But what many people don't know is that some "fires" can be reduced if they don't want to, and Niuhuang detoxification can only be aimed at specific indications.
What does bezoar detoxify?
Pharmaceutical composition: Calculus Bovis, Realgar, Gypsum Fibrosum, Radix et Rhizoma Rhei, Scutellariae Radix, Radix Platycodi, Borneolum Syntheticum and Glycyrrhrizae Radix.
According to China Pharmacopoeia (2020 edition), Niuhuang Jiedu Tablet is mainly used for clearing away heat and toxic materials, and can be used for diseases such as excessive internal heat, sore throat, swollen gums, sores on the mouth and tongue, and red eyes.
Note: Drugstores generally have Niuhuang Jiedu tablets and Niuhuang Jiedu pills. Tablets have no auxiliary materials, and their efficacy is more powerful. The pill contains auxiliary material honey, which is mild and more suitable for the elderly.
Cannot reduce deficiency fire
Traditional Chinese medicine divides fire into "real fire" and "virtual fire", and virtual fire is the most common one of yin deficiency.
Detoxification of Niuhuang is mainly effective for "excess fire", but it may be useless or even aggravate symptoms for deficiency fire. Virtual fire cannot be used! Virtual fire cannot be used! Virtual fire cannot be used!
Detoxification of bezoar for external use
Besides oral administration, Niuhuang Jiedu Tablet can also be used externally to treat the following diseases:
1. Acute pharyngitis
Symptoms: acute pharyngitis caused by high fever, with symptoms such as sore throat and swollen gums.
Usage: Take 2-4 Niuhuang Jiedu tablets, grind them into fine powder, add 75% alcohol or common white wine, make them into paste, apply them to one side of Adam's apple and fix them with adhesive tape. /kloc-After 0/2h, switch to the other side, or apply on both sides at night. Generally, the throat feels comfortable after 20min minutes of application, and the symptoms can be relieved by applying 1-2 times.
2. Viral mumps
Symptoms: the onset of viral mumps is acute, and there are often precursor symptoms such as fever, headache and loss of appetite. The parotid gland is most commonly involved, and the swelling is generally centered on the earlobe, developing forward, backward and downward, with unclear edges and mild tenderness.
Usage: Niuhuang Jiedu tablets are ground into fine powder, mixed with rice vinegar into a thin paste and applied to the affected area, covered with a layer of sterile gauze and fixed with adhesive tape. Change the medicine every day 1 time, and it usually takes 3-5 days to take effect.
3. Simple folliculitis
Symptoms: Congestive papules will appear in the early stage of simple folliculitis, which will soon turn into small pustules, accompanied by pain, and the number of small pustules varies. Children tend to grow hair, and adults are more likely to grow hair.
Usage: Niuhuang Jiedu Tablet 10 Tablet is ground into powder, and then it is mixed with honey and applied locally, 1-2 times a day.
4. pigsty
Symptoms: Stylopathy, also known as eye of the needle and blepharitis, is an acute suppurative inflammation of sebaceous glands or meibomian glands near eyelashes and hair follicles. The eyelid skin will appear localized redness, swelling, heat and pain, and edema near the bulbar conjunctiva.
Usage: Take 1-2 tablets each time, grind them into powder, add appropriate amount of erythromycin eye ointment, mix them evenly in a sterile mixing tray, and apply them to the affected area to cover the whole furuncle. Twice a day, without changing the medicine.
5. Furuncle and swelling
Symptoms: boils are mostly located in the compressed parts of the human body and the parts with strong oil secretion, such as head, face, neck, armpit and buttocks. At first, it was follicular inflammatory papule, and then it gradually increased, showing red hard nodules with pain or tenderness.
Usage: Mix Niuhuang Jiedu Tablet and Jingwanhong Ointment to make paste and apply it to the affected area. Cover the ointment with a layer of sterile gauze and fix it with adhesive tape. Change the dressing every day 1 time.
6. Acute suppurative mastitis
Symptoms: Acute suppurative mastitis mostly occurs during lactation, especially within 1~2 months after delivery of primipara, which is called "mammary abscess" in Chinese medicine.
Milk stasis is accompanied by bacterial infection, characterized by acute inflammation, redness, swelling, heat and pain, chills and high fever. The incidence of acute mastitis in primiparas is as high as 2%~4%, which is 1 times higher than that in multiparas.
Usage: mix Niuhuang Jiedu tablets with distiller's grains, make paste and apply it to the affected area, cover the ointment with a layer of sterile gauze, and fix it with adhesive tape, and change the dressing twice a day. Generally, after 3 days of treatment, the breast lump becomes soft and can be cured in a few days.
7. suppurative otitis media
Symptoms: Acute suppurative otitis media is caused by the invasion of suppurative bacteria such as Streptococcus and Staphylococcus into the middle ear, which is characterized by fever, earache and pus discharge.
Usage: clean the affected ear with hydrogen peroxide, then dry it with a cotton swab, and then grind a proper amount of Niuhuang Jiedu tablets into fine powder and blow it into the ear, once a day, three times for 1 course of treatment, and generally it can be cured after 2-3 courses of treatment.
Precautions and taboos
1. Don't overdo it.
Niuhuang Jiedu tablets should not exceed 3 tablets each time, 3 times a day. Niuhuang Jiedu Pill 1 pill once, no more than 3 times a day.
2. Don't use it for a long time
Generally, the drug should be stopped after 3 days of medication. If there are adverse reactions, seek medical advice in time.
3. The following groups are prohibited: pregnant women and lactating women; Infants (0~3 years old); Allergic to this product and its ingredients.
4. Use with caution for the following people: those with weak spleen and stomach and loose stools; Patients with severe liver injury; Patients with acute and chronic kidney diseases; Athletes.
5. Contraindications of combined medication
Can not be used together with traditional Chinese medicines containing realgar, such as Angong Niuhuang Pill, Niuhuang Zhen Jing Pill, Niuhuang Zhibao Pill, Niuhuang Xiaoyan Tablet, Xiaoer Qingre Tablet, Xiaoer Huadu Powder, Xiaoer Zhibao Pill, Xiaoer Jingfeng Powder, Qizhen Pill and Liu Ying Pill.
The prescription of Niuhuang Jiedu Pill contains tannin, so be careful not to take it together with tetracycline, sulfonamides, erythromycin, griseofulvin, lincomycin, chloramphenicol, amoxicillin, rifampicin and isoniazid.
The above are for clinical reference only, and patients should follow the doctor's advice.
Produced by Jilin Daily
Planning: Jiang
Author: Zhuang Zhuang