Deer velvet: Healing effects and correct use

Deer velvet is one of the valuable pharmaceuticals used to nourish the body, increase resistance and help repel many chronic diseases. In order to make the most of the nutrients of medicinal herbs, it is necessary to understand the curative effect and correct usage of deer velvet.

What is deer velvet?

Deer velvet is also called velvet antler, which is the young horn of the male deer. Normally, the deer’s horns will fall off in the summer and regrow in the next spring. Because the new horns grow, they are very soft, the outer surface is covered with hair, the inside contains many blood vessels and cartilage tissue, so when touched, they will feel soft and smooth like velvet, so they are called deer velvet.

Due to the self-regenerating mechanism, the new horns after cutting will regrow new horns within 1 year and the harvesting process of deer antler lasts 13-15 years. Currently, Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Dong Nai,… are provinces raising deer for young horns. But the quality of velvet buds will be different, because it depends on where the deer are raised and the process of raising the deer.

• Other names: Loc velvet, Blood velvet, Quan Loc velvet, Me nhung, Ban longzhou, Hoang mao nhung.
• Name in Science: Cervus Nippon Temminck.
• Family: Deer, deer.

Identifying characteristics

The deer is a ruminant, belonging to the mammal class Mammalia, family of the Deer Cervidae and the order Chuan Artiodactyla. It is easy for many people to confuse a deer and a deer, but in fact both of these animals belong to the Deer family and differ only in a few features.

Deer are small animals about 1m high, 0.9 – 1.2m long, with very fine pink red fur and a body with many white spots. The deer are usually larger and stronger than deer, have stiffer hair, brown, gray, and especially without spots on the body.

Usually, to recognize the antler antler deer antler, people will rely on some of the following characteristics:

• Young horns are usually small, divided into 2 branches, very soft and evenly grown on the head of the deer.
• Outside the deer velvet is covered with a smooth, velvet-like fur.
• In the first few months, the velvet area will be light pink in color and then turn brown when it reaches a length of about 15 – 20cm.
• In spring, the nutritional value of deer velvet is very high. Because this is the period when the deer are most powerful and people often harvest velvet buds at this time.
• Nowadays, the technique of harvesting deer antler is getting more and more modern, so the quality of the young horns is also higher and it is guaranteed not to affect the life of the deer.

Classification of deer velvet

Based on the time of harvesting the velvet blood (the age of the deer horns), it is classified into the following categories:

• Velvet Blood: This is the most expensive and has the highest nutritional value. They are usually harvested while the horns are still young, taken from deer that are 3 years of age or older. With the characteristics of velvet body is short, soft, glossy, rose-gold or brown-yellow, contains many blood vessels and is often exploited the most thoroughly.
• Saddle Velvet: A type of young horn that has branched but is short, shaped like a saddle. This velvet also offers quite high nutritional and medicinal value, but they need to be harvested correctly in the spring, avoiding old horns so as not to lose precious nutrients.
• Sawn deer velvet: This is the young horn of a deer under 2 years old with a small size with a weight of only about 40 – 50g. Low nutritional content is equivalent to velvet.
• Deer Antler Velvet: Harvested from the horns of an old deer from 10 to 15 years old, the horns are branched, hard and thick. Since it has passed its healthiest stage, the nutrient has no high value.

How to capture and preliminary processing

Deer horns will begin to fall in late summer and regrow in the next spring. Normally, in February – March every year, people will often go hunting this season to get the highest quality deer velvet.

When harvesting deer velvet, people will use a very sharp saw, a little medicine to stop the bleeding quickly, and 4-5 people together to hold the deer. The act of sawing must be fast, decisive and cut from 3 – 4cm from the bottom of the velvet.

The amount of bleeding can be put into alcohol to drink to help enhance physiological, but should be taken in moderation to not harm deer. In addition, people often use Chinese ink mixed with wood charcoal and then smear it on the saws to stop the bleeding quickly.

After the deer velvet is cut, it will be processed immediately to avoid the smell of stench and maggots. There are 2 ways to prepare popular deer velvet:

• Method 1: Dip a pair of deer velvet in wine overnight so that the head is cut up above the wine surface to avoid dissolving nutritional active ingredients. The next day, use the sand to roast to heat, then put the velvet pair in to incubate and the cutting head is upwards. Change the sand continuously until the velvet is completely dry.
• Method 2: Soak the wine in velvet and dry it continuously until the velvet is dry.

Note:

• During the preparation, it is not allowed to crack or bleed in the velvet body because it will reduce its value.
• To prepare it takes about 2-3 days, a pair of 800g fresh velvet will get 250g of medicinal herbs as standard.
• Store this medicinal herb in a dry, cool place, away from pests and mold.

Preservation

Depending on the type of deer velvet that people will divide into different preservation, for example:

• Fresh deer velvet : Put the velvet in vacuum bags and put it in the freezer of the refrigerator. This will help keep the nutritional content and active ingredients in the velvet intact.
• Dried deer velvet: To preserve longer, after drying, people bring the sliced ​​deer velvet to a sealed jar, with a moisture-proof bag to avoid mold for the velvet. At that time, velvet buds can be kept for 1-2 months and still retain 95% of their nutritional content.

Attribute composition of deer velvet

Deer velvet is one of the four great pharmaceuticals of Vietnam (including ginseng, cinnamon, antler velvet, and white baby). This is considered a valuable medicine from thousands of years ago used to present to kings or emperors.

Because of this, the wonderful effects of deer velvet have been recorded in many ancient documents of traditional medicine and modern scientific research.

1. Calculate taste

• In the notes from Ban Kinh: Loc velvet has a sweet, temperate taste
• In the record from Manuscript Mong Toan: Loc velvet has a sweet, salty, temperate, and non-toxic taste

2. Regression

• According to the Manuscript of the Preliminary Scriptures: Nhung can enter the sound of the scriptures, lack the sound, the lack of sound and the sound determination.
• According to Lei Cong Bao Pharmaceutical Processing, said: Deer velvet attributed to the Can, Kidney.

3. Chemical composition

• Uonic acid: Supports biochemical functions, enhances fitness, creates a sense of excitement and comfort.
• Neutrophils: This is a component in the natural immune system, helping to strengthen the body’s resistance and enhance the body’s immune system.
• Chondroitin: This is an important component in the structure of joint cartilage, helping joints become more supple, durable and tough.
• Collagen: Is a component that makes up the main structure of protein in many connective tissues in the body.
• Pantocrin: Usually used to make drugs that support physiological function, reproductive rejuvenation and endocrine.
• Prostaglandin: Helps to fight inflammation and repair damage quickly.
• Hyaluronic: Ability to stimulate new cell production, old cell metabolism, good for bones and joints and skin rejuvenation.
• Glycosaminoglycans: Work in forming connective tissue, help lubricate joints and strengthen bones.
• IGF-1: Is a protein capable of regulating the growth of the nucleus and cells in bone and cartilage. This substance also plays an important role in brain development and height of children.
• Other ingredients: There are also types of trace elements, amino acids and important minerals such as calcium, potassium, sodium, magnesium, protid, lipid, …

Healing effects of deer velvet

According to modern medical studies, deer velvet has many good health benefits. Specifically:

• Improving health: Deer velvet provides 25 amino acids and 26 trace elements to enhance health, replenish energy and increase resilience after surgery, radiation therapy.
• Good for the cardiovascular system: Deer velvet contains pantocrin capable of circulating blood in the heart and coronary arteries to stabilize heart rate, healthy heart and good blood pressure.
• Increasing resistance: Using deer velvet regularly will help the body to be supplemented with minerals, proteins, lipids, increasing the ability to recover well. In addition, this type of superior medicine also has the ability to generate marrow, joint strength, strong bones, anti-fatigue and regenerate cells thanks to Alkaline phosphatase.
• Male Enhancement: Using deer velvet correctly will help improve sex time, spermatogenesis, blood benefit to treat nephrotic, impotence or weak sperm. Therefore, deer velvet often contributes to many effective remedies for infertility.
• Treatment of diseases related to bones and joints, gout: In velvet antler contains calcium to help strengthen bones and prevent aging of bones and joints. The glue in velvet antler also helps to regenerate the cartilage layer.
• Stabilize the digestive tract: Help improve the digestive system clearly such as diuretics, increase the peristalsis of the stomach – intestines, stimulate the good metabolism of protid – glucid, help the body absorb nutrients easily. improve sleep quality.
• Anti-aging: Deer velvet helps to slow down the aging process, limit wrinkles, remove age spots, skin pigmentation so women always keep their skin young, laxative. In addition, deer velvet also helps to nourish blood, regulate menstruation and help remove harmful substances from the body.

Subjects should and should not use deer velvet

Although this drug brings many nutritional values ​​and benefits to the body, but not everyone can use it. Before deciding to buy deer velvet, you should pay attention to who should and should not use the following:

1. Subjects should use deer velvet

• Children grow slowly, suffer from rickets, change appetite, are malnourished and are short for their age.
• Women with infertility, difficulty conceiving, having a cold uterus, suffer from sexual apathy.
• Men with weak physiology, decreased libido, premature ejaculation, diluted sperm, …
• Elderly, using deer velvet will help slow down the aging process, prevent chronic diseases and increase bone strength.
• People who play sports, do hard physical labor or those who have high frequency of mental activities, often under stress or stress.
• People suffering from diseases related to bones and joints.
• Thin pale, weak body, anemic, after surgery or just getting sick.

Subject should not use deer velvet

• Pregnant women, nursing mothers and young children should not use this to avoid unwanted side effects.
• People with high blood pressure, hot liver, severe nephritis, gout (gout) .
• People with an allergy to deer antler velvet can cause itchiness.
• People with heat damage are accompanied by signs of fear of heat, sweating, afternoon fever, constipation.
• People with blood loss, bronchitis, yellow sputum, valve stenosis, fever, bloating, diarrhea, or bloating.

How to use deer velvet correctly

Currently on the market there are 2 main types of deer velvet: fresh and dried velvet. However, in order to use deer velvet properly, both promote high efficiency and ensure safety for your health, you can refer to the following usage:

1. Use fresh deer velvet

To use fresh deer velvet, be sure to shave off the outer layer of velvet. Because if preliminary processing to leave the velvet hair, when eaten, it will lead to enteritis or gastrointestinal inflammation. Especially, deer hair enteritis is extremely difficult to cure.

Deer velvet has high nutritional value, so you can use deer velvet to cook porridge, cook soup, soak in medicinal alcohol, steam with rice or soak with honey to use gradually.

• Making porridge: The deer velvet is sliced ​​into thin slices and grinded. When making porridge, give 1 teaspoon to cook together and eat hot 1-2 times a day.
• Cooking soup: Thinly sliced ​​deer velvet, chopped and put in a bowl of hot soup to eat. Each time should only eat from 0.5 – 3g velvet.
• Deer velvet in wine: Thai or thinly split deer velvet, bring directly soaked with glutinous wine at the rate of 100g soaked with 0.65 liters of wine over 45 degrees within 1 month. In addition, it can be combined with other medicinal herbs such as mandarin orangutan, goji berries, three sizes, humiliation, lacquer or tuber, …
• Deer velvet in honey: Thinly sliced ​​deer velvet, soaked with honey at the rate of 100g of velvet with 250ml of honey. Every day take about 1/2 small cup of rice water to steam for 10 minutes and eat 2 times / day.

Note: When using fresh deer velvet, it is best to use it immediately or to store it in the freezer to keep it fresh and rich in nutrients.

2. Use dried deer velvet

Compared to fresh deer velvet, dried deer velvet is more convenient, since they have been thoroughly prepared and completely dried and powdered from dried velvet can also be used.

• Making porridge: Sliced ​​deer velvet, bring it dry to crispy and then grind. Then take about 5 – 10g of velvet to cook with porridge every day.
• Steaming or omitting eggs: You can use deer velvet powder mixed with eggs to steam or rinse normally at the ratio of 05 – 1g of velvet powder with 1 egg. Used to eat early in the morning on an empty stomach and eat continuously for 1 month.
• Soak in wine: Dried velvet is chopped, taking about 100g of dried velvet soaked with 1.5 liters of delicious wine within 1 month.
• Making tea: The deer velvet is sliced ​​into thin slices, then brought to boil and made into tea to drink.

Note: Dried deer velvet is easy to preserve, so you only need to store it in a sealed jar, keep in a cool place, avoid extreme heat or mold.

Dosage used deer velvet

Any medicine or processing material, when used, needs to comply with the prescribed dosage, avoiding abuse so as not to have undesirable side effects.

• For fresh velvet buds: If used for treatment, it can be used from 3 to 8g / time or up to 10g / time depending on each person’s condition.
• For dried velvet buds: When adults use it to treat, they can use 1-3g. As for children, the dose used is only 1/3 of the adult and used only when really needed.
• For wine-soaked velvet buds: Every day, use only 10-20ml, equivalent to 1-2 small cups (for adults).
• For honey-soaked velvet buds: Every day adults can use 2-3 teaspoons of solution with 2-3 slices of antler velvet. Children take 1/3 of the adult dose.
• Eating or drinking deer velvet: Do not use deer velvet constantly. The best is about 2-3 days should use 1 time and use in 2-3 weeks, then take a week off.

Some remedies from deer velvet

In folklore, deer velvet is not only known to be processed into healthy dishes, but can also be used for healing. Such as:

• Treatment of impotence, premature ejaculation: 20-40g of deer velvet, sliced ​​and soaked with alcohol for 7 days. Drink about 10-20ml per day.
• Treatment of back pain in pillow, sperm, sperm, women with hemorrhage, menorrhagia, bad gas: Take 6g of deer velvet and 30g of herbal paint soaked with 500ml of white wine for 10-15 days. Each day drink about 20-40ml of alcohol and divided into 2 drinks.
• Treatment of anemia, dizziness, headache, tinnitus: Crush 200g of deer velvet into a fine powder for daily drinking, once a day, from 1 – 3g.
• Treatment of rickets, malnutrition in children: Use processed deer velvet powder. Every day for children to drink from 1 – 2.5g powder and divided into 2 doses.
• Treatment of impotence accompanied by a lot of urination, night urination: Bring red velvet buds with white wine and then blend it into a fine powder and store in a sealed box. Bring color with 20g of prostitution to achieve effect. Each drink is about 0.8 – 1.2g of powder with the color of yin yang.
• Treatment of gonorrhea, fire, causing infertility in women: Prepare 80g deer velvet, humiliated, and cast into powder. Use daily about 8 – 12g.
• Treatment of fever in the afternoon, sweat stealing, anxiety, fear: 40g each including velvet bud, extra alcohol. Make all the powder into fine powder and divide it into 4 parts. To increase efficiency, add 10 more slices of birth khong, bring water color and drink with powdered medicine while still warm.
• Treatment of damaged marrow, soft bones, weak limbs: Bring all of the following ingredients into fine powder (1g velvet buds, 15g olives, 10g mulberry mistletoe, 10g mantis nest on mulberry tree, 10g white Thuy, 10g ginseng , 10g dong quai, 10g dragon fruit) mixed with honey to wash members. Drink 2 times a day, each time 3-5g.

Side effects of antler velvet

Deer velvet is very healthy if used in the right way with the right dosage. On the contrary, using the wrong dose can cause some side effects such as:

• Enteritis, inflammation of the digestive tract: This unfortunate condition occurs due to not knowing how to prepare or use it when there is a feather left.
• Chipped meat: This condition occurs in case of overuse of velvet.
• Early development: Giving the child too much velvet or if the baby is healthy but still giving it will cause the child to develop early.
• Baldness: Improper use also leads to baldness.
• Acne, itchy skin: The warmth of velvet can cause the body to produce heat and breakout. When you experience this condition, you should go to the nearest medical facility to see you.

How much does deer velvet cost?

In fact, the price of deer velvet is often influenced by several factors:

• Deer velvet: As mentioned above, deer velvet is divided into four categories. In which, velvet blood has the highest price and the antler velvet has the lowest price.
• Status: Including fresh deer velvet, dried deer velvet and processed deer velvet (velvet powder, velvet antler, velvet ball, …).
• Origin: This is a factor that significantly affects the price.

1. Domestic deer velvet prices

• Fresh velvet blood: The price ranges from 1,300,000 – 1,500,000 VND per 100g.
• Saddle Velvet: Ranging from 1,200,000 – 1,400,000 VND per 100g.
• Hard branched fresh deer velvet: Priced from 1,100,000 – 1,300,000 VND per 100g.
• Deer velvet in dried, sliced ​​or powder form: Price from 1,800,000 – 2,000,000 VND per 100g.
• Cooked deer velvet to high: Price is about 500,000 for 100g.

2. Imported deer velvet prices from abroad

• Fresh deer velvet: 1,400,000 VND / 100g.
• Premium Pankal Dried Deer Velvet: 1.900.000 VND / 100g.
• Pantogematogen deer blood price: 3,000,000 VND / 100g, 1kg will cost 13,000,000 VND.
• Dried deer blood – Gemolen: Price 2,900,000 VND / 100g.
• Ban Long: Price is 1,200,000 VND / 100g.
• Siberian deer antlers: Price 800,000 VND / unit.

Where should buy deer velvet?

To avoid buying the wrong quality deer velvet, consumers need to wisely choose reputable sale addresses. Here are the units that sell quality, reputable deer velvet that you can consult:

• Center for Research and Cultivation of Medicinal Materials Vietfarm: No. 48 To Huu, Nam Tu Liem District, Hanoi.
• Tamsoa Trading Joint Stock Company: No. 27/90 Khuat Duy Tien, Nhan Chinh ward, Thanh Xuan district, Hanoi.
• Altai Sibiri Production and Trading Joint Stock Company: No. 43E, adjacent to Nhat street, Group 1, Nhan Chinh ward, Thanh Xuan district, Hanoi.
• Tam Viet Investment and Production Company Limited : No. 4/152 Hao Nam Street, Dong Da, Hanoi.
• Eco Siberia Vietnam Co., Ltd: VP6 Linh Dam Building, Hoang Liet Ward, Hoang Mai District, Hanoi.

How to distinguish real deer velvet – fake

As can be seen, deer velvet is a commodity that is being sought by a lot of people, so on the market there are many types of fake and poor quality velvet buds. Before looking to buy deer velvet, you also need to refer to some identifiers to distinguish real and fake goods:

1. Real deer velvet

• When holding up, you will smell the fishy smell of plasma.
• Velvet body is pale pink or rose yellow.
• The outer coat is thin and velvety, and difficult to remove by hand.
• The sliced ​​deer velvet will have flat, smooth and evenly sized slices. When tasting, it will smell fishy, ​​slightly salty and sweet.
• The slice will be bright red and have many tiny holes.

2. Fake deer velvet

• The size of the deer velvet is short, few branches, when heavy.
• The stump of velvet bud, when cut, has a dark red streak of dye and a small hole in the blood vessel is invisible.
• Velvet body is white yellow or light yellow.
• The outer coat is hard, rough and flaky.

Note when using deer velvet

To be able to maximize the inherent uses of deer velvet, during use you need to pay attention to the following issues:

• Use velvet as directed and exactly as prescribed by your doctor. Should only be used as needed and discontinued after 2-3 weeks. Overuse or abuse will cause cracking.
• Processing velvet snow properly to avoid pathogenesis. When used to soak in alcohol, it is necessary to shave the hair thoroughly so as not to enteritis or digestive tract inflammation.
• Do not arbitrarily combine bud antler with any medicinal herbs without consulting a specialist doctor.
• Choose a reputable deer velvet establishment, avoid buying fake and poor quality goods that can endanger your health.
• Do not arbitrarily use velvet antler to treat improper illness or healthy body.

This article has compiled complete information about the curative effects and correct usage of deer velvet. Although deer velvet is very healthy, but during its use you need to be careful and use it properly to ensure safety for health.