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Cornu Cervi Pantotrichum
Sources: The drug is the unossified yound pilose antler of made cervus
nippon Temminck or C.elaphus Linnaeus family Cervidae.
Characteristics Horn or C. Nippon: Cylindrical, branching, one
branch bifurcated of two branches trifurcated. The top of the
branches enlarged and obtuse, 20-30 cm high, 4-5 cm in
diameter.Surface yellow-brown, densely covered with fine hairs.
Section of the base yellow-white, with small pores. Prepared as
round thin pieces, whitish even and soft. Unplesant in odour.
Horn of C. elaphus: Thicker than the former, surface
grey-brown. Section deeper in colour, with larger pores.
Prepared pieces dark yellow and harder, some even osseous,
Sweet and salty in taste, warm in nature, and attributive
kidney and liver channels.
Pharmacological Actions
1. It is a tonic, promoting gastrointestinal
peristalsis, accelerating the healing of ulcer or wound ,and
increasing the level of red blood cell, hemoglobin and
reticulocyte.
2. Increasing myocardial contractility, heart rate and cardic
output.
3. Its tincture exerts a gonadotropic effect.
Indications
Invigorate kidney-yang, supplement essence and blood
and strengthen the tendons and bones: For deficiency of
kidney-yang manifested as cold limbs, fatigue, backache,
impotence, emission and frequent micturition, enuresis,
sterility, metrorrhagia or leucorrhagia; for hypofunction of
kidney with shortness of breath and dyspnea; for yang-
deficiency and insufficiency of essence and blood manifested as
flaccidity of extremities, or maldevelopment, delayed walking,
delayed teeth eruption and delayed closure of fontanel in
infants, or unhealed skin lesions.
Administrations Pill or powder: 0.25-0.5g bid or tid.

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