job operation
1, antelope horn mashed tablets: take antelope horn, soak it in warm water, take it out, mash it and dry it.
2. antelope horn powder: Take antelope horn and mash it into fine powder.
physiological property
Terrestrial mammal, similar in size to antelope, with a body length of 1- 1.4m, with a male weight of 37-60kg and a female weight of 29-37kg. Special head shape, short auricle and prominent orbit. The nose is large, with a groove in the middle, the nostrils are obviously tubular, and the whole nose is swollen and protruding, so it is called the high-nosed antelope.
The ram has 1 diagonal and no bifurcation. After the horn grows from the base, it is almost vertical. When they grow to the height of 1/3 of the whole angle, the angle slightly inclines outward, then approaches upward, inward and then slightly outward, and finally the angle slightly bends inward. The tip of the corner is smooth, while the lower half has a circular edge. The horn is translucent yellow wax. The whole body color is grayish yellow, but the side is grayish white. The coat color is lighter in winter.
growing environment
Mainly inhabit desert and semi-desert open areas, like drought. Feeding on various plants, such as Haloxylon ammodendron, Artemisia, and feather grass. You usually eat while walking. Distributed in the border areas of northwest Xinjiang.
Medicinal material characters
This product is long and conical, slightly arched, with a length of15 ~ 33 cm; White or yellow-white, slightly blue-gray at the base. Young branches have "bloodshot" or purple-black markings in light perspective, smooth as jade, without cracks, and old branches have fine longitudinal cracks. In addition to the tip part, there are 10 ~ 16 raised ring ridges with an interval of about 2cm, which are held by hand, and the four fingers are just embedded in the depression.
The cross section of the corner base is round, with a diameter of 3 ~ 4 cm, and there are hard and heavy corner columns inside, commonly known as "bone plugs". The length of the bone plug accounts for about 1/2 or 1/3 of the total angle, and the longitudinal edges with protrusions on the surface are closely embedded with the grooves in the outer corner sheath. Seen from the cross section, the joint is serrated. After removing the "bone plug", the lower part of the corner becomes hollow, and the whole corner is translucent and transparent to light. There is a faintly discernible fine hole in the center of the upper part, which goes straight to the tip of the corner and is known as the "Eye of the Sky". It's hard. A slight breath, a faint taste.