Pus-Draining Powder

金匱要略

Zhishi 16 pieces; Shaoyao 6 fen; Jiegeng 2 fen. The above three ingredients, pound into powder. Take one chicken egg yolk; make the medicinal powder equal to the egg yolk, knead and mix until well blended, then take it mixed, one dose per day. (Shang Han Za Bing Lun)

Grind the above items into powder and mix. For one dose, 3 g, add chicken egg yolk and stir well; take with plain boiled water. Take once or twice a day. Alternatively, the above amounts may be decocted as one day's dose.

湯劑

Clear heat and disperse stagnation, discharge pus and resolve abscess.

Pattern of stomach abscess or intestinal abscess where pus has formed and is about to rupture or has just ruptured, with relatively severe static heat. Symptoms include abdominal fullness and contracture, lower abdominal hardness, a mass at the base, pain on deep pressure, or passage of pus and blood in the stool, dry mouth, purple patches and purple spots on the tongue, thin yellow coating, and a slippery rapid pulse.

If there is yang deficiency, with a pale, enlarged, tender tongue with tooth marks and a watery, slippery coating: add Pao Fuzi (prepared aconite): 10, Ganjiang (dried ginger): 10. -- If not yet suppurated and hard: add Jinyinhua (honeysuckle flower): 10, Lianqiao (forsythia fruit): 10. -- If pus has formed and ruptured: add Huangqi (astragalus root): 30, Danggui (angelica root): 10.