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Bowtie Team
Updated on
2025-08-14
Disclaimer: This article is translated with the assistance of AI.
Bowtie invites a registered Chinese medicine practitioner to break down the benefits of Monkey Bezoar Powder, who it’s ideal for, and smart ways to compare top products on the market.
What is Monkey Bezoar Powder?
Monkey bezoar refers to calculi (such as gallstones or intestinal stones) from the internal organs of macaque monkeys and similar primates. Monkey Bezoar Powder was first documented in the “National Collection of Chinese Patent Medicine Prescriptions.” It’s made from monkey bezoar, antelope horn, mengshi stone, musk, borax, agarwood, tabasheer, fritillary bulb, and other herbs, serving as a remedy for acute conditions.
Benefits of Monkey Bezoar Powder
Monkey Bezoar Powder is composed of monkey bezoar, antelope horn, mengshi stone, musk, borax, agarwood, tabasheer, and fritillary bulb. Later versions added amber, whole scorpion, bezoar, pearl, and more. It offers benefits like clearing heat and resolving phlegm , as well as calming fright and opening orifices .
Who Should Take Monkey Bezoar Powder?
It’s suitable for children from one month to 12 years old with matching symptoms, such as:
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Phlegm-Heat Cough
Excessive yellow and sticky phlegm, high fever, sore throat, red tongue with yellow coating, dry and hard stools that are difficult to pass, etc.
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Phlegm-Heat Convulsions
Shortness of breath with wheezing, heavy coughing with abundant phlegm, palpitations and insomnia, damp-heat steaming phlegm, liver heat causing twitching, etc.
However, different brands have varying formulations and biases—check details below for more.
How to Take Monkey Bezoar Powder
Take it with warm water.
Compare Popular Monkey Bezoar Brands
Here’s a comparison of four popular Monkey Bezoar Powder products on the market, focusing on their benefits, indications, ingredients, and dosage methods :
| Ma XX Monkey Bezoar Powder | Yu XX Monkey Bezoar Phlegm-Resolving Powder | Wai XX Monkey Bezoar Phlegm-Removing Powder | Yin X Refined Monkey Bezoar Powder | |
| Benefits | Clears heat and resolves phlegm, stops cough and calms asthma, dispels wind and calms fright | Resolves phlegm and stops cough, clears lungs and smooths qi | Removes phlegm and stops cough, dispels wind and calms fright, strengthens spleen and benefits stomach, stops vomiting and diarrhea | Removes phlegm and calms fright, dispels wind and clears heat |
| Indications | Pediatric phlegm-heat convulsions, shortness of breath with wheezing, heavy coughing with abundant phlegm, palpitations and insomnia, damp-heat steaming phlegm, liver heat causing twitching | Cough with abundant and thick phlegm that’s hard to expectorate, chest discomfort, etc., caused by pediatric phlegm-heat obstructing the lungs | Pediatric excessive phlegm and cough, milk regurgitation, indigestion, and occasional diarrhea | Pediatric excessive phlegm with wheezing, persistent fever, palpitations and insomnia, etc. |
| Ingredients | Licorice, white cardamom, fritillary bulb, tabasheer, pearl, angelica dahurica, amber, monkey bezoar, acorus, whole scorpion, gleditsia sinensis, borneol | Monkey bezoar, arisaema with bile, pinellia ternata processed, ledebouriella root, fritillary bulb, refined tabasheer, raw licorice, aged tangerine peel | Codonopsis, poria, processed pinellia, honey-fried licorice, atractylodes, long pepper, aged tangerine peel, monkey bezoar, etc. | Tabasheer, processed gastrodia, arisaema with bile, silkworm, whole scorpion, pearl, pearl layer powder, in vitro cultured bezoar, borneol, monkey bezoar, menthol |
| Dosage | 1 vial per dose, 1-2 times daily. Halve for infants under 1 year, swallow with warm water. G6PD contraindicated. | Pour the powder onto a spoon and mix with warm water for consumption.
Newborns to 1 month: Once daily, 1/3 vial each time. 1 month to 3 years: Once daily, 1 vial each time. 3 to 12 years: Twice daily, 1 vial each time. |
Infants 3 to 12 months: Twice daily, 1 vial each time. Take with warm water. | 1 to 4 years: 1 vial per dose
Over 4 years: 2 vials per dose, 1-2 times daily, G6PD contraindicated. |
Monkey Bezoar Powder: Any Contraindications or Side Effects?
Cold syndromes or individuals allergic to the ingredients should not take it. If some brands include pearls, G6PD deficient individuals should avoid it.
Common Questions
Is Monkey Bezoar Powder Suitable for Adults?
Adults can take it too.
Can Monkey Bezoar Powder Help with COVID-19?
It’s effective for phlegm-heat cough in COVID-19 but not for cold cough. If symptoms don’t improve after 1-2 days, stop taking it.
For Infant Discomfort: Monkey Bezoar Powder or Bao Ying Dan?
For early-stage colds with fever, cough, and runny nose (wind-heat syndrome), choose Bao Ying Dan . For phlegm-heat lung obstruction cough, convulsions with shortness of breath, wheezing, thick phlegm, palpitations, and twitching (phlegm-heat syndrome), opt for Monkey Bezoar Powder . If symptoms don’t improve after 1-2 days, stop taking it.
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