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🌿 Herb

Buffalo Horn

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🌿 All Herb data fields for Buffalo Horn
🌿 Names
Pinyin Name
Shui Niu Jiao
中文名 (Chinese)
水牛角
Latin Name
Cornu Bubali; Bubali Cornu
English Name
Buffalo Horn
Alias Names
沙牛角
☯ TCM Properties
Properties (性味)
Bitter; Cold
Meridians (归经)
Heart; Liver
Part Used
Horn
Therapeutic Class (EN)
Heat-Clearing Medicinal
功效分类 (CN)
清热药
🩺 Clinical Profile
Function (功能)
To clear heat, resolve toxin, cool blood, settle fright.
Indication (主治)
Headache due to febrile disease, ardent fever with clouded spirit, macular eruption and papules, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, stasis heat yellowing, infant fright wind, swelling pain in throat, mouth and tongue sores.
🔗 External References
TCMID
7456
TCM-ID
1997
🔍 Raw view — every non-empty column on this row (28 fields)
name
Buffalo Horn
chinese name
水牛角
pinyin name
Shui Niu Jiao
latin name
Cornu Bubali; Bubali Cornu
english name
Buffalo Horn
properties english
Bitter; Cold
meridians english
Heart; Liver
use part
Horn
tcmid id
7456
herb id str
HERB005183
function text
To clear heat, resolve toxin, cool blood, settle fright.
indication
Headache due to febrile disease, ardent fever with clouded spirit, macular eruption and papules, blood ejection, spontaneous external bleeding, stasis heat yellowing, infant fright wind, swelling pain in throat, mouth and tongue sores.
therapeutic en class
Heat-Clearing Medicinal
therapeutic cn class
清热药
tcm id id
1997
alias name
沙牛角
How relationships are computed
  • Clinical Trials / Meta-Analyses / References: direct foreign-key link via subject_entity_id (Phase 2d wireup)
  • Formula ↔ Herbs: text bridge via formulas.herbs_in_pinyin matching herbs.pinyin_name
  • Herb ↔ Ingredient: empty — needs HERB_herb_ingredient import
  • Ingredient ↔ Target: empty — needs HERB_ingredient_target import
  • Target ↔ Disease: empty — needs HERB_target_disease import
  • Herb → Target → Disease (full chemical spine): awaiting Phase 2e link tables