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<record type="herb" updated="2026-09-18T16:37:11.372561+00:00">
  <source>Bencao Index</source>
  <source-url>https://bencaoindex.com/</source-url>
  <canonical>https://bencaoindex.com/herbs/shui-niu-jiao/</canonical>
  <licence>Free to use and republish with visible attribution and a link back to the source page. The catalogue is a reference work and is knowingly incomplete; nothing in it is medical advice.</licence>
  <attribution-html>&lt;a href=&quot;https://bencaoindex.com/herbs/shui-niu-jiao/&quot;&gt;Bencao Index&lt;/a&gt;</attribution-html>
  <names>
    <name type="pinyin">shui niu jiao</name>
    <name type="chinese">水牛角</name>
    <name type="latin">Cornu Bubali</name>
    <name type="english">buffalo horn</name>
    <name type="japanese">suigyukaku</name>
    <name type="korean">suugak</name>
  </names>
  <category>Cools Blood</category>
  <channels>
    <channel>Stomach</channel>
    <channel>Heart</channel>
    <channel>Liver</channel>
  </channels>
  <actions>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat from the Ying and Xue levels, resolves Fire toxin, cools the Blood and stops bleeding</summary>
      <indication>Heat in the Ying or Xue level, or in the Blood, with very high fever and Blood moving recklessly: erythema, purpura, nosebleed, vomiting of blood, convulsions and delirium</indication>
    </action>
    <action>
      <summary>Clears Heat and stops tremors</summary>
      <indication>Warm-Heat disease that has reached the Ying or Xue level, with high fever that will not break, loss of consciousness, delirium, convulsions or manic behaviour</indication>
    </action>
  </actions>
</record>
