When faced with antler from friends and relatives, many people may be in a difficult position. Antler is indeed a good thing, but do you know if you are suitable to eat it and how to eat it if you can? Deer antler is the young unboned antlers of the deer or stag, and it has the effect of tonifying the qi and blood, eliminating fatigue, prolonging life and fighting against old age, and treating all kinds of deficiencies. Antler is said to contain 25 amino acids and many vitamins, which can improve the immune system and promote blood production. However, Chinese medicine considers deer antler to be a hot tonic, and it is suitable for people with a cold constitution (manifested by symptoms such as fear of cold, cold hands and feet, and cold pain in the stomach and epigastrium). Most people who feel hot and dry, have dry mouth, bitter mouth, dry stools, red eyes, irritability, high blood pressure and diabetes are hot and should not consume antler. In addition, because deer antler is a blood tonic, cancer patients with low blood count after radiotherapy can also take deer antler to raise the concentration of white blood cells and red blood cells in the blood. If young people without Yang deficiency take this product, it may cause side effects such as general dryness and heat, dry mouth and lips and even nose bleeding, mouth and tongue sores, etc. Young people need to use it with caution according to their condition. So, how to eat deer antler at home? The following are some recommended ways to eat it. The most common way to eat antler is to make soup. Take 5-10 grams of antler slices, combine it with chicken (duck, goose, pigeon, pig, cow, sheep) meat, jujube, wolfberry, lotus seed, lily, angelica, ginseng, etc. and stew it in a rice cooker or casserole for 3-5 hours, then eat it. If you want to make it easy and convenient and absorb it quickly, you can choose to make a tea with deer antler and chew it at the end, 0.5~1 grams each time, you can drink it every other day and it will be beneficial for several months. The dose of deer antler can be increased as a treatment for diseases, or according to medical advice. In addition, deer antler tablets (powder) and japonica rice (or millet) can be boiled to make porridge, 0.5~1 gram each time, and taken once a day. Or in the morning or evening when eating porridge, mix in a little antler powder and stir well. For those who like to drink wine, it is a good idea to make a medicinal wine from deer antler. For those who like to drink wine, it is a good idea to make your own wine using the cold infusion method. The specific practice is to put deer antler (30-50 grams) or a compound containing other drugs into a bottle, add 500-1000 ml of white wine, store it airtight, and shake the bottle every two or three days so that the active ingredients are fully precipitated, usually for half a month before drinking. According to the size of the plain wine, each time to drink 10 to 20 ml ranging. If you don’t have much wine, you can also drink a small amount of medicinal wine to double the amount of plain water, diluted. After drinking the infused wine, you can continue to add 1000 ml of white wine, and then infuse and drink until the drug is tasteless. It should be noted that patients with liver or kidney damage, gastritis or peptic ulcers should not use the dosage of medicinal wine for tonic purposes. A unique Korean method of consumption is also available: put antler and herbs such as angelica, ginseng, astragalus, wolfberry, eucommia, cistanches, dogwood, schisandra, schisandra, poria, bacopa, cinnamon, atractylodes, licorice, and atractylodes together, decoct them for 4-6 hours, condense them into a jelly form, and then consume them every morning on an empty stomach.