Lu Rong
| Lu Rong in TCM:Explore the properties of Lu Rong according to Chinese
Nutrition and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM):
Factoids:
English Name: deer antler, hairy deer horn, hairy antler
Pharmacuetical Name: Cornu Cervi Pantotrichum
Properties: sweet, salty, warm
Temperature: warm
Channels: KD, LV
Flavors: sweet, salty
Tonifies: blood, yang
Actions / Indications:
- Tonifies the KD and fortifies the Yang (low sex drive,
male infertility, fatigue, impotence, cold extremities; light headedness,
tinnitus, hearing loss; sore and lack of strength of low back and knees,
difficult to heal fractures, early selinity; frequent clear copious
urination)
- Nourishes essence and blood; strengthens bones and sinews
(severe blood deficiency with yang deficiency; development disorders
in children)
- Regulates Chong and Ren; Stabilizes Dai ( infertility
due to cold womb; deficient cold vaginal discharge of uterine bleeding)
- Promotes pus discharge; generates flesh (internally
or topically for chronic ulcerations; yin-type boils)
- (cc: yin deficient heat; heat in blood level; phlegm-heat in Lung;
blazing ST fire, warm-febrile disease)
- (cc: overdose can cause yang to rise with inner wind, dizziness, red
eyes)
Special Notes:
- According to the Materia Medica deer are considered among the most helpful animals to tonify yang and jing (essence).
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