(1) It is advisable to clear away heat and toxins, bring about qi and activate the blood circulation and promote the secretion of milk at the early stage of the acute mastitis. The prescriptions below can be chosen.
1) Take 60g of Semen Cassiae (Juemingzi)">Semen Cassiae (Juemingzi) to decoct in water for drinking; to be taken twice daily for 3 days continuously.
2) Take 6g of antler powder and take it twice a day with the yellow wine.
3)Take 60g of dandelion, 30g of Philippine violet herb and 30g of flos Chrysanthemi indici to decoct in water for drinking; to be taken twice a day.
4) Take 30g of honeycomb and 10g of raw liquorice to decoct in water for drinking; to be taken twice a day.
(2) It is advisable to clear away heat and toxins and remove the pus at the forming of pus stage of the acute mastitis. The prescriptions below can be chosen.
1) Ingredients: Fructus Trichosanthis 15g, fructus arctii 20g, radices Trichosanthis 15g, raw Cape Jasmine Fruit 10g, honeysuckle 30g, Radix Scutellariae (Huangqin) 15g, spina gleditsiae 10g, dried tangerine peel 12g, Fructus Forsythiae (Lianqiao) 15g, Radix Glycyrrhizae (Gancao) 10g.
Decoct all the ingredients in water for drinking; to be taken twice a day.
2) Ingredients: Honeysuckle 30g, semen citri reticulatae 15g, lichee kernel 15g, dandelion 30g, gelatinum cornus cervis 15g, fructus forsythiae 15g, spina gleditsiae 12g, Ligusticum wallichii 12g.
Decoct all the ingredients in water for drinking; to be taken twice a day.
(3) It is advisable to clear away heat and toxins and regulate qi-blood at the diabrosis stage of the acute mastitis. The prescriptions below can be chosen.
1) Ingredients: Raw Radix Astragali (Huangqi) 30g, Angelica Sinensis 15g, honeysuckle 30g, Fructus Forsythiae (Lianqiao) 15g, fructus arctii 15g, pangolin 10g, spina gleditsiae 10g, peony 12g.
Decoct all the ingredients in water for drinking; to be taken twice a day.
(4) Fresh Orange Juice and Rice Wine
Take half a bowel of fresh orange juice and 1-2 spoons of rice wine and mix them up; to be taken twice a day. It is applicable to the early stage of the acute mastitis, unsmooth secretion of milk in breast-feeding, red and swelling in the breast, hardness and pain in the breasts, etc.
(5) Soak 10g of polygala root into 10ml of white wine for 20 minutes; then fire the wine and drink the left liquid when the fire is put out; the symptoms can be relieved after four hours for the patients with light condition and the body temperature will decrease; for the patients with severe conditions, the symptoms can be relieved after six hours; the disease can be cured after one dose is taken.
(6) Ingredients: 3 walnuts, dogtooth violet 5g and moderate yellow wine.
Process: pound the walnuts into a paste and grind the dogtooth violet into powder; then mix them up; to be taken twice with the yellow wine a day. It is helpful to tonify qi, reduce phlegm, clear away heat and toxins and prevent from the tumour; it is applicable to the mastitis.
