Studies on Deer Horn (I) Free Amino acids of Deer Horn Water Extract

녹용에 관한 연구 (제 1 보) 녹용수침액의 유리아미노산에 대하여

Six kinds of free amino acids, leucine, methionine, threonine, lysine, histidine and aspartic acid were found by using partition paper chromatography from water extract of deer horn which is widely used as tonic drug. The results shows that deer horn does not contain any specific free amino acid.