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 Saiga tatarica
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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