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Niu Huang Qing Xin Wan牛黃清心丸

Cattle Gallstone Pill to Clear the Heart

Medicinals
6

Composition

  • Niu HuangCalculus Bovis0.75 g

    Clears the Heart, opens the Orifices aromatically, awakens the Spirit, vaporizes Phlegm, clears the Liver, relieves Fire toxicity, extinguishes Wind, stops tremors, drains Heat and resolves Fire toxicity.

    • Huang Lian, Zhi Zi
    Zhu Sha, for delirium and irritability due to Heat attacking the Pericardium, as in Ying* Stage Heat.
  • Zhu ShaCinnabaris4.5 g

    Sedates the Heart, calms the Spirit, expels Phlegm, sedates jitteriness and convulsions while stopping tremors, clears Heat and relieves toxicity.

    for disturbances of the Spirit as a result of Heart Fire.
  • Huang LianRz. Coptidis15 g

    Clears Heat, drains Dampness, drains Fire, resolves Fire toxicity, stops bleeding, clears Heart Fire and drains Stomach Fire.

  • Huang QinRx. Scutellariae9 g

    Clears Heat, dries Dampness, drains Fire, detoxifies, cools the Blood, stops bleeding and calms ascending Liver *Yang.*

    drains pathogenic Heat from the Upper and Middle Jiaos for high fever, redness, swelling and pain of the head and face, dry mouth, parched throat, ulcerations of the mouth and tongue, epistaxis, rashes and irritability in warm-febrile disease.
    • Zhi Zi
    powerfully clears and drains lurking Heat from the Lungs with fever, fullness in the chest, cough with yellow sputum and epistaxis or hematemesis.
    for acute febrile disease.
  • Zhi ZiFr. Gardeniae9 g

    Clears Heat, reduces Fire, eliminates irritability, cools the Blood and relieves toxicity.

  • Yu JinRx. Curcumae6 g

    Invigorates the Blood, dispels Blood Stasis, regulates Qi flow, clears Heat, cools the Blood, clears the Heart and Pericardium and opens the Orifices.

Actions

  • Eliminates Heat
  • Removes toxins
  • Unblocks the Orifices
  • Settles the Shen

Patterns treated

Heat Penetrating the Pericardium

Manifestations

  • Elevated fever that intensifies at night
  • Anxious feelings
  • Agitation
  • Mouth dryness
  • Inability to sleep
  • Short temper
  • Slight thirst without any wish to drink fluids
  • Disturbed mental state
  • Generalized unease
  • Confused, delirious state
  • Becoming unconscious
  • Impaired speech
  • Rashes that are red, dry and painful
Tongue body
Deep-red hue
Coating
Minimal or absent
Pulse
Thin in quality and rapid in rate

Indications

  • Elevated body temperature
  • Delirious states
  • Convulsions in children
  • Eclamptic seizures
  • Comatose state
  • Loss of speech ability
  • Epileptic seizures

Modifications

    • +for Eclampsia:
    • +Increase Dosage Of All Ingredients To 30g

Cautions

Cinnabaris (Zhu Sha) carries toxicity and a substitute should be used in its place.