Antelope Horn
Cornu Saigae Tataricae, Saigae Tataricae Cornu
Ling Yang Jiao

About

Properties in Traditional Chinese Medicine

Salty; cold

Part(s) used

Saiga tatarica linnaeus

Potential toxicity/side effects

Functions/effects it is traditionally believed to have

Treatment of high fever with convulsion and impairment of consciousness, eclompsia, epilepsy, mamia, headache and dizziness, redness of the eye with corneal opacity, epidemic fibrile diseases with eruption, carbuncle, abscess and sores.

Conditions/symptoms it is traditionally used to treat

1. intraperitoneal injection of its alcoholic extract (0.05mg/g) exerts sedative effect in mice.2. its alcoholic extract and hydrolsate lower vaccine-induced fever in rabbits.3. analgesic, anti-convulsive and hypotensive.