Ointment for Mastitis，*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Preparations* (Tianjin Formula).，For women with breast cancer, breast swelling and pain, breast tenderness upon touch, hardened breasts with nodules, initial redness and swelling accompanied by unbearable pain, and scrofula or tuberculosis.
Ointment for Mastitis
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Formulas Name : Ointment for Mastitis
Chinese Name : 结乳膏
Drug Formulation
15 jin of sesame oil, 90 liang of cinnabar.
Source
*National Collection of Prescriptions for Traditional Chinese Medicinal Preparations* (Tianjin Formula).
Processing
Refine the sesame oil until a drop forms a bead; add the cinnabar and stir until it forms a paste. For each plaster, mix 2 jin of the oil with 5 qian each of Chinese chive juice, verdigris powder, dragon’s blood powder, frankincense powder, and myrrh powder, 3 qian of white arsenic powder, and 6 fen of musk; stir well. Each plaster should weigh 1 qian of pure oil.
Benefits
For women with breast cancer, breast swelling and pain, breast tenderness upon touch, hardened breasts with nodules, initial redness and swelling accompanied by unbearable pain, and scrofula or tuberculosis.
Instructions for Use
Apply to the affected area.
Note
Do not apply if the lesion has already ruptured.
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Ointment for Mastitis,For women with breast cancer, breast swelling and pain, breast tenderness upon touch, hardened breasts with nodules, initial redness and swelling accompanied by unbearable pain, and scrofula or tuberculosis.