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Latin pharmacognostic name: Cervi Cornu Degelatinatum

Alternate English names: degelatinated deer horn

Kingdom: Animal

Origin in PRC Pharmacopoeia: Cervus nippon Temminck; Cervus elaphus L. (PRC Pharmacopoeia)

Origin (other sources): Cervus nippon Temminck*; Cervus elaphus L.*

Use: Medicinal

Category: Supplementing agents / Yáng-supplementing agents

Properties: Salty; warm; nontoxic*.

Channel entry: Liver and kidney channels.

Indications:

Supplements vacuity and reinforces yáng.

insufficiency of kidney yáng; pain in the lumbar spine; spleen-stomach vacuity cold; vomiting and retching; reduced food intake and sloppy stool.

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