Niu Huang (Cattle Gallstone) - Chinese Herbal Medicine

Chinese Name: Niu Huang
English Name: Cattle Gallstone

Clinical Usage 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.

Functional Groups (Click for Summary/Study Notes)

Dosage and Preparation Notes

  • Dosage: 0.15-1g

Channels/Meridians Influenced

Associated Temperature and Taste

Cautions and Contraindications

  • Do not use during pregnancy.

Staff Clinician Notes

There are no additional notes for this herb.

Herbal Formulas Which Include This Herb

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  • Hui Chun Wan

    Formula Functions...  

    Most often used for childhood convulsions (possibly with wheezing, nausea, nighttime crying, vomiting, diarrhea, excessive mucus/saliva) or other conditions that involve fever, impaired or loss of consciousness, irritability, restlessness such as seizure disorders, meningitis, measles, and gastroenteritis among others.


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