Valuable Medicine Antelope Horn And Identification Of Alternatives

Antelope Horn is Saiga tatarica's Horn of Bovidae animal, it is one of rare Chinese traditional Medicine, and it has very long history in medicine application of motherland. It has the effects of calming the liver to stop the wind, removing intensive heat from the liver and improving acuity of sight and expelling blood and detoxicating. In clinic it mainly applies to syndromes of hyperpyretic convulsion, unconscious convulsion, eclampsia gravidarum tic, epileptic seizure, headache dizziness, maculae caused by violent heat-pathogen, carbuncle pyogenic infections and so on. It is scarce in our country and the adulterations have many kinds in market. Now Antelope Horn is one animal of ferine important protection, so searching the substitute of Antelope Horn is urgent.The research based on the macroscopic, microscopic, TLC, UR, IR, electrophoresis, chemistry assaying and horns' pharmacological studies among Saiga tatarica, Procapra gutturosa, Pantholops hodgsoni, Ovis ammon and Capra hirous. These researches are the substituting base.