Boils are acute suppurative diseases that occur in the superficial parts of the skin that feel the fire poison, resulting in localized redness, swelling, heat and pain as the main manifestation. It can be divided into head boils, headless boils, mole crickets boils, boil disease and so on. It is characterized by red color, burning heat, pain, shallow protrusion, limited swelling, mostly about 3 cm in extent, easy to pus, easy to ulcerate, easy to converge. It is equivalent to boils, scalp piercing abscesses and boil diseases in Western medicine. Boils are also known as "heat boils" in Chinese medicine because they are considered to be the result of heat toxins invading the skin and belonging to the heat syndrome of sores and ulcers. Boils that are as small as nails and more reactive are called "boils". Boils are most common on the head, face, neck, back and buttocks; furuncles are mainly found on the face, fingers and toes. Although boils are small, their prevention and treatment should not be neglected.

Methods/steps

1, early to promote inflammation subside

Red stage can be used to apply hot compresses, ultrashort wave, infrared and other physiotherapy measures, but also can be applied to the oil mixed into a paste of traditional Chinese medicine Jinhuang San, Yulu San, or ichthyolipid ointment.

2, localized pus impatient drainage

boil top see pus or fluctuating feeling with carbolic acid point coated pus point or with a needle to pick out the pus plugs, or for incision and drainage, avoid extrusion. The pus is supplemented with furacilin, wet gauze, or Chinese herbal ointment to dissolve the decay and regenerate the muscle, until the lesion subsides.

3, antimicrobial treatment

If there is fever, headache, general discomfort and other systemic symptoms, facial boils or complications of acute lymphadenitis, lymphadenitis, penicillin or compound sulfamethoxazole and other antimicrobial drugs can be used to treat the disease, or with heat-clearing and detoxifying Chinese herbal prescriptions. Those with diabetes are given hypoglycemic drugs or insulin and other appropriate treatment measures. For recalcitrant patients can be injected with gammaglobulin, autologous bacterial vaccine or multivalent staphylococcal bacterial vaccine.

4, for the external ear canal, nose, upper lip boils must not be cut, not to mention squeeze, in order to prevent the spread of infection spread.

5, traditional Chinese medicine

Once a boil occurs, it is advisable to treat it both internally and externally. The internal service to clear the heat and detoxification of Chinese medicine, available honeysuckle, forsythia, purple flowers, dandelion, wild chrysanthemum, amaranth, each 15 grams, decoction to take. External application of heat-clearing and detoxifying herbs can be made with 60 grams of fresh amaranth, 60 grams of dandelion, 60 grams of septoria, or 60 grams of hibiscus young leaves, with a little salt, pounded, and applied externally to the affected area, and the medication can be changed 2-4 times a day, which is effective for boils that have not yet turned into pus. For those that have already suppurated, the boils must be allowed to mature and ulcerate, and the pus must flow out before they can gradually heal. You can also use fresh cypress leaves pounded, called egg whites and made into a paste, applied to the affected area.