Calculus Bovis has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, relieving pain, enhancing and improving heart function, lowering blood pressure, promoting gallbladder function and protecting liver, and can be used for treating sore throat, sore mouth and tongue and apoplexy. Taurine can be used alone or in combination with musk, concretio silicea bambusae, gardenia, scutellaria baicalensis, cinnabar, borneol and other traditional Chinese medicines. Patients with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold and pregnant women are prohibited. When taking bezoar, we should pay attention to avoiding greasy and cold food, focusing on a light diet and paying attention to rest.
Calculus bovis is a traditional Chinese medicine, which comes from dried gallstones of cattle. Niuhuang has the functions of clearing away heart fire, resolving phlegm, inducing resuscitation, cooling liver, calming wind and detoxifying. Can be used for treating fever, coma, convulsion, epilepsy, sore throat, sore mouth and tongue, carbuncle and furuncle.
Niuhuang is sweet in taste and cool in nature, belonging to heart meridian and liver meridian, and is also widely used in clinic. Because bezoar has the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, eliminating phlegm and relieving convulsion, its resuscitation ability is not as good as that of musk and borneol. Clinically, it is compatible with musk, concretio silicea bambusae, scorpion and Uncaria rhynchophylla, which can play the role of resolving phlegm, inducing resuscitation, clearing away heat and relieving spasm; Compatibility with Coptidis Rhizoma, Scutellariae Radix, Fructus Gardeniae, Radix Curcumae, and Cinnabaris has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, inducing resuscitation and calming the nerves.
Calculus bezoar was originally a stone in the gallbladder of a sick cow, so it is rare and hard to get. Now, in addition to natural bezoar, there is also synthetic bezoar, the main components are similar to natural bezoar, and the effect is also good.