Lurong Cornu Cervi Pantotrichum
The source is from the horn of male beast of Cervus Nippon Temminck or C. elaphus L. family Cerrridaae. The producing areas are in Northeast, Northwest, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang and mountainous areas of Southwest in China. The medicinal material is cut in summer and autumn, dried after being processed, and used in the form of slices or powder.
Medicinal Properties Sweet and salty in flavor, warm in nature, and attributive to the liver and kidney meridians.
Actions Nourish kidney-yang, promote the production of the essence and blood, strengthen tendons and bones.
Application
1. It is applied for deficiency of kidney-yang or deficiency of the essence and blood manifested as chill, cold limbs, impotence, emission, sterility due to uterine cold, frequent micturition, dizziness, tinnitus, or fatigue. It can be ground into powder and used alone, or used together with Renshen (Radix Ginseng), Shudihuang ( Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata ), etc., such as Shen Rong Guben Wan (Pill).
2. For deficiency of the liver and kidney manifested as flaccidity of extremities, or maldevelopment, delayed walking, delayed teeth eruption and delayed closure of fontanel in infants, it is often used with Shudihuang (Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata ) , Shanyao (Rhizoma Dioscoreae), and Shanzhuyu ( Fructus Corni ), etc., such as Jiawei Dihuang Wan (Pill).
3. It is applied for deficiency and coldness of thoroughfare and conception vessels in women manifested as metrorrhagia and metrostasis and leucorrhagia due to weakness of belt vessel. For the former, it is used with Ejiao (Colla Corii Asini ), Wuzeigu (Os Sepieltae seu Sepiae), etc., such as Lurong San (Powder) ; for the latter, used with Gouji (Rhizoma Cibotii), Bailian (Herba Potygalae Japonica).
Besides, it is useful for treating unhealed skin lesions.
Usage and Dosage 1 - 3 g of its powder is for drinking; or in a pill or powder.
Notes Contraindicated in the case with deficiency of yin and hyperactivity of yang, blood-heat, hyperpyrexia of the stomach, cough due to phlegm-heat, or febrile disease due to exogenous pathogenic factors. The amount used in the course should start gradually from small to large.
