ACUPUNTURA Y MASAJE TERAPÉUTICO

Niu Huang - Cattle bezoar, Bovine Bezoar, Cattle Gallstone (Calculus Bovis)

Properties: Cool, Bitter. Channels: Heart, Liver

Action and indication: Clears Heart, opens orifices, awakens spirit, vaporizes phlegm: delirium due to febrile diseases, hot phlegm obstructing Pericardium, wind-stroke, seizures. (An Gong Niu Huang Wan)

Clears Liver heat, extinguishes wind: spasms, tremors with fever.

Toxic heat swellings.

Contraindicated: pregnancy, Spleen and Stomach deficiency, absence of excess heat.

Antagonizes Long gu, Sheng di huang, Long dan cao, Chang shan, Niu xi.

Dose: 0.15-1g pills, powders