Niu Huang
| Niu Huang in TCM:Explore the properties of Niu Huang according to Chinese
Nutrition and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM):
Factoids:
English Name: cattle gallstone, beozar
Pharmacuetical Name: Calculis Bovis
Properties: bitter, cool
Temperature: cool
Channels: HT, LV
Flavors: bitter
Special Properties:
clears heat, eliminates toxins, disperses wind, resolves phlegm
Actions / Indications:
- Extinguishes wind; stops tremors (spasms,
tremors, convulsions with high fever due
to heat entering LV; LV fire creating internal wind)
- Opens orifices; vaporizes phlegm (delrium or coma
due to warm febrile or hot diseases with hot phlegm obstructing the
pericardium; wind-stroke; convulsions, seizures)
- Clears heat; relieves toxicity (red, swollen and
painful or ulcerated throat; sores, carbuncles, boils, wide variety
of hot swellings, topical or internal use)
Special Notes:
- often used with jie geng and ma
huang to open LU qi to dispel lingering factors
Contraindications:
- (cc: pregnancy)
- (cc: SP and ST deficiency)
- (cc: not for use when no heat excess is evident)
- (note: synthetic form is often used, non-synthetic must be CRUSHED
and ground into a powder)
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