Can you eat deer antler during menstruation?

If the patient has late menstruation, dysmenorrhea, scanty and light-colored menstruation, he/she can take deer antler under doctor’s supervision, otherwise it is not recommended to take it. Specifically need to follow the doctor’s advice. Deer antler for the deer family animal male sika deer or horse deer head is not ossified dense velvet young horns. Taste sweet, salty, warm. It belongs to the kidney and liver meridians. Its effects are to tonify the kidney, strengthen the yang (the role of tonifying kidney yang), benefit the essence and blood, strengthen the muscles and bones, regulate the Chong Ren, and support the sores and poisons. Deer antler can be used to treat kidney yang deficiency (lack of yang energy in the kidneys), deficiency of essence and blood, fatigue (lack of mental energy), lethargy, fear of cold, vertigo, tinnitus and deafness, cold pain in the waist and knees, soreness of tendons and bones, sores and ulcers that do not heal after prolonged ulceration; infertility in females, deficiency of the Chong Ren (lack of yang energy that cannot warm the Chong Ren and Ren Chakras), discharges of the vaginal canal (menstrual bleeding that occurs in excessive quantities or drips and drops) and spermatorrhea, and impotence and spermatorrhea in males. Deer antler is recommended to start with a small dose and increase slowly, not to be used in large quantities, so as to avoid Yang rising and wind movement, dizziness and red eyes (dizziness and red eyes), and injury to Yin and blood. Note that it is contraindicated in cases of heat, yin deficiency and hyperactivity of yang (deficiency of yin fluid and hyperactivity of yang), and the adverse effects are not yet clear. It is recommended to consult a healthcare professional if required.