Deer Placenta

Traditional Use

Primary Actions

• Warms and supplements Kidney Yang and essence - Lu Tai is regarded as a blood-and-flesh tonic used for exhaustion, weak low back and knees, cold infertility patterns, and reproductive debility rooted in deep deficiency rather than excess.
• Supports fertility and uterine warmth in deficiency-cold patterns - later gynecologic use emphasizes Lu Tai for irregular menses, cold womb infertility, and long-standing weakness with poor reproductive vigor.
• Assists fatigue and wasting from chronic deficiency - traditional use extends to severe tiredness, emaciation, and lack of strength when constitutional depletion is the larger picture.

Secondary Actions

• Compared with more common deer products such as Lu Rong and Lu Jiao Jiao, Lu Tai is usually described as a richer but narrower specialty tonic reserved for deeper reproductive and jing depletion.
• Because it is an animal product with strong supplementing character, most traditional use is formula-based rather than casual single-herb self-use.

Classic Formulas

• Lu Tai Wan - later gynecologic patent-formula tradition using Lu Tai for menstrual weakness, cold uterus, and infertility from deficiency-cold.
• Kidney-and-blood tonic combinations with Ren Shen, Shu Di Huang, Dang Gui, and Lu Rong - common pairing logic when the goal is to warm essence, enrich blood, and restore reproductive strength.

Classical References

• Modern TCM herb summaries consistently place Lu Tai in the Kidney-Yang tonic category and describe it as a warming, essence-supplementing animal substance used mainly for infertility, weakness, and cold-type gynecologic disorders.
• Trade and formula literature in Chinese medicine often treats Lu Tai as a stronger specialty tonic for constitutional and reproductive depletion rather than as a routine daily tonic.