TRADITIONAL INTERNAL MEDICINE – DISEASES & FORMULAS

Boils and 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.

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)

Powder for Abscess (Al-Kindi)
Stronger Powder for Abscess (Al-Kindi)
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
Stronger Powder for Abscess (Al-Kindi)
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

ELECTUARY FOR INTERNAL ABSCESSES

    Gum Ammoniac
    Sarcocolla                      1 dram ea.
    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)

“DRUG FOR ABSCESSES FOR WHICH THE LANCET IS NOT INDICATED”

    Aloe
    Myrrh
    Sarcocolla
    Gum ammoniac
    Verdigris                          equal parts
Powder, sprinkle on the abscess and cover with cloth. (The Medical Formulary of Al-Kindi)

STRONGER POWDER FOR ABSCESS

    Aloe
    Myrrh
    Gum ammoniac
    Frankincense
    Pomegranate flower
    Minium                              1 part ea.
    Verdigris                          ½ part
Powder, sprinkle on the abscess and cover with cotton. (The Medical Formulary of Al-Kindi)

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