Decoction to Dispel Swelling and Break Up Hard Masses

蘭室祕藏

Huangqin 8 qian (half stir-fried with wine, half used raw), Zhimu, Huangbai (stir-fried with wine), Longdancao (stir-fried with wine), Huafen (washed with wine), Jiegeng, Kunbu 5 qian, Chaihu 4 qian, Shengma, Lianqiao, Gancao (honey-fried), Sanleng (washed with wine), Guangzhu (washed with wine and stir-fried) 3 qian, Gegen, Guiwei (washed with wine), Shaoyao 2 qian, Huanglian 1 qian. Each dose 6-7 qian, soak for half a day first, decoct, take warm after meals; after taking, lie supine to keep the medicine in the upper diaphragm. Separately make half the amount into honey pills, reserve the decoction to swallow them. Take according to deficiency or excess. (Yi Fang Ji Jie)

Decoct nine bowls of water down to three bowls; take one bowl warm after each of the three meals.

湯劑

Dissipate nodules and soften hardness, clear heat and resolve toxin.

1. Heat toxin and phlegm stasis congesting the hand and foot Shaoyang meridians, causing horse-sabre sores (madao chuang), extending from below the ear to the supraclavicular fossa, or reaching the shoulder, or connecting to the hypochondrium, with hardness like stone. 2. Heat toxin and phlegm stasis congesting the foot Yangming meridian, causing scrofula, spreading across the neck, or reaching the cheek, hard and not ulcerated, or ulcerated with discharge of pus and fluid.

If there is yang deficiency, with a pale, swollen, tender tongue with teeth marks and slippery wet coating: add Pao Fuzi 10. -- For thyroid problems with a tendency to qi deficiency: combine with Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang.