牛黄镇惊丸

      Mandarin

      simpl.
      trad.

      Noun

      牛黄镇惊丸 (simplified, Pinyin niúhuáng zhènjīng wán, traditional 牛黃鎮驚丸)

      1. A yellowish-brown pill used in traditional Chinese medicine "to arrest convulsion and calm the nerves in the treatment of infantile convulsion due to high fever with trismus and restlessness".

      Niuhuang Zhenjing pills have the following herbal ingredients:

      Name Chinese (S) Grams
      Calculus Bovis 牛黄 80
      Scorpio 全蝎 300
      Bombyx Batryticatus (stir-baked) 僵蚕 (炒) 100
      Margarita 珍珠 100
      Moschus 麝香 40
      Cinnabaris 硃砂 100
      Realgar 雄黄 100
      Rhizoma Gastrodiae 天麻 200
      Ramulus Uncariae cum Uncis 钩藤 100
      Radix Saposhnikoviae 防风 200
      Succinum 琥珀 60
      Arisaema cum Bile 胆星 100
      Rhizoma Typhonii (processed) 白附子 (制) 100
      Rhizoma Pinelliae (processed) 半夏 (制) 100
      Concretio Silicea Bambusae 竹黄 100
      Borneolum Syntheticum 冰片 40
      Herba Menthae 薄荷 100
      Radix Glycyrrhizae 甘草 400

      References

      • State Pharmacopoeia Commission of the PRC (2005). "Pharmacopoeia of The People’s Republic of China (Volume I)". Chemical Industry Press. ISBN 7117069821.
      Last modified on 1 October 2011, at 22:15