How to distinguish a real deer antler velvet How to distinguish a real deer antler velvet from a fak

Deer antler identification.

Deer antler slices: usually he-shaped or oval-shaped, 1 4 cm in diameter, extremely thin. The outer skin is reddish-brown.

The surface of the saw edge is yellowish-white to brownish-yellow, with an obvious annular bone or no on the periphery, darker in color, with honeycomb pores inside, widening or cavitary in the middle, and some are brown. Lightweight, hard and brittle. The smell is slightly fishy and salty.

Generally speaking, deer antler tablets are superior to those with light body, honeycomb cross-section, and dense tissue. The ancients had accumulated rich experience in identifying deer antler tablets. As contained in the book "Identification of Counterfeit Drugs".

The top of the mushroom, the first layer is as white as wax, oily as fat, and the name is wax tablets; The secondary layer is white and yellow, and the pure blood is permeated in it, so the name is called the blood piece; The most sub-layer piece has honeycomb, the color is purple and black through the holes, the name is called the wind piece, the vulgar cloud wood is through, such as the empty pass of the wood. The most inferior bone is adjacent, similar to the same angle, called bone fragment, and the effect is the thinnest. It can be seen that the essence of its discrimination is clear, and the analysis is clear.

In the modern medicinal material commodity market, the slices of deer antler velvet are often cut near the top, which is called "blood tablets". The blood slices are about 1 mm thick, honey-colored, slightly ruddy, and smooth on one side. I call the deer antler velvet a "flake" when I cut it off.

The powder sheet is about millimeters thick, grayish-white, powdered, one-sided light, with fine pores, purple and black around the skin, and has a fishy smell. The "sand piece" is close to the bone end, with rough one side and honeycomb pores. Blood tablets are very effective, **expensive, powder tablets are second, ** are also cheaper, and sand tablets are secondary.

The bone fragment is "closest to the bone end, and the quality is worse than that of the sand piece."

First of all, it is important to make sure that both are slices of deer antler velvet, and the parts are different. The first kind of deer antler velvet may be wax slices, because it is as bright as wax, so it is said that the wax slice is the top slice of deer antler velvet, and no deer antler velvet can only be cut into one or two slices, and its nutritional value is the first of other types of deer antler slices, ** is also remarkable. Expensive!

The second should be the legendary blood slice, that is, the red antler slice, which is the middle slice of the whole deer antler velvet, and one can only be cut into three or four pieces, which is also very rare! But it's cheaper! It is more cost-effective to use for soaking wine.

1. Look at the material.

The real deer antler velvet is cylindrical branched, with a branch is commonly known as "two bars", its main branch is commonly known as "big stiff", quite long 14 20 cm, the diameter of the saw mouth is about 3 cm, about 3 cm from the saw edge of the branch, the branch is 10 15 cm long, the diameter is slightly thinner than the main branch.

False deer antler velvet is mostly made of sawdust, glue, pigment into the shape of cylindrical branched antlers, pasted with other animal skins, some made into two bars, some made into three-forked, the outer skin is mostly gray-brown or gray-white, the surface has gray-white or light earthy brown sparse is cut into jagged short hairs, or mixed with black-brown hairs, and the lower part is surrounded or adhered to about 3 cm long hairs.

2. Look at the color.

The outer skin of real deer antler velvet is reddish-brown or brownish-brown, with reddish-yellow or brownish-yellow dense hairs on the surface, the upper end is denser, the lower part is thinner, there is a gray vein between the bifurcations, the fur is close to each other, there are honeycomb-like pores, and the periphery is not ossified.

The outer skin of false deer antler velvet is mostly gray-brown or gray-white, with gray-white or pale earthy brown sparse sparse hairs cut into jagged short hairs, interspersed with black-brown hairs, and the lower part is surrounded by hairs about 3 cm long.

3. Smell the smell.

The "saw edge" surface of false deer antler velvet is reddish-brown or tan gelatinous, the texture is tight, there is no honeycomb-like hole, it melts when it is burned with fire, it makes a "squeak" sound and smokes, the gas is peculiar and has a gelatinous smell, and it is disgusting to smell for a long time.

Many people will buy some deer antler tablets from the Northeast to replenish essence, but there are real and fake deer antler tablets, once you buy a fake, it will not only waste money but also cause some harm to the body, this guide tells you how to distinguish between real and fake deer antler tablets, hurry up and take a look.

01 Color.

Some people say that real deer antler slices are dark red or dark brown in color, while others say that they are light in color. This guide responsibly tells you that the outer layer of deer antler tablets is reddish-brown in color, which cannot be faked.

02 So, is it true that the overall color of deer antler slices is reddish-brown? If yes, don't buy it, it's fake, the outer skin of the antler slices is reddish-brown, but the inside is yellow-white to brownish-yellow, which is even more infame-infatuated.

03 At the broken section, the real deer antler slice can be seen to have a very obvious annular bone at the periphery, just like a honeycomb with fine holes and a cavity in the middle, and the fake deer antler slice is a whole, without these characteristics at all.

04 In addition, you can take a look at the shape of the antler slices, the shape of the real antler slices is only round or slightly oval, while the fake antler slices are more shaped, half-moon or irregular round.

Visual identification method, boiling method, water test method. The real deer antler slice is round, with honeycomb-like pores, the epidermis is brownish-red or brown, with gray-yellow hair, the edge is keratinized with low degree and no protrusions, the pores are tender, the gas is slightly fishy, and the taste is salty. Real deer antler slices do not deform when they are put into water, do not break when heated and stirred, and do not be soft or mushy when boiled.

Deer antler refers to the young horns of sika deer or red deer that are not ossified and hairy, and deer antler can be divided into flower antler and red deer antler according to the original animal.

When the buck reaches a certain age, it will grow horns on its head, and when it first appears, it is as tender as a spring shoot, and there is a layer of delicate and fluffy young horns on the surface, that is, deer antler velvet.

The nutrients of deer antler velvet include phospholipids, glycolipids, colloidal lipids, hormones, fatty acids, amino acids, proteins, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, sodium, etc.