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Pilose
Antler (lu rong)
Cornu
Cervi Pantotrichum
Properties: Sweet
and salty in flavour, warm in nature, it is tropistic to
the liver and kidney channels. Being sweet, salty, warm
and moist in property, this drug is capable of reinforcing
kidney-yang and replenishing vital essence and blood. When
muscles and bones are nourished by essence and blood, they
will become strong. Thus this drug is an important remedy
in this respect. It serves to treat syndromes of
insufficiency of kidney-yang and consumption of vital
essence and blood manifested as weak extremities and five
retardations in children (delayed standing, walking,
hair-growing, tooth eruption and faculty of speech).
Effects: Reinforcing
kidney-yang, supplementing essence and blood and
strengthening muscles and bones.
Indications:
1.
For insufficiency of kidney-yang and decline of the fire
from the gate of life manifested as cold pain in the loins
and knees, spermatorrhea, frequent micturation, impotence
and premature ejaculation, it is often used together with
Radix Ginseng, Fructus Lycii, Cortex Cinnamomi,Radix
Polygoni Multiflori, Placenta, etc. to supplement fire and
strengthen Yang, as in Hygeinic Bolus of Ginseng and
Pilose Antler（Shenrong
Weisheng Wan）and
Bolus of Whole Antler (Quanlu Wan).
2. For syndromes
of deficiency-cold in women’s lower-jiao, debility of
Chong and Ren meridians, metrorrhagia, metrostaxis,
leucorrhea,
infertility due to uterine coldness, etc. , it can be used
with herbs for warming meridians, dispelling cold, warming
uterus and regulating menstruation, such as Colla Corii
Asini, Redix Angelicae Sinensis, Pollen Typhae, Os
Sepiella seu Sep-Sppiae, Folium Artemisiae Argyi, Fructus
Psoraleae, Fructtus Schisandrae, etc.
3. For deficiency
of both liver and kidney, consumption of essence and blood
marked by dizziness, tinnitus insomnia, amnesia, weak
extremities and five retardation in children, it is often
used with Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata, Rhizoma Dioscoreae,
Fructus Corni, Cortex Acanthopanacis Radicis, Cortex
Eucommiae, Ramulus Loranthi, etc. to reinforce the kidney,
supplement essence, strengthen muscles and bones.
In addition, it
also can function in warming and tonifying Yang and
draining pus to treat chronic ulcer without healing and
deficiency-cold of Qi and blood.
Dosage and
Administration: 1-3g, around
into fine powder to be swallowed, three times a day, or
prepared in bolus and compound powder.
Precaution:
This
drug should be used in small dosage in order to avoid
helping pathogenic fire or bleeding. It is contraindicated
in syndrome of hyperactivity of Yang due to deficiency of
Yin.
Additional
Drugs:
Antler
(Cornu Cervi): It is ossified horn of the male deer or
stag, salty in flavour, warm in nature, and tropistic to
the liver and kidney channels; used to tonify the kidney,
invigorate Yang, and strengthen the muscles and bones, but
weaker in potency than pilose antler. When used
unprepared, it has an effect of promoting blood
circulation to subside swelling, and serves to treat
sores, carbuncles and other suppurative cutaneous
infections. Antler
Glue (Colla Cornus Cervi): It is dry glue pieces made
from decocted and concentrated antler. It functions in
supplementing kidney-yang and enriching vital essence and
blood. It is stronger in potency than antler but weaker
than pilose antler. it also has hemostatic effect for
deficiency-cold syndrome due to insufficiency of
kidney-yang and loss of blood. 5-10g
melted by heat for oral administration with water or used
in bolus, compound powder of ointment. Deglued
Antler Powder (Cornu Cervi Degelatinatum): The
residue from decoction of antler, weaker in power for
warming and recuperating the kidney-yang, but also has an
effect of astringency, serving to reat the syndrome of
debility of the lower-jiao manifested as spermatorrhea,
frequent micturation, metrorrhagia, metrostaxis and
leucorrhea. When used externally, it is astringent, can
stop bleeding for treatment of traumatic bleeding
(10-15g).
Air
ship 500 grams (about 1.1 pound) of
Pilose
Antler (lu rong......)
for your personnel use now for
US$38.65.
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