5 good remedies from goat horn
Goat horn - the medicinal name is duong giac, is the horn of male mountain goats or also known as mountain goats, after harvesting, it is soaked in clean water for a day and a night to loosen the dirt on the outside of the horn, then used a wire brush to scrub and wash clean. Dry. Use a chainsaw to cut into 5cm short pieces, split lengthwise. Incubate these horn slices with ginger solution for 24 hours to remove the odor. Then dry them, use as raw materials for the next preparation.
From the antelope, people determined that there were proteins, calcium phosphates and many other inorganic salts.
Regarding pharmacological effects, antelope horn has sedative, anticonvulsant, antipyretic, antihypertensive and bradycardia effects on experimental animals. At the same time, it increases the strength of white mice in hypoxic conditions.
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Goat horns, also known as antelope horns, according to Oriental medicine have many medicinal properties. |
According to Oriental medicine, antelope horn has a salty taste and cold properties. It is directed to the heart and liver meridians. It has the function of stopping wind, stopping convulsions, clearing the liver, brightening the eyes, clearing heart fire, calming the mind, detoxifying, and causing measles to erupt. It is used to treat internal liver wind, cramps in the whole body, gray-black tongue; headache, dizziness, red eyes; high fever, delirium, madness; allergic rash, measles that is difficult to erupt, and poisonous boils deep in the muscles. Antelope horn is used in some of the following ancient prescriptions.
Yang Jiao Chong Te
Antelope horn (goat horn) 30g, Ligusticum wallichii, Angelica dahurica, each 10g, Ligusticum wallichii (processed) 7.5g. With the function of calming the liver, relieving pain, treating migraines, vascular headaches, tension headaches, and neuralgia.
Antelope climbing ladder
4.5g antelope horn, 15g raw rehmannia root, 10g each of uncaria rhynchophylla, raw ginger, chrysanthemum, and poria, 12g fritillary bulb, 6g each of mulberry leaves and bamboo sap, and 3g licorice. With the function of cooling the liver, stopping wind, increasing fluid, and relaxing muscles. Used to treat yin deficiency, yang excess, internal liver wind, coma, restlessness, chest and rib distention, high fever, red tongue, and weak pulse.
Ox-bezoar-descending-pressure pill
10g of bezoar, 100g of antelope horn, 50g of pearl, 25g of camphor, 50g of astragalus, 50g of white peony, add honey to make pills, take 3g each time. With the function of clearing the mind, dissolving phlegm, calming, and lowering blood pressure. Use when liver fire is strong, causing headache, blurred vision, irritability, restlessness, anxiety, phlegm fire is strong, and blood pressure is high.
The Five-fold Ladder of Renunciation
Antelope horn, cinnamon each 2.5g, ginger 1.5g, bamboo shoot 30ml, saposhnikovia, aconite, gastrodia elata, sour jujube seed each 3g, and the liquid of 3g raw ginger. With the function of strengthening the body, eliminating evil, transforming phlegm and stopping wind. Treats stroke, spleen and stomach, stiff tongue, immobility, hemiplegia.
Linh Kieu Detox Pill
10g antelope horn, 200g each of honeysuckle and forsythia; 120g each of mint, platycodon, and burdock; 100g each of fermented soybean and licorice; 80g each of perilla and bamboo leaf. Add honey to make pills, take 3g each time, 2-3 times a day before meals. This medicine has the effect of relieving heat, clearing heat and detoxifying. Used to treat wind-heat colds (heatstroke, sunstroke), high fever or fever with headache, cough, dry mouth, sore throat, sore throat and pharynx.
According to Health and Life