zealand velvet antler.

Reference for the above content: Deer Antler (Chinese Medicine)_Baidu Encyclopedia