Antelope horn’s health benefits
Modern research confirms that this Chinese herb is sedative, analgesic, anticonvulsant, and antipyretic. Besides of that, it also has inhibitory effect on central nervous system.
Modern pharmacological actions of antelope horn
- Its sheath leach liquor can inhibit the central nervous system, ease pain, and enhance animal’s hypoxia tolerance;
- Its decoction has anticonvulsant and antipyretic effects;
3. Its decoction or alcohol extract has antihypertensive effect. And in small dose it enhances cardiac contractility in isolated toad heart but in medium or high dose it inhibits the heart.
4. Its decoction has antipyretic effect on rabbit fever induced by typhoid or paratyphoid A and B triple vaccine;
5. Its enzyme and acid hydrolysate have different degrees of inhibition on Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, bacillus influenzae, Group B Streptococcus, and influenza viruses.