After loading in Africa, the cargo ship crossed the Straits of Malacca and waited for an opportunity to sneak into China. With the support of the marine police department, the anti-smuggling personnel successfully found 14 black nylon luggage bags containing rhinoceros horns of different lengths in the auxiliary oil tank (dry and oil-free) of the ship's engine room, and counted them as 145 pieces with a total weight of 250 kg.
What are the uses of rhinoceros horn? The most remarkable effect of rhinoceros horn is to clear away heat and reduce fire, but it can be used for any headache, cold and heat, carbuncle on the back and boredom caused by heat. But now the global rhinoceros is decreasing day by day, and poachers are becoming more and more rampant. In the final analysis, it is driven by high interests. As a responsible big country, China should consciously resist rhinoceros horn and protect rhinoceros.
"Although my body doesn't have bright phoenix wings, I can feel the harmonious heartbeat of the sacred unicorn." Li Shangyin is a famous master of love poems. The "Linxi" mentioned here actually refers to the rhinoceros horn. Especially the rhinoceros's long horns.
Not only literary works like to use rhinoceros horn, but also Chinese medicine uses it to treat children's fever. Why on earth? To put it bluntly, the ancient rhinoceros horn is not a particularly precious medicinal material. In the southwest province of China, rhinoceros resources are abundant. At that time, it was not the fantasy of a science fiction writer that elephants and rhinos were running around in southern provinces. Chang 'an City in Tang Dynasty had few frozen periods. The climate in the north is generally humid, not as dry and cold as winter in Xi.
Rhinoceros horn is a valuable medicinal material, which can clear away heat and cool blood, detoxify and arrest convulsion, and treat hematemesis and nosebleeds caused by blood heat. It is effective for delirium and convulsion caused by high fever. However, some people say that the main component of rhinoceros horn is keratin, which, like human nails, has no medicinal value.
Does rhinoceros horn have medicinal value? There is no need to argue now, because in order to protect rare animals, our country has banned rhinoceros horn from being used as medicine since 1993. So the word "rhino horn" can't be found in the ancient Chinese medicine books for cooking now.
Rhinoceros horn is an endangered wild animal under international protection, and all trade activities are prohibited. 1On May 29th, 993, the State Council issued the Notice on Prohibiting the Trading of Rhinoceros Horn and Tiger Bone. So now the commonly used substitute-buffalo horn. Rhinoceros horn is the horn of vertebrate rhinoceros, which is mainly produced in Southeast Asian countries and parts of India, Indonesia and other countries.
Bitter, salty and cold in nature. Heart, liver and stomach meridians. Functions: cooling blood, stopping bleeding, clearing heart, calming nerves, detoxifying and removing spots. It is mainly used for treating hematemesis, epistaxis, fever, macula, rash, convulsion, acne rash, erysipelas, sore throat and other diseases. Because rhinoceros horn is forbidden, it is replaced by water horn, but the dosage is large, which is 8- 10 times larger than rhinoceros horn, so it should be fried first and then taken orally. Rhinoceros horn is generally ground into juice, filed, washed or used as medicine, and the usual dosage is 0.5-1g. ? Note: pregnant women should not use it. Unless it is hot, people who enter the blood should not use it lightly, while qi deficiency and heat, typhoid fever and yin syndrome should not be misused. Rhinoceros horn is afraid of Radix Aconiti and Radix Aconiti Kusnezoffii, so it is not suitable for compatibility.
Rhinoceros horn has been banned in China. Buffalo horn can be used as a substitute for rhinoceros horn, and its medicinal components are very similar to rhinoceros horn. They all contain cholesterol, alanine, arginine, aspartic acid, cystine, leucine, proline, tyrosine, histidine, lysine and basic peptide. Its pharmacological effects all have cardiovascular excitement. It also has the functions of calming and regulating body temperature. Cold in nature and bitter and salty in taste. Non-toxic, can clear away heat, cool blood, detoxify, and treat fever, headache, coma, macula, vomiting, convulsion, laryngitis and swelling. When processing, the buffalo horn needs to be split, soaked in hot water 1 hour, taken out, sliced and dried. When using buffalo horn, it should be taken orally and decocted.
Rhinoceros horn, as a Chinese herbal medicine banned by the state, is a substitute for buffalo horn, which is rich in medicine resources, low in price and similar in efficacy to rhinoceros horn. Rural areas can use local materials! So if you have this good thing at home, or keep it for yourself, or send it to the drug purchasing department and drugstore, don't waste it.