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  <source>Bencao Index</source>
  <source-url>https://bencaoindex.com/</source-url>
  <canonical>https://bencaoindex.com/herbs/ling-yang-jiao/</canonical>
  <licence>Free to use and republish with visible attribution and a link back to the source page. The catalogue is a reference work and is knowingly incomplete; nothing in it is medical advice.</licence>
  <attribution-html>&lt;a href=&quot;https://bencaoindex.com/herbs/ling-yang-jiao/&quot;&gt;Bencao Index&lt;/a&gt;</attribution-html>
  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">ling yang jiao</name>
    <name type="chinese">羚羊角</name>
    <name type="latin">Cornu Saigae Tataricae</name>
    <name type="english">Antelope Horn</name>
    <name type="japanese">reiyokaku</name>
    <name type="korean">yeongyanggak</name>
  </names>
  <category>Extinguish Wind, Stop Tremors</category>
  <channels>
    <channel>Heart</channel>
    <channel>Liver</channel>
  </channels>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Drains Liver Heat, extinguishes Wind and stops spasms and convulsions</summary>
      <indication>Seizures and convulsions in children, especially with high fever</indication>
      <indication>High fever turning into limb spasm, a stiff neck, opisthotonos and loss of consciousness</indication>
      <indication>Stubborn high fever from Heat at the Ying and Blood (Xue) levels</indication>
      <indication>Extreme Heat stirring up Wind</indication>
      <indication>Liver Wind</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Calms the Liver and anchors Yang</summary>
      <indication>Rising Liver Yang with dizziness, vertigo, tinnitus, irritability, restlessness and a splitting headache; a key substance for this</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears the Liver and brightens the eyes</summary>
      <indication>Liver Fire blazing upward with headache, and red, swollen, painful eyes or sensitivity to light</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Drains Heat, cools the Blood and resolves Fire toxicity</summary>
      <indication>Heat invading the Pericardium: high fever, delirium, manic behaviour and, at worst, loss of consciousness</indication>
      <indication>Warm disease reaching the Blood level, with high fever, clouded consciousness and dark red rashes</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Damp-Heat</summary>
      <indication>Wind-Damp-Heat Bi</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
</record>
