牛黄作为药物使用,在中国已有两千余年的历史。《神农本草经》中把它列为“上品”之药。明代著名医家缪希雍对它作了更高的评价:“牛为土畜,惟食百草,其精华凝结为黄,犹人身之有内丹也,故能解百毒而消痰热,散心火而疗惊痫,为世神物,诸药莫及也。”著名的“中医三宝”的安宫牛黄丸、紫雪丹、至宝丹,以及六神丸、牛黄上清丸、牛黄解毒丸等,都是以牛黄为主要成份的。 Niuhuang is used as a drug and has been in China for more than two thousand years. “Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing” listed it as a “top grade product” drug. The famous Ming physician Ming Xixi made a higher evaluation on it: "A cow is a native animal, but he eats a hundred herbs. Its essence is condensed into yellow, and the person of Jude himself also has inner Dan, so he can solve the poison and eliminate the heat, Divide the fire and treat epileptic seizures, as the world’s holy things, and all kinds of medicines.” “Famous” TCM Sambo, Angong Niuhuang Pills, Zixue Dan, Zhibao Dan, and Liushen Pills, Niuhuang Shangqing Pills, Niuhuang Detoxification Pills, etc., are mainly composed of bezoar.