What are the effects of antelope horn bracelets

Antelope horn bracelets are actually a kind of decoration, but in fact antelope horn also has good medicinal value. For example, if it is ground into powder, it can have good medicinal value. It can act on the central nervous system, relieve fever, and have a certain analgesic effect. However, antelope horn is afraid of dryness and is prone to cracking when dry, so you must pay attention to maintaining a certain humidity and cannot wash it with water.

1. Pharmacological Action

① Effect on the central nervous system

The extract of antelope horn skin (100% fluid extract made with 50% alcohol, and the ethanol was evaporated before the experiment) can reduce the directional movement response of mice, has an inhibitory effect on the central nervous system, can accelerate the onset of barbiturate and ether anesthesia, and significantly reduce the sensitivity to pentamethyltetrazolium, strychnine, and electric shock, but does not cause muscle relaxation; the decoction can reduce the rate of convulsions caused by caffeine in toads and mice and increase the recovery rate, but it is ineffective for convulsions caused by strychnine, and cannot enhance the toxicity of phenobarbital sodium to toads and mice.

② Antipyretic effect

Antelope horn decoction has an antipyretic effect on rabbits with fever caused by typhoid and paratyphoid A and B triple vaccine. The body temperature begins to drop 2 hours after gavage and gradually recovers after 6 hours.

③Other functions

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

2. Maintenance methods

1. It is difficult to find pure antelope horn handmade products on the market. Due to the characteristics of the material, antelope horn products should not be dropped, pulled, or used with force. In addition, they should be avoided from contact with heat sources, chemicals, etc., so as not to cause irreparable damage to the objects. The picture below shows the master of Lin Yi Pavilion hand-making antelope horn jewelry, which is enough to show its fineness.

2. Antelope horns are afraid of drying out, as drying out will cause them to crack. However, they cannot be soaked in water, especially hot water, as this will cause the medicinal components of the antelope horns to be released. Pay attention to maintaining humidity, play with them with your hands normally, or wipe them with olive oil in winter to prevent them from drying out.

Another point is that keratin jewelry should be avoided by acids and alkalis, and is easily corroded by acids and alkalis. Therefore, when wearing and playing with it in the summer, it is best to wipe it clean with velvety cotton cloth or wear it less in the summer to avoid being corroded by the alkaline in sweat. It must not be washed with water.