Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the causes of hemorrhoids are related to wind, dampness, heat, dryness, Qi deficiency, and blood deficiency. Therefore, generally speaking, Chinese medicine treatment of hemorrhoids can be divided into two methods: internal treatment and external treatment. Chinese medicine sitz bath is one of the external treatments. To sum up, it can be summarized as follows: clearing heat and cooling blood, clearing away heat and dampness, clearing away heat and detoxifying, replenishing qi and blood, purging heat and unblocking the bowels, nourishing yin and moisturizing dryness, tonifying the middle and replenishing qi, activating blood and removing blood stasis, nourishing yin and clearing away heat, and warming yang and strengthening the spleen.
Usage of Fang Yi: Crush the medicine and place it in a basin, add 2,000 mL of hot water to dissolve the medicine. The patient sits on the basin and first uses hot air to fumigate the anus/orbital area. After the temperature of the water drops, the affected area is washed with medicinal water and sitz bathed in the basin until the water cools down. The patient is fumigated two to three times a day.
Effectiveness: It can cure external hemorrhoids.
Usage of the second recipe: Grind all the above herbs except Glauber's salt into fine powder and put them into a small cloth bag for later use. When using, put the medicine bag and Glauber's salt into a basin, add 2500mL of hot water, and soak for half an hour. Next, the patient takes a sitz bath and fumigates the affected area for twenty minutes. One dose of this prescription is taken daily, and each dose is fumigated and washed twice, once in the morning and once in the evening. When using this liquid for the second time, just warm the liquid. After the affected area has been fumigated and washed, a small amount of Hemorrhoids Ointment should be applied. This method takes seven days as a course of treatment.
Function: It can treat inflammatory mixed hemorrhoids, incarcerated hemorrhoids, thrombosed hemorrhoids, etc.
Usage of the three prescriptions: decoct the medicine in water and remove the residue, then fumigate and wash the anus/portal for tens of minutes while it is hot, two to three times a day, and can be used continuously for one week.
Effectiveness: It can treat various types of external hemorrhoids.
Usage of Fangsi Preparation: Add 2,000 mL of water to boil the medicine, pour it into a basin, fumigate first and then wash, fumigate and wash twice a day. The liquid can be used repeatedly for two days. This method can be used continuously for multiple days.
Function: It can cure internal and external hemorrhoids.
Usage of Fang Wu Zhi: Decoct the medicine in water and remove the residue. Use this potion to fumigate the affected area or take a sitz bath. Fume and wash once or twice a day.
Function: It can treat internal and external mixed hemorrhoids.
Recipe 1?
Ingredients: 15 grams of catechu, 7.5 grams of roasted light powder, 10 grams of dragon bone, and 5 grams of borneol.
Preparation and usage: Grind the medicine *** into fine powder, then add appropriate amount of water to make a paste and apply it on the affected area.
Function: It can treat patients who have suffered from hemorrhoids for a short time and have no anal fistula.
Recipe 2?
Ingredients: 30 grams of calcined snails, 30 grams of calcined salted olive pits, 1.5 grams of borneol.
Preparation and usage: Grind the medicine *** into fine powder, mix it with sesame oil and apply it on the affected area.
Recipe 1?
Ingredients: several large field snails, three grams of borneol borneol.
Preparation and usage: Wash the snails, use a knife to open the snail cover, add an appropriate amount of borneol, and use the tip of the knife to pound the snail meat and borneol a few times. After being left for a while, the snail meat will turn into liquid. Apply this liquid to the affected area.
Recipe 2?
Ingredients: 1 gram of red arsenic (fire-forged), 3 grams of black plum (fire-forged), 3 grams of dried alum, 2 grams of cinnabar, 2 grams of bezoar, borneol One gram.
Preparation and usage: Grind the medicine into fine powder and put it in a sealed bottle for later use. When using, take out the powdered medicine and add appropriate amount of water to make a paste and apply it on the affected area. Apply once or twice a day. The patient can recover after applying it for three to four days. This prescription is poisonous, so be careful not to swallow it accidentally. After applying the medicine, if the affected area bleeds yellow water and feels painful, do not apply it again.
Recipe 3?
Ingredients: One live river mussel, 0.5 grams of coptis powder, and a small amount of borneol.
Preparation and usage: Pry open the mussels, mix in coptis powder and borneol, and put them into a bowl. After the mussel water flows out, dip chicken feathers in the liquid and apply it to the affected area. Can be applied multiple times a day. This method is more suitable for treating patients whose hemorrhoid swelling and pain tend to be of the damp-heat accumulation type.
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