Sexual taste and channel tropism are bitter, sour, salty and cold. Entering the heart, liver and stomach meridians.
Efficacy of clearing heat and relieving convulsion, cooling blood and detoxifying.
Clinical application: 1. Used for excess heat, excess heat, delirium, convulsion and convulsion in fever.
Rhinoceros horn is cold and can clear away heat and soothe the nerves. Often taken with Scutellariae Radix, Coptidis Rhizoma, Fructus Gardeniae, Calculus Bovis, Borneolum Syntheticum, Moschus, etc., and made into pills.
2. It can be used for symptoms such as excessive warmth, rash, hematemesis and epistaxis caused by blood heat.
Rhinoceros horn can clear blood, disperse heat and clear heat, so it has a good effect on vomiting and macula caused by heat toxin burning blood, collateral injury and forced blood rash caused by blood heat. Often used with Radix Paeoniae Rubra, Cortex Moutan and Radix Rehmanniae. High fever, syncope and macula caused by qi and blood can be used equally with gypsum and Anemarrhena asphodeloides.
Prescription rhinoceros horn powder and black rhinoceros tip (for grinding powder)
General dosage and usage: 2-5 minutes each time, grind into powder for oral administration. This product is mostly taken in the form of pill powder. The price is expensive and the materials are few, so the use must be strictly controlled.
Note: 1. Rhinoceros horn is a drug that can clear blood blindly, clear away heat and detoxify. If it is compatible with bezoar or antelope horn, it will clear the heart and calm the alarm; Cooling blood with fresh rehmannia root, red peony root and peony bark to stop bleeding, and cooling blood with Folium Isatidis, Radix Scrophulariae and Rhizoma Cimicifugae to remove spots; Use forsythia, bamboo leaves, etc. , will clear the heart and detoxify; Gypsum, Anemarrhena rhizome, Scrophularia root, etc. It will cool and heat the serum.
2. Rhinoceros horn and fresh rehmannia can clear away heat and cool blood. Fresh rehmannia is good at nourishing yin and promoting fluid production, while rhinoceros horn tends to detoxify and soothe the nerves. Rhinoceros horn is mainly used to clear blood and divide heat, which is different from gypsum. But rhinoceros horn, like plaster, is very effective in treating qi and blood burns.
3. After reading the predecessors' prescriptions, I found that rhinoceros horns were widely used in the prescriptions, indicating that there were many rhinoceros at that time. Now rhinoceros has become a rare animal in the world, and the supply of rhinoceros horn is getting less and less. Therefore, in order to protect the health of the broad masses of working people, we should look at this problem from a developmental perspective, that is, we must actively look for alternative drugs.
4. At present, buffalo horn is used as a substitute for rhinoceros horn in clinic. According to Bielu, buffalo horn can cure headache caused by cold and heat, and Daming Herbal Medicine says, "Decocting juice can cure heat, toxic wind and excess heat". According to the above, the effect of buffalo horn is similar to that of rhinoceros horn. Journal of traditional chinese medicine quoted the investigation report of Tianjin Drug Administration as saying that a citizen in Tianjin had treated children with fever with buffalo horn for more than ten years, and the effect was good, so it was suggested to try it out clinically.
5. Generally, the dosage of buffalo horn is from San Qian to five cents, and one or two to two ounces can be used for large dosage, and it can be decocted. If you grind it and swallow it, it costs 50 cents to 1 yuan each time.
Examples of prescriptions are "Qianjinfang" of Rhinoceros Horn Dihuang Decoction: Rhinoceros Horn, Radix Rehmanniae, Cortex Moutan and Radix Paeoniae. Treat typhoid and fever, heat injury and blood loss.
"Zhang Yitong" of Rhinoceros horn and Daqing decoction: Rhinoceros horn, Daqing, Scrophularia, Cimicifuga rhizome, Coptidis Rhizoma, Scutellariae Radix, Cortex Phellodendri, Gardenia Fructus, and raw grass. Treating spots is full of fire, but madness is hard to penetrate.