Use of traditional Chinese medicine bezoars and bezoar-containing preparations in hepatocarcinoma

Table 1 Chinese herbal compounds containing bezoars and their anti-tumor effects

Drug	Drug composition	Efficacy	Disease treated
Pien tze huang[12]	Bezoar, notoginseng, snake gall, musk	Clearing heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and removing stasis	Liver cancer, chronic hepatitis
Xihuang pill[13]	Bezoar, musk, frankincense, myrrh	Clearing heat and detoxifying, and relieving swelling	Breast cancer, scrofula
Kehuang capsule[14]	Bezoar, musk, snake gall, notoginseng, scutellaria, coptis, phellodendron Curcuma	Clearing heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and clearing knot	Liver cancer, chronic hepatitis
Niuhuang tianlong capsule[15]	Xihuang pill plus or minus	Clearing heat and detoxifying, dispersing knot and removing blood stasis	Cervical cancer, endometrial cancer
Niuhuang xingxiao pill[16]	Bezoar, musk, frankincense, myrrh	Clearing heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and removing stasis	Breast cancer, scrofula