Antler Gelatin

鹿角胶 Lu Jiao Jiao

Name

Lu Jiao Jiao (Deerhorn glue)

Property

Sweet, salty, warm; liver and kidney meridians entered.

Actions

Nourish blood and tonify essence.

Indications

Lumbago, morbid leucorrhea, thin and weak due to asthenic disease, deficiency of kidney-qi, impotence, spermatorrhea, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, cold uterus, dorsal furuncle.

Dosage and administration

Melt by boiling water or millet wine, 3 g per time, 3 times a day. It also can be made into pill and powder.

Cations

It is contraindicated for yin-deficiency leading to hyperactivity of yang.