What are the effects and functions of yak horn?
Yak horn, also known as maoniu, zuoniu, saniu, moniu, etc., is the horn of the yak, an animal of the genus Bos in the family Bovidae. When a yak is slaughtered, the horn is sawed off and dried in the shade or dried at low temperature. As medicine, it has the effects of clearing heat and removing toxin, cooling blood and calming wind, and has a therapeutic effect on conditions such as high fever with convulsions and bleeding due to blood heat. Let us take a look below at the effects and functions of yak horn!
The medicinal effects of yak horn
[Nature and flavor] Sour, salty in flavor, cool in nature.
[Meridians entered] Heart, liver and stomach meridians.
[Effects] Clearing heat and removing toxin, cooling blood and calming wind; mainly treats conditions such as high fever with convulsions and bleeding due to blood heat.
Medicinal discussions on yak horn
1. "Classic of Mountains and Seas": The yak belongs to the genus Bos, is black, and comes from the southwest.
2. "Compendium of Materia Medica": Sour, salty, cool, non-toxic. Treats convulsions and heat toxin, and various blood diseases.
3. "Medical Forest Compendium": The yak is sweet and warm. Its functions are roughly the same as beef.
Medicinal selected formulas for yak horn
1. To treat bleeding: Cattle and sheep horns and hoof shells, after being washed clean, are placed in a sealed container and burned to carbonization, then ground into fine powder and sifted. For internal bleeding, take 2 grams orally three times a day; for external bleeding, sprinkle on the affected area.
2. To treat throat obstruction with swelling and blockage that is near fatal: Take buffalo horn, burn it, scrape off the ash, sift finely, and take it with wine in an amount about the size of a jujube; it can also be taken mixed with water. Also, for infants who cannot drink milk smoothly and appear to have throat obstruction, apply this ash onto the nipple and let them swallow it.
3. To treat urolithiasis and break blood stasis: Burn cattle horn to ash, take one square-inch spoonful with wine, five times a day.
4. To treat blood rushing upward to the heart with restlessness and stabbing pain: Buffalo horn, burn to powder, take one square-inch spoonful with wine.
5. To treat bovine-path swelling and pain, with raised swelling, difficulty in walking, and rupture with pus and fluid discharge after a long time: Cattle horn tip (burned to ash), fossil bone, rosin, and calomel in equal parts. Grind together into powder. Mix with cattle bone marrow and apply; for the weak, take Shiquan Dabutang as a pungent supplement.
6. To treat red baldness and hair loss: Cattle horn and sheep horn (burned to ash) in equal parts.