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<record type="herb" updated="2026-09-18T16:36:26.572567+00:00">
  <source>Bencao Index</source>
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  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">niu huang</name>
  </names>
  <channels>
    <channel>Heart</channel>
    <channel>Liver</channel>
  </channels>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears the Heart, opens the orifices with aroma, revives the Shen and transforms Phlegm</summary>
      <indication>Delirium or coma when Hot Phlegm blocks the Pericardium or a Warm-Heat pathogen invades</indication>
      <indication>Hot-closed disorder: in warm febrile disease, high fever with delirium or unconsciousness</indication>
      <indication>Phlegm-Heat clouding the sensory orifices</indication>
      <indication>Seizures, convulsions or Wind-stroke</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears the Liver, resolves Fire toxin, extinguishes Wind and stops tremor</summary>
      <indication>Liver Wind stirred by extreme Heat, with high fever, spasm, tremor or convulsions</indication>
      <indication>Convulsions in children</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Drains Heat and resolves Fire toxin</summary>
      <indication>Carbuncles, boils and many kinds of hot swellings (Chuang Yung); may be used alone</indication>
      <indication>Sore, painful throat, and ulcers of the mouth and tongue</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
</record>
