Rhinoceros horn is a famous cold medicine, has the effect of clearing the heart and tranquilizing the mind, cooling the blood and stopping bleeding, diarrhea and detoxification, used for typhoid fever, convulsions, irritability, delirium, maculopapular rashes, yellowing, vomiting of blood, nosebleed, carbuncle and swelling poison. In modern times, it is used in acute febrile infectious diseases such as cerebral hemorrhagic disease and meningitis, and it has certain effect on high fever and convulsion, dizziness and delirium. Current society about rhino horn has aphrodisiac claims have no basis.

In the entire Middle East and the Far East, rhino horn has been used for a long time, it is known as the "panacea".