The medicinal value of rhinoceros horn

Rhino horn, also known as black rhino horn, fragrant rhino horn, Indian rhinoceros, etc., is the horn of rhinoceroses white rhino, black rhino, Indian rhino, Javan rhino, Sumatran rhino and so on. It has the effect of clearing away heat, cooling blood and detoxification. It has therapeutic effect on febrile disease and high fever, delirium, convulsion, hematemesis and other diseases. Let's take a look at the medicinal value of rhino horn.

Medicinal value of rhinoceros horn

The taste is sour, salty and cold.

The heart and liver meridians.

[efficacy] clear heat, cool blood, detoxify, mainly treat febrile disease, high fever, delirium, convulsion, hematemesis.

Medicinal discussion of rhinoceros horn

1. Compendium of Materia Medica: rhinoceros horn, foot Yang Ming medicine. The stomach is a sea of water and valley, and diet and medicine must be accepted first, so rhinoceros horn can cure all poisons. Five internal organs are all qi in the stomach, wind evil heat poison, must first dry, so rhinoceros horn can cure the blood and fright spots syndrome.

2. "Classic of Materia Medica": rhinoceros horn, which is used to treat hematemesis, bleeding, bleeding, typhoid fever, crazy delirium, yellowing, hair spots, gangrene, dense heat, extreme black depression and other syndromes, are taken into the stomach, dispelling evil and clearing heat, cooling blood and detoxification.

3. "Benjing Fengyuan": rhinoceros horn, for the treatment of hematemesis, bleeding, large and small hematochezia, rhinoceros horn Dihuang decoction is a special medicine. If you suffer from qi deficiency for a long time, it is forbidden to dissipate blood gas with its energy consumption. Pimples with blood, heat and poison are particularly necessary. However, in the six or seven days of grouting, but also for the prohibition, with its ability to suppurate into water, and after the scab residual toxic carbuncle swollen, then do not avoid, but qi deficiency poison full of acne, must not be committed.

Attention to the use of rhinoceros horn

1, "Lei Gong gun burning theory": women have pregnancy do not take, can eliminate qi.

2. Notes on the Classic of Materia Medica: pine resin is used for it. Bad bacteria, thunder pills.

3. Compendium of Materia Medica: cohosh is used for it. Aconitum, black beak.

4. "Classic of Materia Medica": it is not suitable to use pimples with empty qi and great heat, and the syndrome of typhoid and yin is irritable and should not be misused.

Pharmacological effects of rhinoceros horn

1. Cardiotonic effect: 10% rhinoceros horn decoction has a cardiotonic effect on the in situ or isolated toad heart and isolated rabbit heart, which can strengthen the contractile force of the heart, increase the amplitude, increase the heart rate and increase the output per minute. With the increase of the dose, the isolated toad heart showed cardiotonic effect, and soon showed poisoning, and finally stopped in the systolic phase. The hot extract of rhinoceros horn can significantly strengthen the heartbeat and restore the original state of the frog heart which is weakened by pilocarpine.

2. The effect on blood vessels: 10% rhinoceros horn decoction was used to perfuse the blood vessels of toad's lower extremities, the blood flow was decreased than normal in a short time, and then gradually increased, exceeding the normal flow, suggesting that the blood vessels of lower extremities were first contracted and then dilated.

3. Effect on blood pressure: when rhinoceros horn decoction was injected intravenously in anesthetized dogs and rabbits, the blood pressure increased at first, then decreased, and then continued to rise. Its antihypertensive effect has little to do with the vagus nerve, and its blood pressure first increases and then decreases, which may be related to its vasoconstriction and then dilatation. When the blood pressure increases continuously after recovery, it may be because its excitatory effect on the heart exceeds the effect of vasodilation or the effect of vasodilation has been eliminated.

4. Antipyretic effect: rhinoceros horn has no antipyretic effect on rabbits with Escherichia coli fever, but it has been reported that intravenous injection of normal saline solution of rhinoceros horn can reduce the body temperature of febrile rabbits caused by Escherichia coli to normal. There is no antipyretic effect on rabbits with fever caused by warm heat stimulation or epinephrine.

5. Anticonvulsant effect: it has been reported that rhinoceros horn has a certain anticonvulsive effect, and its action point on the central nervous system may be mainly in the spinal cord. The experiment showed that rhinoceros horn suspension (3 g / kg body weight) had no significant effect on the effects of pentylenetetrazol and caffeine for three days, but the effect of strychnine seemed to prolong the latency of reaction and animal survival time, and the reaction rate and mortality rate of animals also decreased. At the same time, it can prolong the sleep time of animals in pentobarbital sodium group.

6. Other effects: intravenous injection of rhinoceros horn injection into healthy rabbits could make the total number of white blood cells decrease sharply for a short time and increase for a long time. It can also shorten the clotting time and increase the platelet count.

Medicinal selection of rhinoceros horn

1, for the treatment of Taiyin febrile disease, delirium speakers: rhinoceros horn tip 10 grams, Yuanshen heart 15 grams, lotus seed heart 2.5 grams, bamboo leaf curly heart 10 grams, even Qiao heart 10 grams, even heart Ophiopogon japonicus 15 grams. Pan-fried suit.

2, treat typhoid fever toxin inside Sheng, body red spot: rhinoceros horn (pound), ephedra (root node), plaster each 50 grams, Coptis chinensis (to beard) 1.5 grams, gardenia seed 75 grams. On the five flavors, rough pounding and sieving, each serving 25 grams, water one and a half, fried to one, to me, warm service.