Introduction to Ling Yang Jiao
Ling Yang Jiao comes from male goats or male sheep of the bovine family. The animal morphology is detailed in the "Sheep Meat" section.
Pharmacological effects include anti-tumor properties. After 9 days of implanting ascitic carcinoma in mice, 100% decoction of sheep horn was administered orally at a dose of 0.1 ml/10 g/day or mixed at a concentration of 5% in feed. After four weeks of treatment, the former had an inhibition rate of 79.69% based on tumor volume and 75.43% based on tumor weight. The inhibition rate for sheep horn mixed in feed was 46.24% based on tumor volume and 31.65% based on tumor weight. Oral administration was more effective in inhibiting tumor growth compared to mixing it in feed.
Benefits and Effects of Ling Yang Jiao
Benefits of Ling Yang Jiao:
Salty and cooling in nature.
① "Classic of Herbal Medicine": "Salty and warm."
② "Additional Records": "Bitter, slightly cold, non-toxic."
③ "Pharmacology Theory": "Very cold."
Enters the liver and heart meridians.
① "Commentary on the Classic of Herbal Medicine": "Lung, heart, and liver meridians."
② "Essential Herbal Formulas": "Spleen and lung meridians."
Effects of Ling Yang Jiao:
Clears heat, calms convulsions, improves vision, and detoxifies. Used to treat infantile convulsions, headache due to wind-heat, restlessness, vomiting blood, green blindness, and swelling toxins.
① "Classic of Herbal Medicine": "Treats green blindness, improves vision, kills scabies mites, stops cold diarrhea, and calms convulsions."
② "Additional Records": "Treats qi stagnation in the hundred joints, headache due to wind, and postpartum pain in women."
③ "Pharmacology Theory": "Treats postpartum residual blood, restlessness, burns, and is taken with alcohol. Also treats infantile convulsions."
④ "Dietary Herbal Medicine": "Burns the horn to make ash, treats excessive menstrual bleeding."
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Prescriptions using Ling Yang Jiao
① Treatment of infantile epilepsy: Ling Yang Jiao, burned and stored, taken with a small amount of alcohol. ("Pu Ji Fang")
② Treatment of wind, restlessness, abdominal pain, or occasional fainting: Ling Yang Jiao, slightly stir-fried, finely ground and sieved to form a powder. Regardless of time, mix with warm wine and take one qian. ("Sheng Hui Fang")
③ Treatment of continuous vomiting and bleeding: One liang of cinnamon bark, two pieces of sheep horn (roasted until dark yellow). Grind the ingredients into a powder. Regardless of time, mix with glutinous rice porridge and take two qian. ("Sheng Hui Fang")
④ Treatment of pain from contusions and sprains: Finely ground sheep horn, mix with sugar water, roast until burnt, and grind into a powder. Take two qian with hot wine and massage the painful area. ("Simple Single Formulas")
Opinions from Renowned Experts on Ling Yang Jiao
"Yang Jiao enters the lung, liver, and heart meridians, with the liver as the main channel. The "Classic of Herbal Medicine" states that it is salty and warm, while the "Additional Records" describe it as bitter, slightly cold, and the "Pharmacology Theory" classifies it as very cold. Judging from its functions, it is mostly bitter and cold, as it cannot treat conditions such as green blindness, palpitations, scabies mites, headache due to wind, and vomiting blood. It is capable of treating these conditions because green blindness is caused by liver heat, palpitations by heart heat, scabies mites by damp heat, headache due to wind by upward rising of fire heat, and vomiting blood by heat toxins damaging the blood. The bitter and cold nature of Ling Yang Jiao can effectively clear away various types of heat and treat the above-mentioned conditions. Its main function is to treat qi stagnation in the hundred joints and postpartum pain in women, which also indicates blood heat and qi blockage."
