Abstract

The Sika Deer is a valuable and traditional animal that has been used for its medicinal properties for over 2,000 years in China, making its first appearance in the Shennong’s Classic of the Materia Medica during the Han Dynasty. Modern research has shown that the main by-products of Sika Deer are rich in a variety of active ingredients, including free amino acids, peptides, chondroitin sulphate, prostaglandins, phospholipids, hormones, biogenic amines, inorganic elements, etc. The effects of Sika Deer are extremely wideranging. Its efficacy is also extremely wide, such as the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease, physical fitness, delay aging, enhance immunity. From human consumption of venison and blood treatment of disease, has been a history of thousands of years, deer products have been basically formed. Deer products have basically formed a system and scale that can be used for food or medicine. Deer products refer to the products and products of various deer species of the deer family, with antlers, blood, whips, tires, bones and meat as raw materials are widely used in food, medicine, health food and other industries. In recent years, there have been many researches on the chemical composition analysis, pharmacological effects and clinical effects of the main by-products of deer, and the main by-products of deer have shown good medicinal value and have a broad market prospect. The biological effects of antler, fetus, heart, blood and whip were reviewed to summarize their biological effects and to improve the social, economic and biological values of Sika deer. And biological value of the plum blossom deer, so as to provide theoretical references for subsequent research.

Keywords

Antler deer, nutrients, chinese medicine, growth and metabolism