This product is the horn of the bovine saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica Linnaeus). Mainly produced in Xinjiang, Qinghai and other places. It can be caught all year round, but is best hunted in the fall. After catching, cut off the horns and dry them in the sun. When used, cut into thin slices, file or grind into juice.

[Property]

salty, cold. act on liver and heart channels.

[Efficacy]

Calming the liver and calming the wind, clearing heat and improving vision, clearing heat and removing toxin.

[Indications]

1. Used for internal stirring of liver wind and fright epilepsy convulsion. Antelope horn is cold in nature and has strong heat-clearing power. It is good at entering the liver and has good effects on clearing liver heat and relieving liver wind. Therefore, it is most suitable for extreme heat producing wind and is an important medicine for treating internal stirring of liver wind and fright epilepsy convulsion. For example, if it is used to treat warm febrile disease, high fever, unconsciousness and convulsive syncope convulsion due to excessive heat evil, extreme heat and wind, it is often used with Uncaria, Chrysanthemum Flower, Peony Root and other combinations of medicinals, namely Antelope Horn and Uncaria Decoction. It is used to treat epilepsy and palpitation due to fright, and can be used equally with Uncaria, Tabasheer, Curcuma Root, and Cinnabar.
2. Used for ascendant hyperactivity of liver yang, dizziness and dizzy vision. This product also has a significant liver-balancing effect and can be used with Abalone Shell, oyster shell, Gastrodia Tuber, etc. to pacify liver and subduing When used together with yang medicine, it has the effect of calming liver yang and stopping vertigo.
3. Used for up-flaming of liver fire, red eye headache. This product is good at clearing and purging liver fire, so it is suitable for treating symptoms such as headache, dizziness, red eye swelling and pain, and photophobia and tearing due to up-flaming of liver fire. Often combined with Gentian, Cassia Seed, Skullcap Root, etc. of medicinals, such as Antelope Horn Powder .
4. It is used to warm febrile disease, high fever unconsciousness and heat toxin spots. This product enters the heart and liver meridians, clears qi and blood, and has the effect of clearing heat and purging fire removing toxin. It is used to treat Rebing unconsciousness, high fever, mania, convulsion and other diseases. It is often combined with Gypsum, Calcitum and other medicinals, such as Purple Snow Bolus; used to treat heat toxin hair spots, mix this product into White Tiger Decoction to get the effect.
5. In addition, antelope horn is also used to treat lung heat cough and asthma. It can clear lung heat and relieve cough, such as Antelope Qingfei Powder. In recent years, antelope horn hydrolyzate injection has been used to treat pneumonia, influenza fever, measles and other fever diseases in children, and it has been effective.

Treatment of influenza, enterovirus, and various viral colds, Chinese medicine is more refined, non-toxic, and effective than Western medicine

[Documentation]

1. Benjing: "The Lord is improving vision, tonifying qi, removing the evil blood and injecting... to calm the heart qi."
2. Bencao Gangmu: " It enters the liver meridian of Jueyin very quickly... The liver governs wood, resuscitation is in the eyes, and the disease is caused by dark eyes blocking the nebula, and the antelope horn can calm it down, and it combines with the tendons, and the disease is caused by fright epilepsy in children and women. Human eclampsia, big philtrum, wind convulsion, and muscle spasm, multiple arthralgia pulling pain, and antelope horn can relieve it."

[Usage and Dosage]

[Modern Pharmacology]

This product contains calcium phosphate, common bletilla tuber, insoluble inorganic salts, etc. The antelope horn skin extract has an inhibitory effect on the central nervous system and analgesic effects; it can enhance the animal's tolerance to hypoxia. Decoction can resist convulsions and has antipyretic effects. Decoction or alcohol extract, a small dose can enhance the contraction of the isolated toad heart, a medium dose can cause heart block, and a large dose can cause the heart rate to slow down, the amplitude to decrease, and finally the heart to stop.