Alias: Tung oil (Compendium).

Taste: sweet and pungent, cold, poisonous.

Part of medicine: the oil extracted from the seeds of tung oil, family Euphorbiaceae.

Usage and dosage of tung oil

Externally: rubbing, toning or probing and vomiting.

Effects and Indications

Functions: To detect and vomit wind-phlegm.

Indications: external treatment of scabies, polycarbonate sores, soup and fire injuries, frostbite and cracks.

Compatibility of tung oil

①Polycarbonates for the treatment of blood wind sores: a Hu powder (calcined, research), tung oil adjusted for the paper paste paste. The second ship Chen tung oil lime (calcined), human hair (mixed with tung oil sizzling dry). For the end, still mixing tung oil as a paste, coated paper, puncture holes to paste. ("Simple single recipe")

② treatment of chronic ulcers: tung oil, fresh mulberry white skin appropriate. Pound, apply to the wound, dry and then change, until healed. ("Herbal Medicine Herbal Compendium of simple prescription")

③ treatment of foot belly wind sores such as mange: tung oil, human milk and other points. Sweep several times. ("The Lake Collection of Simplified Formula")

④, the treatment of drunkenness and red nose: Tung oil into the yellow Dan, andrographis compressed. ("Picking Yuan Fang")

⑤ Treatment of frostbite and cracks: a bowl of tung oil, a handful of hair. Boil the bottle, wash with warm water to make it soft and apply it. ("Emergency formula")

⑥ solution to arsenic poisoning: tung oil three liters of irrigation, spit that is poisoned. (Hua Tuo critical illness prescription)

(7) treatment of fire burns: tung oil, lime. The first lime churning water clarification, take the water, into the tung oil a few drops, urgently stirred with a bamboo branch, half a time from the white gelatinous, compress the affected area, clear and fast exceptionally. ("Science of Traditional Chinese Medicine" (4): 63, 1936)

⑧ treatment of finger boils: use gauze soaked in tung oil package affected area; or the affected finger immersed in tung oil. (Guizhou Herbal Medicine)

Clinical application of tung oil

①Treatment of surgical inflammation

Apply tung oil and gypsum powder to the affected area. If the medicine is used in time, it has the effect of promoting the absorption and subsidence or limitation of acute purulent inflammation. According to 65 cases of acute inflammation of various soft tissues, 46 cases of inflammation completely disappeared after 1 to 10 days of medication, 6 cases of inflammation is limited, the symptoms improved; 13 cases of abscess shrinkage, self-broken or small incision and drainage and cured. Used in acute appendicitis 11 cases, in 3 ~ 14 days all cured; appendiceal abscess 17 cases, except for 1 case of formation of diffuse peritonitis and death, the rest were cured in 7 ~ 15 days; 13 cases of chronic pelvic adnexitis, were cured in 3 ~ 6 days; other cases, such as subphrenic abscess, abdominal abscess, acute cholecystitis, confined peritonitis, tonsillar abscess, dentoalveolar abscess and so on, the use of the drug also has good results. In the course of treatment, other therapies, such as the application of antimicrobial agents, fluid transfusion, blood transfusion, etc., must be combined as required by the condition. For mature abscesses or those that have been incised and drained, and acute perforated appendicitis, ulcerated appendiceal abscess or diffuse peritonitis caused by other reasons, surgery or other methods of treatment should be taken in time. Preparation and usage: Mix 30-40 ml of tung oil with 100 g of raw gypsum powder, mix well and apply on gauze or oil paper, and apply externally on the affected area. For abdominal inflammation, it is applied on the anterior abdominal wall of the lesion; for inflammation of the pelvic accessory organs, it is applied on the lower abdomen, or the vaginal sitting method is used; for tonsillitis and dentoalveolar abscess, it is applied on the lower jaw. The width of the dressing must exceed the range of inflammatory infiltration. According to the severity of the disease 1 to 3 times a day to change the medicine

② treatment of burns

strive to burn within 10 minutes after the burn, the burned limbs immersed in tung oil barrel, immersion time to the patient's affected limbs away from the oil barrel after the disappearance of the pain or only a slight burning sensation until. After soaking with sterilized gauze dipped in raw tung oil on the affected area, replaced once a day, until the wound is dry. Trial treatment of 9 cases, after soaking the burn around the redness and swelling significantly reduced, blistering is also reduced. Third-degree burns scabs dry and fall off to heal themselves. There was no infection, and the healed scar was soft and did not cause dysfunction.

③ Treatment of common warts

First, use a sewing needle or knife to gently scrape the surface of the warts, followed by drops of oleander fruit gum juice on the wart surface, listen to the natural drying of scabs, fall off by themselves. If the affected area after the scab, there are still part of the wart tissue has not yet fallen off, and then drop the medicine 1 to 2 times, in order to heal to the extent. The actual warts will not be able to be removed by the end of the day, but they will be able to be removed by the end of the year. The treatment of eight cases, in addition to one case of multiple drops of medicine three times not effective, the remaining seven cases of simple by drops of medicine 1 to 3 times are off, follow-up half a year did not see a recurrence.