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ANTELOPE
Powder or pills of antelope horn are given in Chinese medicine for fevers, dizziness, blurred vision, headaches, and convulsions. Velvet from deer horn is used as a tonic in Soviet medicine.
Many folk traditions have stories of deer and antelopes with miraculous healing powers; these may be connected to millennia of medicinal uses throughout the world. Various species of the two families, Bovidae (antelope) and Cervidae (deer), are used for a range of ailments, sometimes quite different. For example, in Chinese medicine antelope horn is used for "hot" conditions and deer horn for "cold" conditions.
PARTS USED Horn, velvet (which grows on horns in spring).
ACTIVE INGREDIENTS Pantocrin, a hormone in velvet.
ACTIONS Reduces muscle tension and spasm; helps reduce fever; sedative.
MEDICINAL USE Chinese physicians prescribe antelope horn for fevers, dizziness, blurred vision, headaches, and convulsions. Soviet medicine gives deer velvet as a tonic and to accelerate the healing of wounds and ulcers.
PREPARATIONS Powder, pills. |
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