Swollen red sores are not always treated as yang heat
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Title
Swollen red sores are not always treated as yang heat
Description
Lantern (2017), Que Yue-Yun
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Abstract
External medicine conditions such as abscesses, carbuncles, rooted sores and boils are generally divided into two broad categories of yin and yang types. Generally, yang types are red, swollen, hot and painful with a pathology involving fire, heat or epidemic toxin along with obstruction, accumulation and clumping; the treatment therefore is most often clearing heat and resolving toxins using cold or cooling materials. However, clinical experience shows that this type of treatment is not inevitably successful, and a few cases of hot red swollen sores should in fact be approached as a cold yin type in regards to treatment, and the prohibitions against warming and tonifying do not in fact apply to these situations. I append some case histories extracted from ancient books and modern journals as evidence for this viewpoint.
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Language
English
Date
volume
14
issue
3
page start
9
page end
13
Alternative Title
Lantern
issn
1449-2717