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Deer antler, ginseng, and deer penis are classified as medicine or health care? We are not sure here at the FDA.

Deer antler, dendrobium, cordyceps, ginseng are belong to the medicines, can also be used as health food.

1, deer antler: the young horns of the stag did not grow into hard bones, with velvet, containing blood, called deer antler. Is a valuable Chinese medicine, used as a tonic and strong agent, for weakness, neurasthenia and other therapeutic effects. For commonly used Chinese medicine, "Shennong Ben Cao Jing" is listed as the middle product. Because the original animal is different, is divided into flower deer antler (yellow antler) and horse deer antler (green antler) two kinds; because of the different harvesting methods are divided into two kinds of cut antler and saw antler; because of the number of branches and young and old different, can be divided into a saddle, two bars, hanging horns, three forks, flower cut antler, Lotus and so on a variety of.

2, ginseng, perennial herbaceous plants, preferring cool, moist climate, growing in the small temperature difference between day and night at an altitude of 500 ~ 1100 meters in the mountainous areas of gentle slopes or slopes of mixed coniferous and broad forests or mixed forests. Because the root is fat, spindle-shaped, often forked, the whole appearance is quite similar to the human head, hands, feet and limbs, so it is called ginseng. In ancient times, ginseng was known as Huang Jing, Earth Essence, and God Grass. Ginseng is known as the "king of all herbs" and is one of the famous "three treasures of Northeast China" (ginseng, mink skin and antler), which is a famous and valuable medicinal material known to both young and old. Geographic distribution: Jilin, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Hebei (Wuling Mountain, Du Shan), Shanxi, Hubei.

3, deer whip, Chinese medicine. Also known as deer kidney, deer punch. Sika deer whip, mainly produced in Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei and other places; horse deer whip, mainly produced in Heilongjiang, Jilin, Inner Mongolia and other places.