First, the effect of buffalo horn:
The taste of buffalo horn is salty and cold. Heart, liver and stomach meridians. Efficacy can clear away heat and toxic materials, cool blood and calm convulsions. Taxodium ascendens can clear heat toxin in blood and heat toxin in heart meridian.
It is often used to treat fever, high fever, delirium, macula, hematemesis and epistaxis, and convulsion and madness.
Summary of famous works:
No recording: "I have a headache due to cold and heat."
"Rihuazi Materia Medica": "Cure heat and toxic wind, strengthen heat."
"Lu Chuan Ben Cao": "Cool blood and detoxify, stop cockroaches. Treat fever coma, acne rash, hematemesis, epistaxis, blood heat and red drowning. "
Compendium of Materia Medica: "There are several kinds of cattle. This book is not about oxen and buffaloes, but about Niuer. Southerners regard buffalo as cattle, while northerners regard yellow cattle and black cattle as cattle. Different breeds of cattle have different medicines. "
Second, the compatibility and application of buffalo horn:
1. Used for fever, coma, macula, excess heat and bleeding. The efficacy of buffalo horn is similar to that of rhinoceros horn, and it is often used as a substitute for rhinoceros horn today. To treat hematemesis and epistaxis caused by blood heat, rhinoceros horn is often combined with Radix Rehmanniae, Cortex Moutan and Radix Paeoniae Rubra, namely Rhinoceros horn Dihuang decoction. Today, instead of rhinoceros horn, it was renamed Jiedu Dihuang Decoction.
Rhinoceros horn has been listed as a banned product by the state. When necessary, in addition to buffalo horn, gypsum, cortex moutan, radix Arnebiae and Rhizoma Paridis can also be used instead, that is, Li Ke's "four flavors of rhinoceros". The study of Chinese medicine is all about contingency, and only a good doctor can learn and use it flexibly.
"The Holy Records": "The horns burn ash, and the wine is served with a dagger, five times a day, to cure the stone and drench the blood."
2. Other uses of buffalo horn.
Treatment of purpura, buffalo horn powder treatment of refractory thrombocytopenic purpura has obvious effect, and it is not easy to relapse, safe and has no toxic side effects. You can refer to the usage of Jiedu Dihuang Decoction and add and subtract with the symptoms.
If chronic gastritis is accompanied by mucosal erosion, bleeding or congestion, adding buffalo horn to the syndrome differentiation prescription can stop bleeding, repair gastric mucosa and promote the recovery of gastritis.
To treat diabetic skin pruritus or intractable skin pruritus, Jiedu Dihuang Decoction is the basic prescription, which can be combined with drugs such as Bombyx Batryticatus, Tribulus Terrestris and Kochia scoparia. Adding Fructus Trichosanthis, Semen Cassiae and Fructus Aurantii Immaturus into dry stool; Radix Gentianae is added to those with excessive heat; Radix Salviae Miltiorrhizae and Caulis Trachelospermi are added for numbness of hands and feet. There are often good results for reference.
If the treatment of silver blood disease is progressing, if wind is dry and heat is toxic, adding buffalo horn to the syndrome differentiation prescription can increase the curative effect.
Treatment of blood-heat type silver blood disease, buffalo horn with Radix Rehmanniae, Cortex Moutan, Radix Paeoniae Rubra, etc. And decoct with water, which is the usage of Jiedu Dihuang Decoction. Or with Radix Rehmanniae, Herba Hedyotidis Diffusae, Rhizoma Smilacis Glabrae, Cortex Dictamni Radicis, Rhizoma Paridis, Radix Paeoniae Rubra, Cortex Moutan, Radix Sophorae Flavescentis, etc. It is also an effective prescription and worth learning. * * * plays the role of nourishing yin and activating collaterals, and clearing the heart and meridian fire.
Neijing: "All bitter sores belong to the heart." "Those who break their hearts will be transferred to concentration camps."
Three. Usage and dosage of buffalo horn:
Buffalo horn is often used as decoction or pill powder. The dosage of decoction usually ranges from a few grams to dozens of grams; Pill powder is suitable.
Although the efficacy of buffalo horn is similar to that of rhinoceros horn, it is slow, so the dosage is large. Medicine needs to be pounded, that is, buffalo horn is shredded, or fried first, or taken at the end of the file.
Four, the application of buffalo horn matters needing attention:
Buffalo horn tastes salty and cold, so it should be used with caution by people with deficiency of spleen and stomach and pregnant women. If taken in large quantities, it is easy to cause epigastric discomfort, nausea, abdominal distension, loss of appetite and other reactions.
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—— Practical Notes on Traditional Chinese Medicine 20. 10.2 noon
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