Diseases of the Breast
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Western Tradition To Firm the Breasts 1. Ivy leaf, boiled in Vinegar and applied, was said to sagging breasts to help them become firm and round. 2. ‘A Garland made of Ivy berries, laid to the breasts of Women that hang flagging, gathers them up together decently, and makes them round; the like will Ivy leaves do, if they be beaten, and applied to them’. (Culpeper) 3. Yarrow was “used to firm Sagging Breasts ‘causing them to grow less and hard [firm]”, 4. Beat Plantain leaf to a mash, mix with well beaten egg whites to form a Cataplasm. 5. “If a woman anoint often her Dugs or Paps [Breasts] with the juice of Chicory, it will make them little, round and hard, or if they be hanging or baggy, it will draw them together, whereby they shall seem as the dugs [breasts] of a Maid”. (Mizald) 6. Dip a cloth in the distilled water of Dodder and apply often. 7. Boil Poppies in water; dip a cloth in and apply. 8. Long Pepper boiled in Sesame Oil is applied as a pad over the breast. It is said to be very effective for sagging breasts, lifting them, and making them firmer. 9. Long Pepper, Costus, Calamus, Withania. Make an ointment and apply (Ayurveda) 10. “Some physicians state that the blood of bat retains the shape of the breast but this is far from truth. According to some other physicians one qirii{ (250 mg) of pure, fresh and hot blood obtained from a kid is taken with vinegar for 3 days for the same purpose”. 11. Applying Menstrual Blood to the Breasts makes sagging breasts become firm. (Secrets of Alexis) CURRANT WINE Currants 1 handful Boil them in wine; then distill. This water is to be massaged onto the breasts every day for 8 days, once per year. To increase Breast Size 1. Cumin has developed a reputation to increase Breast size 2. Fennel seed 3. Agnus Castus seeds increases Breast tissue 4. Roasted Fenugreek seeds were traditionally eaten by women in Harems to give them a more shapely body, and increase Breast size. Breast Lumps from Obstructed Milk Topical applications for Swellings from corrupt Milk: 1. Linseed meal, Lentil meal, mixed with Oil of Rose and Saffron 2. Marrubium, Ebulus, Poppy leaf, Wormwood, Rue, Dodder, apply warm 3. Mix Egg and Oil of Rose 4. Mix powdered Egg shell, boiled Egg Yolk, Saffron and Oil of Roses and apply. 5. Tragacanth, Gum Arabic, Egg White and Oil of Violets 6. Houseleek juice, Black Nightshade juice, egg white, oil of Rose 7. Agrimony, Vervain, Fennel boiled in wine and applied. 8. Ointment of Marshmallow (Dialthea) 9. Dandelion, Plantain, Sage chopped and boiled in wine and applied. (Natura exenterata, Philiatros, 1655) Breast Pain: 1. Mix Sulphur and Vinegar and apply. 2. Mix Barley meal, Mustard seed powder and Vinegar and apply. Breast, Hardness of, Fibroids, Tumors 1. Earth and Vinegar applied as a plaster 2. Bean beaten with Egg white and applied 3. Lentils infused in vinegar and applied 4. Bread crumbs mixed with Celery juice and applied. 5. Mallow stamped with oil, made hot, and applied 6. Rue juice, Wheat flour, Honey, Olive oil, applied 7. Henbane seed stamped in wine and applied 8. Sulphur mixed with wine and applied 9. Goat dung mixed with Vinegar and Bran and applied 10. Mice dung mixed with water and applied Decoction for Boils and Abscess Decoction for Cancer (Fuller) Decoction of Dodder of Thyme (Rhasis) Syrup of Dodder of Thyme (Mesue) Syrup of Fumitory Lesser (Mesue) Syrup to Purge all Humors of Frankfurt Hiera Pachii Powder of Gum Lacca Lesser (Dialacca Minor) (Mesue) Pills of Rhubarb (Mesue) Pills of Rhubarb (Greater) (Pil. de Raved Sceni) (Mesue) Indian Pills (Mesue) Triphera Persica (Mesue) Greater Universal Women’s Disease Conqueror (Mo nad spyi ‘joms chen mo) (Tibetan) Oil of Bitter Almonds Oil of Orris Plaster of Ammoniacum Plaster of Bayberries (Mesue) Plaster of Garlic Plaster of 4 Ingredients Plaster of Meliot Plaster of Saffron of Vigo Ointment of Marshmallow (Nicolas) Diachilon Diachilon with Orris Diachilon with Gums Ulcers and Cancer of the Breast ‘Plaster of the Jew of Steten’ 1. Plaster of Litharge 2. Plaster of Black Nightshade 3. Olive leaf beaten and applied ‘kills the Cancer in womens breast’ (The Treasury of Health, 1550) Breast, Fistulas of Decoction for Cancer |
TCM Classification Breast Lumps Qi Stagnation Breasts tenderness, lumps that come and go, especially before the period, PMS, emotional, headache, mild stress or depression Si Ni San Xiao Yao San Dan Zhi Xiao Yao San Chai Hu Shu Gan San Heat and Toxin Breast Abscess or hard swelling that’s red and painful Wu Wei Xiao Du Yin Xi Huang Wan Heat, or Heat and Damp Irritable, headache, restless, angry, red tongue with a yellow coating, rapid pulse Dan Zhi Xiao Yao San Long Dan Xie Gan Tang Phlegm and Damp Stagnation Lumps in the breast, fibrocytic Breast disease, cough with white sputum, nausea, coated tongue and a slippery pulse Er Chen Tang Hai Zao Yu Hu Tang Blood Stasis with Phlegm Chronic lumps, fixed pain, clotted menstruation, dysmenorrhea, purplish tongue coat with dark spots, dark lips, choppy pulse Gui Zhi Fu Ling Wan Zhen Ru Huo Ming Yin Huo Luo Xiao Ling Dan Yang Deficiency Painful swelling that doesn’t form a head, no redness; person is weak, feels the cold, has a pale tongue and a deep, weak pulse Yang He Tang |
Special Formula
For Hard Breast Lumps
“In tumors of Scrofulas, or hard Impostumes of the Breast, I have used the oil of Turpentine mixed with Mistletoe of the Oak in form of an Ungent”. (114 Experiments and Cures of Paracelsus, 1652)
Hyperplasia of the Breast
Hedyotis Bai Hua She She Cao 20g
Bupleurum Chai Hu 15g
Curcuma Yu Jin 15g
Citrus Zhi Ke 15g
Scrophularia Xuan Shen 15g
Angelica Dang Gui 12g
Ligusticum Chuan Xiong 12g
Self Heal (Xia Ku Cao) 12g
Dandelion (Pu Gong Ying) 12g
Oyster shell (Mu Li) 20g
Cyperus Xiang Fu 15g
Peonia Bai Shao 12g
Licorice (Gan Cao) 6g.
Decoct to be taken once daily.