Boils & Abscesses
Boil and Abscesses are generally initiated by Heat or Heat and Toxin. With strong Heat or Toxin (Bile), there is large, red, painful boils or abscesses with yellow pus. When there is less redness but excess white pus or fluid, there is Damp-Heat (Bile and Phlegm or Pituitous Humor). When they are dark colored it indicates Blood stasis. Chronic conditions with hard cysts indicate Phlegm or Melancholy.
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Western Tradition Decoction of Fumitory (Mesue) Decoction for Boils and Abscesses Decoction to Purify Syrup of Chicory and Rhubarb Troches of Agrimony Troches of Rhubarb Electuary of Senna Pills of Fumitory (Avicenna) Imperial Pills Indian Pills (Mesue) Mithridate (int & ext) Basilicum Plaster Lesser Plaster of Many Uses Oil of Violet Oil of Water Lily Oil of Toads Cerate of Sandalwood Lesser Basilicum Plaster Ungent of Celery Ointment of Sulphur 1. Neem, Turmeric, Picrorhiza (Ayurveda) 2. Camomile with Fenugreek as a polutice 3. Asafetida, Rue and Saltpeter applied. Abscesses from Toxic Heat Oil of Violets Cerate of Sandalwood To Ripen and Dissolve Abscesses Cerate of Andromachus Plaster of Yeast Diachilon Plaster To Resolve Hard Abscesses Oil of Dill Oil of Orris Apostles Plaster Diachilon Plaster with Gums |
TCM Classification Liver Heat, Heat & Damp Red eyes, headache, bitter taste, dark colored urine Huang Lian Jie Du Tang Long Dan Xie Gan Tang Heat-Toxin Fever, irritable, insomnia, bitter taste, high colored urine Huang Lian Jie Du Pian Niu Huang Jie Du Pian Fang Feng Tong Sheng San Shi Wei Bai Du San Wu Wei Xiao Du Yin Dian She Wan Yin Hua Jie Du Tang Yunnan Baiyao Xing Xiao Wan Liu Shen Wan Niu Huang Xiao Yan Wan Xi Huang Wan Heat with Blood Stagnation Abscess or boils with redness, dull color Da Huang Mu Dan Tang Ge Xia Zhu Yu Tang Huo Luo Xiao Ling Dan Zhen Ren Huo Ming Yin Dian She Wan Deficiency type Usually seen in elderly or weak (prone to ulceration); fails to come to a head, not red but dull-purplish looking painful lesions, fever, dry lips and mouth, constipation, yellow urine, poor appetite, weakness Qian Jin Nei Duo San Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang Yang He Tang Yunnan Baiyao |
Special Formula
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ELECTUARY FOR INTERNAL ABSCESSES Gum Ammoniac Sarcocolla 1 dram each Galbanum 2 drams Sugar Penids 3 drams Honey 1 spoonful Wine 2 measures Beat the gums and penids, mix with wine, put in a pot and add the wine and boil until melted and mixed. This is to be taken over 2 days. (Syrian “Book of Medicine“, trans. by Wallis Budge, 1913) |