What are the effects of sheep horn bracelets?

Goat horn bracelets have many benefits for the human body. Antelope horn can improve cold constitution and are also good for the liver, heart and lung meridians. It can also relieve liver fire and is good for clearing the heart and lungs. Sheep horns can also relieve dizziness, epilepsy, convulsions and other illnesses.

Sheep horn bracelets are relatively common bracelets used for health care. What are the effects of sheep horn bracelets? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. Efficacy and function of sheep horns

1. Calming the liver and extinguishing wind:

Antelope horn reduces cold and enters the liver, heart, and lung meridians. It is mainly used to relieve liver fire and clear the heart and lungs. The liver governs wind, opens up the eyes and stores blood, so it is an important medicine for calming the liver and extinguishing wind. It can be used to treat hyperactivity of liver yang, dizziness, internal liver wind, epilepsy and convulsions.

2. Clearing away heat and calming the nerves :

This syndrome is often seen after a febrile disease, when the pathogenic heat is intense. This product can be used as a first choice for high fever, irritability, coma, delirium, convulsions, thirst and dry lips, as well as convulsions caused by excessive heat in children, as it can clear away heat, detoxify, calm spasms and soothe the mind.

3. Cooling blood and detoxifying:

This syndrome is often seen in febrile diseases, where heat enters the blood and causes excessive heat and blood movement. Symptoms include: high fever, restlessness, or even coma and delirium, purple-black macules or vomiting, nosebleeds, bloody stools, and a deep crimson tongue. This product can be used first for clearing away heat, cooling blood, detoxifying and removing spots. "New Materia Medica": "It removes blood stasis from sores, generates new blood, reduces internal heat and qi, quenches thirst and relieves restlessness."

4. Disperse blood and detoxify:

It is mostly used for carbuncles, ulcers, sores, and those with excessive heat and toxicity in the blood. It may be caused by the six external evils, or excessive consumption of rich and greasy food, which causes internal accumulation of dampness, heat, and fire toxins, leading to the accumulation of toxic evils, resulting in disharmony between the Ying and Wei systems, and stagnation of Qi and blood in the meridians. Symptoms include: chills and fever, local redness, swelling and pain at the carbuncle site, thirst for cold drinks, yellow and red urine, constipation, thick yellow pus and blood after ulceration, red tongue with yellow coating, and rapid pulse. This product can be used to clear away heat, cool blood and detoxify.

5. Identification application:

Antelope horn and Semen Cassiae are both herbaceous herbs, both of which can calm the liver and suppress yang, calm the nerves and extinguish wind, and improve eyesight. Semen Cassiae is not as good as antelope horn in purging liver fire, but it can replenish liver yin, clear lung heat, and treat bone steaming and fatigue fever. Antelope horn is mainly used to relieve liver fire, clear the heart and lungs, disperse blood and detoxify. It can treat heat toxins, blood stasis, rashes, carbuncles and sores.

6. Effect on the central nervous system:

Intraperitoneal injection of antelope horn alcohol extract and injection can reduce the spontaneous activity of mice. The extract from its outer skin can reduce the directional movement response of mice and shorten the induction period of barbiturate and ether anesthesia. It significantly reduces the sensitivity to pentamethyltetrazolium, strychnine, and electric shock without causing muscle relaxation. The decoction can reduce the rate of caffeine-induced convulsions in toads and mice and increase the recovery rate, but it is ineffective for convulsions caused by strychnine.

7. Antipyretic effect:

When 48 ml/kg of antelope horn decoction was administered orally to artificially feverish rabbits, the body temperature dropped 2 hours after administration and gradually returned to normal after 6 hours.

8. Effects on the circulatory system:

The decoction of this product, 2 ml/kg, was injected intravenously to lower the blood pressure of anesthetized cats. Decoction or alcohol extract, small doses can enhance the contraction of isolated toad hearts, medium doses can cause heart block, and large doses can cause a slowing of the heart rate, a reduction in amplitude, and finally cardiac arrest.

9. Others:

The extract from antelope horn skin can increase mice's tolerance to hypoxia and has an analgesic effect.

10. Toxicity:

Mice were orally administered 10% antelope horn decoction at 2 g/kg for 7 consecutive days, and there was no significant difference except for slow weight gain. There were no obvious changes in diet, bowel movements, and free activities.