Prescriptions for Treating Carbuncles and Abscess
Yiyi Fuzi Baijiang San
Name
Powder of Coix Seed, Mankshood and Patrinia
The Prescription of Yiyi Fuzi Baijiang San
Source
The book Jin Gui Yao Lue
Ingredients
Yi Yi Ren (Semen Coicis) 30 g,Fu Zi (Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata) 6 g,Bai Jiang Cao (Herba Patriniae) 15 g.Explanation
Yi Yi Ren: The principal drug, being sweet and tasteless in flavor and slightly cold in nature, removing dampness and subduing swelling.
Bai Jiang Cao: Expelling pus and removing toxin.
Fu Zi: Being pungent in flavor and warm in nature, assisting Yi Yi Ren in removing cold-damp and promoting the flow of Qi.
The Effect of Yiyi Fuzi Baijiang San
Effect
Expelling pus and subduing swelling.
Indications
Syndrome of accumulation of cold-dampness and stagnated blood due to periappendicular abscess, marked by suppurative periappendicular abscess no fever, squamous and dry skin, swollen and feeling soft abdominal skin, and rapid pulse, including such diseases with the above symptoms and signs as acute appendicitis complicated by suppuration, appendicular abscessand chronic appendicitis.
Administrations
Decocted in water for oral dose to be taken twice (Taken originally in the form of powder).
Sources and further reading
We cite classical materia medica and modern reference works. This article is health education, not medical advice.
- Shennong Bencao Jing (The Divine Farmer's Materia Medica), Han dynasty.
- Bencao Gangmu (Compendium of Materia Medica), Li Shizhen, 1578.
- Chinese Pharmacopoeia, current edition — identity, quality and safety monographs.
- NCCIH and WHO reference material on traditional medicine safety.
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