bubble_chart Indications

To treat hemorrhoids and fistula disease with pus and blood, dry stool accumulation, and unbearable pain.

bubble_chart Supplementary Formulas

This prescription removes White Atractylodes Rhizome and Immature Orange Fruit Sanguisorba, and adds Atractylodes Rhizome, Phellodendron Bark, Rhubarb Rhizoma, Areca Seed, and Saposhnikovia Root, named Gentian Atractylodes Rhizome Decoction, treating the same condition. [Li Dong-yuan said: The formation of lumps in the intestinal head is due to dampness. Severe pain is caused by wind. Dryness and accumulation in the stool are due to combined heat and fire. This is a combination of dampness, heat, wind, and dryness, four pathogenic factors. To treat, remove these four factors with qi-breaking herbs, and the treatment is complete.]
1. This prescription removes Chinese Honeylocust Fruit, Immature Orange Fruit, Sanguisorba, and adds Saposhnikovia Root, Cimicifuga Rhizome, Bupleurum, Dried Tangerine Peel, Rhubarb Rhizoma, Phellodendron Bark, Carthamus, and roasted licorice, named Gentian Saposhnikovia Root Decoction, treating hemorrhoid fistula disease with pain during bowel movements. [Dong-yuan said: If there is no pain, it is not hemorrhoid fistula disease.]
2. This prescription uses Gentian alone, adding Notopterygium, Saposhnikovia Root, Ephedra, Cimicifuga Rhizome, Bupleurum, Chinese Lovage, Asarum, Astragalus Root, roasted licorice, and Carthamus, named Gentian Notopterygium Decoction, treating hemorrhoid fistula disease with lumps hanging down and unbearable itching.
3. This prescription removes Sanguisorba and adds Rhubarb Rhizoma and Carthamus, named Gentian Chinese Angelica Decoction, treating hemorrhoid fistula disease with dryness and accumulation in the stool causing pain. [All of the above are Dong-yuan's prescriptions.]