Chinese Herbal Formulas That Clears Heat and Opens the Orifices

An Gong Niu Huang Wan

Calm the Palace Pill with Cattle Gallstone

Main Actions for An Gong Niu Huang Wan

This TCM herbal formula clears heat and relieves toxicity. It also clears phlegm, opens the orifices and calms the spirit. This chinese medicine formula is best used in conditions of severe pathogenic heat which sinks into the pericardium disturbing the spirit.

Indications and symptoms for An Gong Niu Huang Wan

high fever, irritability, restlessness, delirious speech, impaired consciousness, wind stroke coma, convulsions, frigid extremities

Tongue – red or dark red

Pulse – rapid

Medicinal Ingredients of An Gong Niu Huang Wan

Niu Huang (Calculus Bovis, Cattle Gallstone, Bezoar) - 30g.

clearing heat from heart and liver, relieves toxicity, dislodges phlegm

Xi Jiao (Comu Rhinoceri, Rhinoceros Horn) - 30g.

-clearing fire from heart, liver and stomach, calms spirit

She Xiang (Secretio Moschus, Naval Secretions of Musk Deer, Musk) - 7.5g.

-opens up orifices, revives spirit

Huang Lian (Rhizoma, Coptidis, Coptis Rhizome) - 30g.

-clear heat, bring heat downward

Huang Qin (Radix Scutellariae Baicalensis, B aical Skullcap Root, Scutellaria, Scute) - 30g.

-clear heat, bring heat downward

Zhi Zi (Fructus Gardeniae Jasminoidis, Cape Jasmine Fruit, Gardenia) - 30g.

-clear heat, bring heat downward

Xiong Huang (Realgar) - 30g.

-clears phlegm, relieves toxicity

Bing Pian (Borneol) - 7.5g.

-unblock orifices, clears heat

Yu Jin (Tuber Curcumae, Tumeric Tuber, Curcuma) - 30g.

-unblock orifices, clears heat

Zhu Sha (Cinnabaris, Cinnabar) - 30g.

-sedate heart, calm spirit, clear heat from liver and heart

Zhen Zhu (Magarita,Pearl) - 15g.

-sedate heart, calm spirit, clear heat from liver and heart

Preparation Instructions of An Gong Niu Huang Wan

grind all natural ingredients into powder and form into pills using honey. Pills should be 3 grams each and were traditionally coated with gold leaf (not practiced today). Each 3gram pill is taken 2-3 times per day with warm water, children should take half this dosage.

Additional Points on An Gong Niu Huang Wan

This TCM herbal formula is used in the serious stage of warm febrile disease when the pathogenic heat invades the pericardium disturbing ones Shen. The combination of severe heat and phlegm obstructing the orifices (phlegm heat) may lead to coma, delirious speech, impaired consciousness, restlennness and irritability.

This alternative medicine herbal formula has been successfully used to treat patients with acute encephalitis, acute meningitis, acute hepatitis, pneumonia, dysentery, uremia, hepatic coma, cerebrovascular accident (CVA) and schizophrenia.