Wiseman’s Chinese Medical Database

lù jiǎo shuāng / 鹿角霜 / 鹿角霜 / degelatinated deer antler;

Latin pharmacognostic name: Cervi Cornu Degelatinatum

Alternate English names: degelatinated deer horn

Alternate Chinese names:

Origin: Animal

Use: medicinal

Category: Supplementing agents / Yáng-supplementing agents

Properties: Salty; warm; nontoxic*.

Channel entry: liver and kidney channels.

Indications:

Supplements vacuity and reinforces yáng.

insufficiency of kidney yáng; pain in the lumbar spine; spleen-stomach vacuity cold; vomiting and retching; reduced food intake and sloppy stool.