Cornu Cervi Pantotrichum
Characteristics Horn or C. Nippon: Cylindrical, branching, one department bifurcated of two branches trifurcated. The top of the branches enlarged and obtuse, 20-30 cm high, 4-5 cm in diameter.Surface yellow-brown, densely covered with useful hairs. Cut of the replica yellow-white, with slender pores. Prepared as round thin pieces, whitish yet and soft. Unplesant in odour.
Horn of C. Thicker than the former, surface grey-brown. Reduce deeper in colour, with larger pores. Prepared pieces dun unprincipled and harder, some all the more osseous, Sugar-coated and biting in taste, sizzling in nature, and attributive kidney and liver channels. Pharmacological Actions 1.
It is a tonic, promoting gastrointestinal peristalsis, accelerating the curative of ulcer or wound, and increasing the aligned of claret blood cell, haemoglobin and reticulocyte. 2. Increasing myocardial contractility, passion proportion and cardic output. 3. Its tincture exerts a gonadotropic effect.
Indications Invigorate kidney-yang, supplement essence and blood and strengthen the tendons and bones: For deficiency of kidney-yang manifested as blasting limbs, fatigue, backache, impotence, emission and frequent micturition, enuresis, sterility, metrorrhagia or leucorrhagia; for hypofunction of kidney with shortness of breath and dyspnea; for yang- deficiency and insufficiency of essence and blood manifested as flaccidity of extremities, or maldevelopment, delayed walking, delayed teeth eruption and delayed closure of fontanel in infants, or unhealed skin lesions.
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