[Efficacy]

clearing heat and removing toxin, subduing swelling and softening hardness, dredging collaterals and relieving pain.

[Indications]

sore and ulcer: the initial onset of swelling and poisoning, local redness, swelling, heat, and pain, or slight aversion to cold body heat, thin white or thin yellow coating, and strong pulse.

[Prescription]

This formula is also known as Immortal Formula Life-Saving Decoction. The predecessors called this formula "the holy medicine for sore and ulcer" and the first formula in surgery. In the prescription, Yinhua clears heat and removes toxin, clearing away carbuncle and swelling; Chinese Angelica, frankincense, myrrh invigorating blood and resolving stasis, subduing swelling to relieve pain; Saposhnikovia Root, Dahurian Angelica evacuation of external evils, so that heat toxin can be dissolved from the outside into the body. Dried Tangerine Peel clearing away heat to dissipate mass; Fritillaria Bulb, smallpox clearing away heat to dissipate mass; Pangolin Scales, Gleditisia Spine promoting suppuration, assisting medicinal in total; Liquorice Root clearing heat and removing toxin, harmonizing various medicines For envoys. When all medicines are used together, heat toxin will be cleared and blood stasis will go away, qi and blood will be unblocked, swelling and pain will disappear, and sore and ulcer will heal themselves.

1. The carbuncle is red, swollen, hot and painful at the beginning.
2. Body heat slightly aversion to cold.
3. The pulse is strong and rapid.

[Addition and subtraction]

1. Heat, severe swelling and pain: add Dandelion, Forsythia, Tokyo Violet Herb.
2. aversion to cold: Add Schizonepeta.

[Attention to taboos]

It is contraindicated for those with swollen and hard vaginal gangrene. Use with caution if spleen is deficient in loose stool.

[Modern application]

Modern medicine believes that this prescription is antibacterial, inhibits viruses, reduces inflammation, relieves fever, and improves blood circulation. Mainly used for acute soft tissue purulent infection, acute suppurative tonsillitis, acute mastitis, acute appendicitis, chronic appendicitis, appendiceal abscess, testicular inflammation, adnexal inflammation, and ulcer disease. The affected area is red, swollen, hot and painful, and the pulse is strong. .