Buffalo horn, the medicinal part is buffalo horn. This product is a slightly flat and curved cone with different lengths. The surface is brown-black or gray-black, with several transverse grooves on one side and dense transverse concave stripes on the other side. The upper part is tapered with longitudinal stripes, and the bottom is slightly triangular and hollow. Lustful and hard. The smell is slightly fishy and light.
Buffalo horn picture
Efficacy and function of buffalo horn
Clearing heat, cooling blood and detoxifying. Treat fever, headache, dizziness, macula, vomiting, convulsion, laryngitis and swelling.
1, "Bielu": "Treating headache caused by cold and heat."
2, "Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Decocting, treating heat and toxic wind, strong heat."
3, "Outline": "Treating stranguria and breaking blood."
4, "Luchuan Materia Medica": "Cool blood and detoxify, stop cockroaches. Treat fever coma, acne rash, hematemesis, epistaxis, blood heat and red drowning. "
5, "Sichuan Traditional Chinese Medicine": "Treating wind-heat headache, sore throat, vomiting blood.
Medicinal value of buffalo horn
1, treatment of bleeding: cattle, horns and hoof nails, after cleaning, put them in a closed container for burning and carbonization, grind them into fine powder and sieve them. Internal bleeding, two grams three times a day, oral; External bleeding, scattered in the affected area. (Selected data of new medical methods of Chinese herbal medicines in Inner Mongolia)
2, cure sore throat, congestion to death: sand horn, burning, scraping ash, fine screening, and wine jujube, water adjustment can also be. Also, if the child feels a sore throat when drinking milk, put this ash on the milk and swallow it. (Provisions on Collection and Inspection at Sea)
3, cure stone drenching, break blood: the horn burns ash, and the wine is taken in square inches, five times a day. ("Sheng Ji Zong Lu")
4, cure blood against the heart, stuffy thorn: buffalo horn, burning powder, wine service square inch. (The Secret Record of Mother and Child)
5. Treat cattle swelling and pain, swelling and protruding, legs are difficult to walk, and will break after a long time. Purulent water phase flow: horn (burnt ash), water keel, rosin and calomel are equally divided. * * * is the last. Knead bovine bone marrow, and take Shiquan Dabu decoction for the weak. ("Authentic Surgery" Niu Jiao Powder)
6, cure baldness: horns, horns (burning ash) and so on. Pig fat coating. (Sheng Huifang)
7, the treatment of bee stings: horn burning ash, bitter wine coating. ("Fill the back of the elbow")
Usage and dosage of buffalo horn
Oral administration: decoction, 15-30g, large dose of 60- 120g, decoction for more than 3h; Grinding, 3-9g each time; Buffalo horn concentrated powder, each time 1.5-3g. External use: appropriate amount, grinding, mixing or application.
Side effects of buffalo horn
Use with caution for pregnant women and those with stomach cold due to deficiency of middle energizer. When taken in large quantities, reactions such as epigastric discomfort, nausea, abdominal distension and loss of appetite often occur.
Edible method of buffalo horn
1, buffalo horn freckle prescription
Ingredients: buffalo horn 60g, Cimicifuga Rhizoma, Notopterygii Rhizoma, Radix Saposhnikoviae each 30g, Rhizoma Typhonii and Radix Angelicae Dahuricae each 15g, Radix Rehmanniae 30g, Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Carthami Flos, Scutellariae Radix each 15g, and Radix Glycyrrhizae 6g.
Practice: grind all the drugs into fine powder, steam them, make them into small pills, and take them with warm water every night10g.
Efficacy: expelling wind and clearing heat, cooling blood and dispersing blood, effective in treating freckles.
2, buffalo horn soup
Material: buffalo horn
Practice: buffalo horn grinding water suit. 65438+ 0.5g each time, 3 times a day.
Efficacy: Effective for children with high fever.
3, buffalo horn Uncaria cinnabar soup
Materials: 3 grams of buffalo horn, 9 grams of Uncaria rhynchophylla, 5 grams of scorpion 1.5, 3 grams of processed Arisaema, and cinnabar 1 g.
Practice: File buffalo horn into powder and add other ingredients to decoct. Every day 1 dose.
Efficacy: It has curative effect on infantile convulsion.
4. Callicarpa cornuta
Ingredients: 9 grams of buffalo horn, 30 grams of radix rehmanniae, 20 grams of cortex moutan, 0/5 grams of lotus root knot/kloc-,0/5 grams of arborvitae charcoal/kloc-,and 30 grams of Callicarpa formosana.
Practice: buffalo horn is filed into powder and fried with other ingredients. Every day 1 dose.
Efficacy: effective for vomiting blood.
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