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Ginseng and antler are the best products for nourishing and strengthening, and the price is much more expensive than the general tonic drugs, therefore, a reasonable and correct way of serving can often receive half of the efficacy of the medicine. Taking ginseng and antler in a variety of ways, the family tonic to health care for the purpose, according to their respective economic situation, food conditions, working environment and ordinary habits, choose both convenient and affordable, and the therapeutic effect of a good method. Such as traveling, often oral ginseng tablets, can eliminate fatigue, people's spirits increased. If you like to drink wine, you can choose to make medicine wine, if you like to drink tea, you can make medicine tea, and if you don't have any hobby, you can make ginseng and antler medicinal diet. There are several ways to take ginseng and antler as follows: (a) make medicinal tea Medicinal tea therapy is one of the traditional treatment methods of Chinese medicine. This method has the advantages of simple and convenient production and faster attraction. Usually, ginseng is wrapped in a clean, wet cloth for about half a day to make it soft, then cut into thin slices and placed in the sun or dried under the sunlight can be. When using, each time as few as three or five pieces, more than ten pieces, into the cup of tea with boiling water, cover the cup tightly, warm immersion for a few minutes, that is, when the tea to drink, or with other sweet taste of tonic drugs into a prescription, at the same time steep drinking. After a number of steeping, until the juice is tasteless, then you can chew the dregs of ginseng and swallow. As for the ginseng, ginseng, as long as a little broken, you can directly drink and take. Clean ginseng leaves can be brewed and taken by rubbing them until they are crushed. Ginseng flowers can be taken directly by infusion. Comparatively speaking, ginseng beard, ginseng leaves and ginseng flowers should be used in larger quantities, otherwise, the efficacy will be much less. Because the antler product itself is in the form of thin slices, it can be directly brewed and consumed as a tea, and finally chewed and swallowed. As a health care tea to drink, single drug serving, ginseng a day amount of about 2 grams appropriate, antler to 0.3 to 0.5 grams of good, can be used every other day drinking method, do not have to serve every day. Adhere to a few months, will help. As a treatment of disease using tea therapy, ginseng, antler dosage, can be appropriately increased, or according to medical advice dosage. (ii) Containing and chewing As mentioned before, ancient medical practitioners have the practice of tasting ginseng to determine its authenticity. The method of containing and chewing ginseng is highly favored in the past and present. It is reported that Empress Dowager Cixi often chewed American ginseng to swallow the ginseng and benefit her life. Containing is not limited by place, condition and environment. Specific practice is: ginseng or American ginseng cut into thin slices, dried in the sun, into a clean bottle. Take one or two slices of ginseng under the tongue with the help of saliva to soak it through, and then swallow the fluid to seek the medicinal effect. At first, it is slightly bitter, then sweet, until the taste of the medicine is thin, and then chewed and swallowed. Ginseng whiskers, ginseng strips and antlers are more suitable to be taken by chewing. The dosage can be referred to the brewing of medicinal tea. (C) decoction porridge health care and therapeutic nature of the medicine porridge, in our country has been passed down for a long time. As early as in the pre-Qin period, there are records of using medicinal porridge to treat diseases. Under the guidance of the basic theories of traditional Chinese medicine, ginseng, antler mainly with other tonic drugs, and rice and cereals, and then add the appropriate seasonings, with the cooking for porridge, tonic service, is a more ideal therapeutic method. Ginseng, antler porridge, usually there are two kinds of practices: one is the ginseng, antler thin slice of direct and round-grained rice and water decoction, porridge to eat, and finally the residue of ginseng and antler will be chewed and swallowed; the other is the ginseng or antler processed into a powder, in the early morning or at night porridge, mixing into a small amount of powder stirred and uniformly after you can use. Each 10 grams of ginseng powder for health care medicine porridge, can be divided into 10 to 15 times served. 1 gram of antler powder for 2 to 3 times served. (D) decoction of the decoction of the drug after repeated decoction, concentrated and add honey (or rock sugar, brown sugar) and become a thick paste, because it has a good tonic effect, it is customarily referred to as "cream". Cream is generally honey as an excipient. Honey not only has a good flavor correction effect, but also has a tonic and nutritional value. In addition, after boiling, there is a certain antiseptic effect. The general practice is to ginseng or antler (usually not used alone, when the compound dose should follow the doctor's instructions) and other fitness tonic drugs, respectively, into two pots, soak in cold water for 1 to 2 hours, and then add water above the surface of the medicine about 10 centimeters, the fire decocted for about an hour, the decoction is filtered, this is the first decoction. According to this method, the decoction time can be shorter than a decoction, respectively, to collect the second and third decoction of the liquid, and then squeeze the dregs of the medicine with clean gauze, combined three decoctions and extraction of liquid, let stand for half a day, the supernatant is filtered with gauze, followed by a fire decoction and concentrated to about 500 milliliters, and then add an equal amount of honey, and then switch to a gentle fire, simmering to the extent that the drops of water into a bead, which is to become a paste. After the decoction of ginseng and antler dregs, can be chewed. Then put the boiled and cooled cream into a clean dark-colored bottle and store it in a cool and dry place or put it into the refrigerator. It is very convenient to take the poultice. Take 1 to 2 spoons each time with a clean spoon and drink it with boiled water, or take it directly into the mouth. In order to store the paste for a long time without deterioration, it is best to add an appropriate amount of preservatives. (E) steeping medicinal wine medicinal wine in China has a history of thousands of years, because it is easy to save, it is very popular. Medicinal wine is used containing ethanol 50% to 70% (50 to 70 degrees) of white wine as a solvent, soaked drugs and become. Internal medicinal wine is mostly flavored with sugar or honey. Ancient healers held wine in high esteem because wine itself is a medicine that can cure diseases. It has the efficacy of opening the blood vessels, nourishing the spleen and qi, thickening the stomach and intestines, moistening the skin, removing the cold, and traveling the medicinal potential, etc. Moreover, wine is also a good solvent. There are numerous commercially available ginseng and antler medicinal wines, and it is easy to make ginseng and antler medicinal wines at home. It is more appropriate to make ginseng and ginseng antler medicinal wine by cold soaking method. Specific approach is to ginseng or antler, or containing other drugs compound, into the bottle, add 500 to 1000 ml of white wine, plus airtight storage, every two or three days to shake the bottle, so that its active ingredients fully precipitated, generally to soak half a month to drink. According to the size of the amount of alcohol, each drink 10 to 50 milliliters. If you don't have a lot of alcohol, you can also dilute a small amount of medicinal wine with double the amount of plain water and drink it. To soak the medicinal wine after drinking, you can continue to add about 1000 ml of white wine, and then soak and drink, until the drug is tasteless. It is worth pointing out that, where the plain liver, kidney damage to the disease or gastritis and peptic ulcer patients, are not suitable for the choice of medicinal wine form of tonic. (F) Bulk swallowing Break ginseng into pieces, sun-dried or dried, deer antler is dried directly, processed into powder, or go to the pharmacy to buy ready-made ginseng powder or deer antler powder, loaded into pre-prepared hollow capsules, placed in airtight containers, placed in a cool and airtight place. Take 1 to 2 capsules each time with plain water. You can also put the powder directly in your mouth and take it with other medicinal liquid, porridge or warm water. The dosage can be referred to the tea drinking article. (VII) Steam rice taking When steaming rice, put clean ginseng slices on the rice, after steaming, the ginseng juice naturally penetrates into the rice, while eating rice, you can chew the ginseng slices. Do not burn the ginseng slices by sinking them to the bottom of the pot by mistake, so that the ginseng will lose its effectiveness. (H) medicinal dietary adjustments, medicine and food are the same source, drugs and food are inseparable. "Food therapy", "food supplement" doctrine, in our country health science has always occupied a certain position, and by the people's favorite. Medicinal diet is a combination of drugs and food, through cooking, processed into a disease prevention and treatment, health care and longevity effects of delicious food. The medicinal diet, the ancients advocated, for thousands of households to adopt the therapeutic approach, stretching over thousands of years and inherited today. Family health care, taking ginseng and antler in a variety of ways, and often with other nutritious and tonic effect of drugs with each other, or stewed, or simmered, or fried, or boiled, made of soup, cakes, rice, dishes, etc., not only nutritious, but also can prevent and cure diseases, improve health. Attention 1. Whether red ginseng or sun-dried ginseng, it should be consumed in a gradual and orderly manner, and should not be rushed or taken in excess. 2. Pay attention to seasonal changes, generally speaking, it is better to consume ginseng when the weather is cool in fall and winter, and it is better to consume western ginseng when the weather is hot in summer. In short, as long as we master the above methods of consumption and precautions, a small ginseng can make us strong and healthy, and prolong life.