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Ling Yang Jiao - Saiga tatarica
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 Pin Yin
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Ling Yang Jiao
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Cornu Saigae Tataricae
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| Introduction |
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Cornu Saigae Tataricae is the horn of Saiga tatarica Linnaeus (Fam. Bovidae). The drug is sawed off from the animal, dried in the sun.
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| Western medical |
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ling yang jiao is indicated in the treatment of whooping cough and sporadic cephalitis, etc..
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| Eastern medical |
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- Pattern: Subdues the Liver, extinguishes Wind, clears the Liver, brightens the Eyes, clears Heat and removes Toxin.
- Properties: Salty, cold.
- Channels entered: Liver and Heart.
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| Chemical constituents |
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ling yang jiao contains keratin, calcium phosphate and indiscerptible inorganic salts.
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| Pharmacological actions |
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| Effects on the nervous center |
Extratum of ling yang jiao could lower the oriented locomotor reaction and had inhibitory effect on central nervous system. It could significantly lower the sensitivity to strychnine and electric shock without the result of muscle relaxation. |
| Antifebrile effect |
Decoction of ling yang jiao could selectively lower the morbid excitability of heat center. |
| Others |
Extract of ling yang jiao scarfskin could increase the anoxia tolerance and analgesic effect. Its water decoction had excitatory effect on isolated small intestines of rabbits and guinea pigs as well as isolated uterus of rats.
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| Clinical Studies |
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| Whooping cough |
Powder of ling yang jiao 1.2g; Dai Ge San 15g; chao huang qin, sang bai pi, zheng bai bu, zhi su zi, tian zhu huang, 10g each; bei mu 5g; sheng gan cao 6g. Modify the formula according to accompanied symptoms, one dose daily. The formula was used to treat 35 cases of whooping cough and all were cured with an average course of 7 days. |
| Sporadic cephalitis |
ling yang jiao, sheng di, zhu li, bai jiang can, 10g each; gou teng (decocted later), zhi mu, 20g each; zhi zi, huang lian, dan pi, chi shao, huang qin, 15g each; shi jue ming, jin yin huang, lian qiao, zhu ru, 30g each; shi gao, 40g; shui niu jiao 100g. 3 doses daily, water decoction. 2 pills of An Gong Niu Huang Wan, 2 bottles of San She Chen Pi Mo, western medicine was accompanied. 12 cases of sporadic cephalitis were treated, 9 were saved and 3 dead. |
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| References |
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Except those noted, all references come from Weng Weiliang, et al., Clinical Chinese materia medica, Henan Science & Technology Press, 1998 |
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