At the suppurative stage, the induration is increased in size and softened to form an abscess with fluctuation, the skin is bright red in color and tender, and the patient may suffer from fever, chills, dryness in the mouth and constipation;
At the rupture stage, the abscess discharges pus and finally heals, the swelling and pain are relieved, the body temperature returns to normal but the patient is very weak.
This disease corresponds to acute pyogenic mastitis in Western medicine.
Recipe 1: One orange and one spoonful of yellow wine.
Administration: The juice of the orange mixed with warm yellow wine is drunk twice a day.
Indication: This recipe is used to treat mastiffs at the early stage, with red and swollen induration.
Recipe 2: Dried lily flower 25 g and one trotter.
Administration: The trotter boiled in water with the dried lily flower to cook a soup without condiments for oral intake with meal, once a day.
Indication: This soup is used to treat mastiffs at the early stage, with local redness, swelling, hotness and pain.
Recipe 3: Pugongying (dandelion) 50 g, Zihuadiding (violet)
20 g, Fengfang (hornets' nest) 10 g and an adequate amount of sugar.
Administration: A decoction of the above herbs is drunk once a day for 7 days.
Indication: This recipe is used to treat mastiffs at the suppurative stage.
Recipe 4: Pugongying (Dandelion) 50 g and rice 50-100 g.
Administration: The Pugongying is cut into pieces, and pounded to prepare a juice for cooking a gruel with rice. It is taken orally 3 times a day for 5 days as a therapeutic course.
Indication: This gruel is used to treat mastitis at the rupture stage with fever not completely subsided.
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