Greenlife chinese herb database

Greenlife Chinese herb database - Antelope Horn

Latin Name

Cornu Saigae Tataricae

Chinese Name

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Origin

Horm

Distribution

Northwestern China

Nature and Affinity

This drug is salty in taste and cold in nature, and is distributed to the Liver, and Heart Channels.

Caution

	ACTIONS AND INDICATIONS
	1.Cooling the liver and calming the wind In treating up-stirring of the liver wind due to hyperactivity of heat in febrile diseases and manifested by contracture of the limbs or even opisthotonus, the drug can be used in combination with Ramulis Uncariae cum Uncis, Flos Chrysanthemi, Bulbus Fritillariae Thunbergii, Scorpio, Scolopendra, etc. 2.clearing away heat in the liver and improving vision In treating headache and conjunctival congestion due to hyperactivity of the Gentianae, Fructus Gardeniae, Radix Scutellariae, etc. Besides, the drug also has the effect of removing blood stasis and toxin, and can be used to treat skin eruption with retarded appearance of eruption due to invasion of toxic heat into the interior. The drug is ground with water to take the liquid for oral administration.
	ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE
	The dosage is 1-3g. When used in decoction, the drug should be decocted separately from other drugs. The drug can also be ground with water to take the liquid or filed into powder, and 0.6-1.5g of the drug is to be used at a time.
	REMARKS
	The drug is very expensive today, so is generally prescribed as part of pill prescriptions, not brews; lowers blood pressure; effetive preventive in strokes.