Pilose antler, a traditional TCM, is the unossifying young pilose antler of male Cervus nip port Temminck or Cervus elaphus Linnaeus. Pilose antler is sawed in summer and autumn and dried after processing. Pilose antler tastes sweet and is warm in nature, with the efficacy of strengthening kidney-yang, benefiting essence and blood, strengthening the bones and muscles, regulating thoroughfare and conception vessels, and expressing the toxin of sores. It is used to treat insufficiency of kidney-yang, blood and essence asthenia, impotence and spermatorrhea, cold in uterus and infertility, marked emaciation, spiritual fatigue, fear of cold, dizziness, tinnitus, deafness, lumbar spine crymodynia, weak muscles and bones, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis and leukorrhea, and lasting dorsal furuncle. According to modern research, chemical components of pilose antler mainly include the metallic elements, protein, polypeptide, growth factor, amino acids, saccharides and bioamine, etc. needed by humans.
