Niu Huang Usages and Indications

• Clears the heart, opens the orifices, awakens the spirit, vaporizes phlegm - delirium or coma due to wind-heat or hot diseases with hot phlegm obstructing the pericardium.
• Clears the liver, relieves toxicity, extinguishes wind, stops tremors - spasms, tremors, convulsions with high fever due to heat entering the liver.
• Drains heat and relieves fire toxicity - red, painful, swollen, or ulcerated throat as well as for sores, carbuncles, boils, and a wide variety of hot swellings.

Cautions and Contraindications

• Do not use during pregnancy.
All Cautions

Dosage and Preparation Notes For Niu Huang

• Dosage: 0.15-1g

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Our database contains 3 TCM Formulas where Niu Huang is generally used

A

• An Gong Niu Huang Wan -Calm The Palace Pill With Cattle Gallstone (Clear Heat)

H

• Hui Chun Wan -Recovery Special Pill (Open the Orifices)

M

• Ma Ying Long -Musk Hemorrhoid Ointment (Clear Heat)

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