What is Lu Jiao Shuang?
Cervi Cornu Degelatinatum Lu Jiao Shuang 鹿角霜 are the dregs after boiling antler glue. It is sweet and slightly warm and has less of an ability to tonify Jing and Blood. It has a stronger retaining effect and is used for Cold Deficient uterine bleeding and vaginal discharge. It can be used topically for bleeding.
What is Zhi Fu Zi?
Use of prepared aconite (Zhi Fu Zi) in TCM Main actions according to TCM*: Raises the collapse of Yang. Warms the meridians and relieves pain caused by Cold. This is a toxic herb so it shouldn’t be taken in large doses and it needs to be prepared adequately by a TCM professional before ingestion.
What is Gui ban?
Gui Ban augments the Kidney Yin, unblocks the Ren Channel, subdues the Yang, tonifies the Blood and stops bleeding. It is best for Yin Deficiency Heat or Blood Heat causing continuous uterine bleeding.
What is deer antlers?
Antlers are extensions of an animal’s skull found in members of the Cervidae (deer) family. Antlers are a single structure composed of bone, cartilage, fibrous tissue, skin, nerves, and blood vessels. They are generally found only on males, with the exception of reindeer/caribou.
What is deer antler velvet used for?
Deer velvet covers the growing bone and cartilage that develops into deer antlers. People use deer velvet as medicine for a wide range of health problems. Deer velvet is used to boost strength and endurance, improve the way the immune system works, counter the effects of stress, and promote rapid recovery from illness.
What is Plastrum Testudinis?
As a widely used Chinese medicine, Carapax et Plastrum Testudinis refers to processed medicinal tablets that are made from the carapace of Chinemys reevesii, which are members of the Testudinidae family (Chinese Pharmacopoeia, 2015).
Is antlers about a Wendigo?
Produced by Oscar-winner Guillermo del Toro and based on the short story by Nick Antosca, Antlers is the bleak story about the insidious nature of trauma that takes the form of the Wendigo who brutally annihilates anyone who happens to come its way.
Why do antlers have velvet?
During the early spring, the pedicles grow two little stubs of bone wrapped in sensitive skin called velvet. The velvet around the stubs of antlers provides the blood and oxygen that the antlers need to fully mature. After they have fully grown, you will see the antlers of the whitetail deer in velvet.
Does deer velvet increase testosterone?
“Deer antler velvet increases your own testosterone naturally,” Lentini said. “It doesn’t increase testosterone levels like crazy. It does it naturally.” Lentini also refuted the allegation that athletes have tested positive for performance enhancement drugs while using Antler Velvet Max.