Description
Yi Sao Guang (Powder for Sweeping Away), from Experience Gained in Treating External Sores (Yang Ke Xin De Ji).
Actions: Dry dampness and resolve toxins, kill worms, and relieve itching. Indicated for the treatment of white bald-scalp sore (tinea alba), scabies, and seborrhea dermatitis due to pathogenic dampness immersion, with more evident itch of skin, moist local area, even fluid effusion, and mild pain
Indications: Its use is prohibited in patients with damaged skin
Source: Xi S, Gong Y. Essentials of Chinese Materia Medica and Medical Formulas: New Century Traditional Chinese Medicine. Academic Press/Elsevier, 2017, pp. 861–873.
Preparation
Grind the ingredients into fine powder, add lard stearin 1120 g and melt, mix evenly and make into pills as size of longan, store in ceramic bottle, and apply it on the sores
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