What are the effects and functions of sheep horns?

Sheep horn refers to the horn of a sheep. Sheep horn is also another name for the "Cassia seed" plant. Cassia seed has pharmacological effects and can treat the liver, kidney and large intestine meridian. Cassia seed can moisten the intestines and detoxify, and can also reduce blood lipids. It has an effect on improving eyesight, and can also lower blood pressure and has a diuretic effect. In addition to these effects, sheep horn has many other effects. What are the effects and functions of sheep horn? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. Sheep horns

Yangjiao has many meanings. It refers to the horn of a sheep, and also has the double surname Yangjiao. It is also another name for the plant "Cassia seed". It has pharmacological effects and is mainly used to treat the liver, kidney, and large intestine meridians; it can moisturize the intestines and promote bowel movements, lower blood lipids and improve eyesight, and treat constipation, hyperlipidemia, and high blood pressure. It clears the liver and improves eyesight, promotes diuresis and relieves constipation, has a laxative effect, and lowers blood pressure and blood lipids.

Cassia seed tastes salty and bitter, and is cool in nature; it enters the liver, gallbladder, and kidney meridians. Dispel wind and heat, detoxify and remove dampness. It is used to treat wind-heat cold, influenza, acute conjunctivitis, damp-heat jaundice, acute and chronic nephritis, leucorrhea, scrofula, sores, carbuncles, furunculosis, and mastitis.

2. What are the effects and functions of sheep horns?

1. Improve eyesight

It is used for symptoms such as red, swollen and painful eyes, photophobia, excessive tearing, amblyopia and cataracts. Relieve red, swollen and painful eyes, photophobia and excessive tearing, which are caused by liver fire or wind-heat.

2. Prevent cataracts and amblyopia

Amblyopia and cataracts are mostly caused by liver and kidney deficiency. Cassia seed clears the liver and improves eyesight. It is often used together with liver and kidney nourishing medicines such as Tribulus terrestris, Ligustrum lucidum, Lycium barbarum, and Rehmannia glutinosa to treat amblyopia and cataracts.

3. Antiasthmatic, gallbladder-promoting, liver-protecting, blood pressure-lowering

The rhein and rhein contained in it have the effects of relieving asthma, promoting choleresis, protecting the liver, and lowering blood pressure on the human body, and have certain antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects.

4. Lowers blood pressure

In modern clinical practice, Cassia seed is used to treat hyperlipidemia. Cassia seed can be decocted in water or made into tablets for oral administration.

5. Strengthen your heart

The physaccharin glucoside, physaccharin anthrone and physaccharin methyl ether it contains have the effects of lowering serum cholesterol and strengthening the heart.

6. Lubricates the intestines and promotes bowel movements

It has a detoxifying and laxative effect.

3. The magical use of sheep horns:

1. Qi reversal and fullness. Burn and grind sheep horns, and take one spoonful with water. 2. Vomiting blood, wheezing and coughing. Use two sheep horns (burnt) and two taels of cinnamon powder, grind them into powder, take one teaspoon each time, with glutinous rice soup, three times a day.

3. When you have frequent diarrhea, use a sheep horn, fill it with white sage powder, burn it and grind it into powder. Take 2 qian each time, with water.

4. Pain caused by falls. Use sheep ash, sand and sugar water, put it on a tile and roast it, grind it into powder. Take two coins each time, and drink hot wine. At the same time, rub the painful area with hot wine.