Liu Xu looked at the group of saiga antelopes and smiled very beautifully: "Antelope horns are used to treat hyperactivity of liver yang and headaches caused by blood stasis and blockage. It is also used to treat influenza, colds and coughs, dizziness, brain swelling, and sore throat.
Nameless high fever, etc., have miraculous effects, and the most important thing is that they have no side effects. Do you think some people would not like such medicines?"
"It's nothing to ordinary people, but to some rich people, it has no side effects, but it's more attractive than anything else." Qin Mingyue said.
"Yes! So the number of this kind of antelope is getting smaller and smaller." Han Peacock said.
He has never seen a saiga antelope, but he knows about the horns of this kind of antelope. After all, Han Kongque has read many Chinese medicine books. He even handed over the catkins. However, what kind of traditional Chinese medicine is the catkin now?
Korean peacocks are not as good as catkins.
Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" records that "the antelope horn enters the Jueyin liver meridian, and the liver opens into the eyes. The onset of the disease is dark obstruction of the eyes, and the antelope horn can calm it down."
The liver governs wind; when combined into tendons, its symptoms include epilepsy in children, eclampsia in women, stroke and convulsions in adults, and acute meridians and joint pain, which can be soothed by antelope horns.
The soul is the god of the liver. When the disease occurs, people will be frightened, restless, and mad, and the antelope horns can calm them down.
Blood is stored in the liver, and when it occurs, blood stasis, colic, dysentery, sores, scrofula, and postpartum blood qi can be dispersed.
The phase fire is located in the liver and gallbladder, and when the qi is angry, the disease will be irritability, inverse qi, choking, cold and heat, and typhoid fever, and the antelope horn can reduce it.
Among the people, antelope horn is known as the "antelope fairy horn". It is expensive and hard to find. Especially for the treatment of high fever and convulsions in infants and young children, it often has immediate results. It is odorless and tasteless, easy for children to take, and has no toxic or side effects.
Time-honored traditional Chinese medicine stores often take pride in owning an antelope horn. It is so precious that people flock to it like vultures.
Even today, with the rapid development of medicine and the endless development of new Western medicines, there are still some diseases that are difficult to cure.
Antelope horn can play a miraculous role that western medicine cannot achieve. More importantly, it does not have any side effects. This is especially valuable today when the threat of drug side effects is becoming more and more serious.
With the advancement of medicine, new progress has been made in the clinical research and application of antelope horns.
In cooperation with the Department of Physiology of Moscow State University and the Department of Pharmacology of Volgograd Medical College in Russia, research has proven that saiga horns have a good effect on controlling the formation of ulcers and even show medicinal effects.
Especially the horns of saiga antelopes during mating period have the best medicinal effects.
The main components of antelope horn are keratin, calcium phosphate and insoluble inorganic salts. After acid hydrolysis, it contains isoleucine, leucine, phenylalanine, tyrosine, alanine and other amino acids.
In addition, it also contains phospholipids such as lecithin, cephalin, sphingomyelin, phosphatidylserine and phosphatidylinositol.
Modern pharmacological research shows that antelope horn has sedative, anticonvulsant, antipyretic, antihypertensive, antibacterial, antiviral and other effects.
In clinical practice, antelope horns are used to treat various high fevers, convulsions, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, and dizziness, headaches, hypertension and other diseases caused by interference of liver fire.
Clinical efficacy research in our country has also shown very good results.
Used to treat exogenous high fever. Antelope horn has been used to treat 200 cases of exogenous high fever. It was found that it has an effective rate of 91% in treating bacterial infections, especially fevers caused by viral infections. The antipyretic effect of the drug is mild and long-lasting, and it is not easy to rise repeatedly.
, no side effects.
For the treatment of epilepsy, 889 cases of epilepsy were treated with self-made Yixian Powder (composed of antelope horn powder, white flower snake, precious powder and other medicinal flavors). Among them, 516 were male and 373 were female, aged 2 to 63 years old, with a disease duration of 1 to 33 years.
As a result, 580 cases were markedly effective, 270 cases were improved, and 39 cases were ineffective. The total effective rate was as high as 95.6%.
The antihypertensive effect is also obvious. The antihypertensive oral liquid made from antelope horn compound was used to clinically treat 102 cases of hypertension, with a total effective rate of 77.45%, satisfactory efficacy and no toxic side effects.
Used to treat asthma and children with phlegm-heat cough. Lingyang Qingfei Oral Liquid was used to treat 120 cases of children with phlegm-heat cough, including 60 cases of bronchitis, 30 cases of whooping cough, and 30 cases of bronchopneumonia. The effective rate of treatment for the above three diseases reached 90%.
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For patients with severe asthma, just boil 10 to 15 pieces of antelope horn for about 10 minutes, take the juice and take it. In all cases, the symptoms were quickly relieved within 1 to 3 hours.
Other effects: In addition to the common clinical applications mentioned above, antelope horns also have other special effects.
For example, antelope horn can be used externally to treat psoriasis, bedsores, acne, skin inflammation, herpes zoster and other diseases.
Antelope horns have also been used to treat brain diseases, such as intraventricular hemorrhage, cerebral thrombosis, stroke, vascular headache, viral encephalitis, etc.
The application of various diseases of the five sense organs has also been reported, such as the treatment of acute suppurative tonsillitis, periodontitis, parotitis in children, severe iridocyclitis, refractory epistaxis, etc.
It can be said that antelope horns are widely used, which makes all antelopes face great threats. In Asia, the greatest threat is naturally the saiga antelope.
At this time, on this prairie, a group of saiga antelopes were running at high speed, reaching a speed of nearly 80 kilometers per hour. They were covered in yellow-brown fur, with high nose bridges. The leading male had a pair of about 30-meter-long hair on his head.
Centimeter long, translucent and beautiful long horns, which appear slightly reddish in the sunlight.
This pair of horns is the precious Chinese medicine "antelope horn" in the world.
Perhaps it is God's favor that gave it the most beautiful and outstanding horns among countless antelope families, giving it a noble temperament and male strength.
But what was unexpected was that these beautiful horns would become the source of cruel killings and crazy plundering in front of greedy humans.
For thousands of years, due to the miraculous effects of its horns on reducing high fever, detoxifying, calming the liver and calming wind, as well as its high price on the market, it has been on the verge of extinction due to the crazy slaughter of humans.
Although the lifespan of the saiga is only about 5 years, it reproduces very quickly. If it is hunted in an appropriate amount for medicinal purposes, there is no danger of extinction. However, due to the drive of high profits and the greed of human nature, people have gone crazy with it.
, unrestrained massacre, and the number dropped sharply.
In the past ten years, the number of saiga antelopes has dropped from millions to more than 30,000, a decline rate of more than 95%.
During the chaotic period after the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, the price once dropped to about 400 yuan per kilogram. In 1991, about 25 tons of antelope horns were imported through various domestic channels.
As far as Han Kongque knows, there are more than 40 kinds of traditional Chinese medicine in China that contain antelope horns, and about 6 tons of antelope horns are consumed every year.
But these antelope horns do not rely on imports, but come from China's original stocks.
What is traded in the market now is basically the inventory that was hoarded at that time. Compared with a country with more than one billion people, with the passage of nearly two decades, in a country with a developed traditional Chinese medicine industry, the inventory has been basically exhausted.
Therefore, the price of antelope horns has continued to skyrocket. In 2001, it was 1,500 yuan/kg, in 2002 and 2003, it was 2,500 yuan/kg; in 2006, it was 3,500 yuan/kg, and in 2007, it was 8,000 yuan/kg.
With the promulgation of the ban on the sale of antelope horns and pangolins in pharmacies on March 1, 2008, the price of first-class products reached 15,000 yuan/kg in 2008.
In May, in the pharmaceutical market, the price of first-class boneless antelope horns reached 22,000 yuan/kg, but they were all traded in small quantities, and there were no large quantities on the market.
It is easy to tell that the antelope horns currently traded on the market are in stock for more than ten years. If properly preserved, they can be stored for decades without any problems.
In some black market transactions in the pharmaceutical market, there are still powerful businessmen hoarding goods at high prices of more than 12,000 yuan/kg. It is foreseeable that the price of antelope horns will continue to skyrocket in the long term.
Because under the trade ban of international conventions, the strong protection of the host country, and the strong crackdown on smuggling by various countries, it is impossible for new antelope horns to be transported into China.
Market price is an important indicator of species rarity, endangered status, and supply and demand.
The high market price is undoubtedly a huge potential threat to wild populations.
But even in this special period, Liuxu had the foresight to raise such a group of saiga antelopes. It must be said that Liuxu's vision was still very forward-looking.
"Is this thing so expensive?" She had always known that Han Kongque was good at investment and storage, but Zhou Meiren never thought that this catkin, who was as beautiful as a fairy and could not eat the fireworks of the world, would actually make such a long-term investment.
"Can you really buy it for more than 10,000 yuan per pound?" Qin Mingyue was also surprised.
Liuxu looked at the running saigas. She didn't expect that, just as she hadn't seen them for a while, the original dozen saigas actually turned into hundreds. This reproduction was really fast, and hers
This investment seems to have already made a lot of money.
"The price will still go up." Liuxu said with a smile.
"It's already over 20,000 per kilogram and it's still going to increase?" Zhou Meiren was really surprised.
Liu Xu smiled and said: "Even if the price of useless gems is so fast, let alone the useful ones."
Han Peacock also said: "I heard that the saiga antelope has encountered a plague in recent years? Is it true? If it is true, the horns of the saiga antelope will definitely be more difficult to buy. This does not mean that their prices will skyrocket.
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Liuxu said: "If it hadn't been for the plague and the saiga antelopes died in large numbers, I wouldn't have thought of raising this kind of thing. These antelope horns are indeed a good thing, and they can treat common diseases such as colds and fevers, high blood pressure, heart disease, liver disease, etc.
, it has good continuity, and the most important thing is that it has no side effects. Such good things are rare.”
"It's so useful, no wonder it's called the fairy horn." Liu Xu said. (To be continued.)