败酱散

Name

Powder of Coix Seed, Mankshood and Patrinia

Source

The book Jin Gui Yao Lue

Ingredients

Explanation

Yi Yi Ren: The principal drug, being sweet and tasteless in flavor and slightly cold in nature, removing dampness and subduing swelling.

Bai Jiang Cao: Expelling pus and removing toxin.

Fu Zi: Being pungent in flavor and warm in nature, assisting Yi Yi Ren in removing cold-damp and promoting the flow of Qi.

Effect

Expelling pus and subduing swelling.

Indications

Syndrome of accumulation of cold-dampness and stagnated blood due to periappendicular abscess, marked by suppurative periappendicular abscess no fever, squamous and dry skin, swollen and feeling soft abdominal skin, and rapid pulse, including such diseases with the above symptoms and signs as acute appendicitis complicated by suppuration, appendicular abscess and chronic appendicitis.

Administration

Decocted in water for oral dose to be taken twice (Taken originally in the form of powder).