Niu Huang
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Other Names : Calculus Bovis, 牛黃, Cattle Gallstone, Ox Gallstone, Bezoar, Bos
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Special Precautions of Niu Huang
- Contraindicated during pregnancy.
- Contraindicated for those with no Heat Excess.
- Contraindicated for those with Spleen and Stomach Deficiencies.
- Contraindicated for infants with diarrhea due to poor digestion of milk.
- Contraindicated for those with Wind-Stroke in the channels with facial paralysis, numbness of the skin or partial paralysis of the limbs.
- Antagonizes Fossila Ossis Mastoidi Long Gu.
- Antagonizes Rx. Rehmanniae Sheng Di Huang.
- Antagonizes Rx. Gentianae Long Dan Cao.
- Antagonizes Rx. Dichroa Chang Shan.
- Counteracts Rx. Achyranthis Bidentate Niu Xi.
- Niu Huang has a mild sedative effect. It reduces the stimulation induced by caffeine and enhances the sedation induced by morphine and barbiturates and other sedatives.
Benefits and uses of Niu Huang are
- Clears the Heart, opens the Orifices aromatically, awakens the Spirit and vaporizes Phlegm
- Delirium or coma due to Hot Phlegm Obstructing the Pericardium or Warm-Heat pathogen
- Wind-Stroke, convulsions or seizures
- Clears the Liver, relieves Fire toxicity, extinguishes Wind and stops tremors
- Extreme Heat Generates Liver Wind with high fever, spasms, tremors or convulsions
- Drains Heat and resolves Fire toxicity
- Carbuncles, boils and a wide variety of Hot swellings (Chuang Yung) (can be used as a stand-alone herb)
