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Boils
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Freq on Head, face, and extremities.
Philtrum Boil. On finger tip: snake head boil. "red-thread boil" if there is a red line from out of boil |
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Etiology and Patho of Boils
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Caused by fatty and spicy food or contamination of skin. Heat in Zang-Fu. Latter is qi and blood stag in skin.
Clear Heat. Move Blood. |
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Differentiation of Boils
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1st appears like a grain of millet in yellow or purple color. A blister or pustule with hard base, tingling. Later, more redness and chills and fever. If interior= high fever, restlessness, dizziness, vomiting, impaired consciousness- reddened tongue with yellow coating. Sometimes red line extends and attacks interior.
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Treatment of Boils
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pts on Governor and Hand Yangming.
Du 10 (Emp pt to tx boils). Du 12, Pc 4 (xi-cleft), LI4, BL40 - pts along affected meridian LI11 on temporal region: GB34, GB44 In face: LI11, LI 4, ting well, St 45 Use He-Sea pts. " the therapeutic effect will reach where meridian is opened up" Yang Qiao XC: UB59, Yang Wei: GB 35; Yin Qiao: Kd8; |
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Breast Abscess Etiology and Patho
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Retention of milk in breast due to mental depression affecting the qi of the liver
*too much fatty food= stag of ht in St. *obstruc of duct after invasion of toxic fire into breast. |
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Differentiation of breast abscesses
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Redness, swelling and pain of breast, mostly after delivery.
*begins with lump with swelling, distension, pain, diff lactation, chills, fever, HA, nausea and dire thirst. *intermittent throbbing pain |
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Treatment of breast abscesses
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Lv, Gb, St meridians: remove stagnation and disperse heat.
GB 21, Ren 17, St 18, SI1, St 36, Lv3, Chills and fever: LI4, SJ5 Distenstion and pain in brst: GB41 Pts to stop lactation: GB 39, GB41 Bleed and cup UB 43 (t4) - jin yin hua, ye ju hua, gan cao |
