What are the side effects of cow bezoar? Understand clearly before taking it

Cow bezoar is the medicinal part of the bovine animals cattle and water buffalo, mainly the stones in the gallbladder, bile duct or hepatic duct. As medicine it has the effects of reducing fever, detoxifying and calming fright. Taken internally it treats high fever with loss of consciousness, mania, infantile convulsions, twitching and other conditions; applied externally it treats sore throat, mouth sores and boils, and uremia. Let us take a look below at what side effects cow bezoar has!

What side effects does cow bezoar have?

Cow bezoar can clear heat and detoxify, and mainly treats sore throat, mouth and tongue sores, and carbuncles, abscesses and furuncles. However, excessive use can cause poisoning, manifesting as increased gastrointestinal activity, diarrhea, increased skeletal muscle activity, convulsions and spasms, and in severe cases inhibition, along with decreased blood pressure, arrhythmia, and reduced red blood cells and hemoglobin, and finally the patient becomes semi-comatose or comatose, ultimately dying of respiratory and circulatory failure.

How is cow bezoar poisoning given emergency treatment?

1. In the early stage of cow bezoar poisoning, vomiting should be induced and the stomach washed, then a general antidote taken.

2. In cow bezoar poisoning, central nervous system stimulants may be given to counteract its central inhibitory effect.

3. In cow bezoar poisoning, when blood pressure drops, a pressor agent may be added to intravenous fluids.

4. In cow bezoar poisoning, when abdominal pain and diarrhea are severe, belladonna tablets may be taken orally or atropine sulfate injected subcutaneously, repeated if necessary.

The effects and actions of cow bezoar

1. Cow bezoar has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying. For sore throat, ulceration, and mouth and tongue sores, it can be used externally with musk, pearl, borneol and the like, such as Babao Throat-Blowing Powder, or taken internally with Paris polyphylla, honeysuckle, skullcap, realgar and the like, such as Niuhuang Jiedu Pill, and it treats all carbuncles, abscesses and furuncles; it is the main therapeutic drug for breast cancer, scrofula, and abscesses.

2. Cow bezoar has the effects of clearing heat and cooling the liver, and extinguishing wind and stopping spasms. It is used to treat convulsions and twitching caused by excess heat in warm-febrile disease, often combined with cinnabar, scorpion tail, gambir vine and the like, such as Niuhuang Powder; to treat acute infantile convulsions, high fever with disturbed consciousness, and spasmodic twitching, it can be combined with musk, pig cinnabar, bamboo shavings and the like, such as Niuhuang Baolong Pill.

3. Cow bezoar can clear the heart and eliminate phlegm, and open the orifices and awaken the spirit. It is used for warm-febrile disease with heat entering the pericardium, disturbed consciousness and delirium, or for wind-stroke, convulsions, epilepsy and other conditions with phlegm-heat blocking the pericardium causing unconsciousness with lockjaw and loss of awareness; used alone as a powder dissolved in light bamboo juice, it is the formula from Waitai Miyao for treating infantile lockjaw, and if combined with aromatic, cinnabar, rhinoceros horn, coptis and the like its effect is especially notable, such as Angong Niuhuang Pill.