Buffalo horn is the two horns of the buffalo, in traditional Chinese medicine use, for the Chinese medicine rhinoceros horn substitute. Buffalo horn shape curved arc, root square or slightly triangular, hollow, one side of the surface has most parallel concave lines, sharp horn end; color black and brown, hard texture, section lines fine and not obvious, fishy. Buffalo horn is attached to the bone and born, hollow with medulla, rhinoceros horn grows on the skin, is the epidermis keratinization and become. Buffalo horn has the efficacy of clearing heat, cooling blood, fixing fright, detoxification, etc. It is mainly used for treating typhoid fever warm epidemic heat into the blood, convulsions, irritability, delirium, maculopapular rash, yellowish hair, vomiting blood, epistaxis, hyperemia, carbuncle and gangrene and other diseases.
Buffalo horn which contains arginine aspartic acid , leucine, amino acid components. In the present is mainly used to clear away heat and cool the blood detoxification, but also for the treatment of headache disease or rash, such as children drinking milk is not quick to feel like a paralysis of the throat, you can also take this ash coated with milk, swallowed.
You can also cure the swelling and pain of cow's horn, the swelling is high and protruding, and it is difficult to walk on the foot, and it will be ruptured for a long time, and the pus and water will flow together, you can put the tip of the cow's horn (burnt ash) with other herbs in equal portions, and grind it into powder, and apply it on the cow's bone marrow. Buffalo horn products have certain health effects. The use of buffalo horn comb will not produce static electricity, its pharmacological properties in the massage of the human brain scalp and head nerves to promote blood circulation, invisible penetration into the human body.
1, Healing bleeding: cattle, sheep horns and hoof nails, wash, put into a closed container burning charcoal, research into fine powder sieve. Internal bleeding, three times a day, two grams each time, orally; external bleeding, sprinkled on the affected area. (Inner Mongolia's "Chinese herbal medicine new medical data compilation")
2, The treatment of paralysis, swelling and plugging of the throat want to die : sand cow horn, burn, scrape the ash, fine sieve, and wine to serve jujube Xu big, water is also available. And children drinking milk is not fast feel like paralysis of the throat, also take this ash coated milk, swallow. ("Sea set of examination prescription")
3, treatment of stone drenching, broken blood : ox horn burned ash, wine service square inch dagger, five services a day. (Sheng Ji General Records)
4, Blood up against the heart, boredom stabbing pain : buffalo horn, burned powder, wine, square inch dagger. (ZiMu Secret Record)
5, Cure cow Cheng 攓 swollen pain, swelling high protruding, support feet difficult to walk, long time will be ruptured, pus and water flow : cow horn tip (burnt ash), water keel, rosin, light powder, each equal parts. Beef bone marrow mixing application, weak people spicy service ten whole big tonic soup. ("Surgery Zongzong" cow horn scattered)
6, treating baldness hair fall : cow horn, goat horn (burnt ash) and other points. The pig fat to adjust the coating. ("Sheng Hui Fang")
7, treating bee stings : ox horn burnt ash, bitter wine and, coated. (《补缺肘后方》)