Herbs with the efficacy of dispersing knots and softening hardness include Xia Gu Cao, acute seeds, oysters, etc., which should be standardized in accordance with the doctor’s prescription.
1. Xia Gu Cao: it has the effect of clearing heat and fire, brightening the eyes, dispersing knots and subduing swelling. It is mainly used for treating eye redness and swelling, headache and dizziness, night pain of eyeballs, scrofula (mainly refers to cervical lymph node tuberculosis), gall tumors (equivalent to thyroid tumors), and canker sores (red, swollen and painful breasts with unsmooth discharge of breast milk and eventual suppurative disease) swelling and pain. Caution should be exercised if the spleen and stomach are weak.
2. Acute Seed: It has the effects of promoting blood stasis and lowering qi, softening and dispersing hard lumps. It is used for treating menstrual cramps, dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, post-partum dyspareunia (the placenta not being able to be delivered after a long period of time after the fetus has been delivered), post-partum stagnant blood and lumps (masses). Pregnant women should be cautious.
3. Oyster: It has the effects of astringent and astringent, softening and dispersing. It is used in the treatment of restlessness of heart and mind, palpitation and insomnia, dizziness, phlegm nuclei (lumps swollen up like nuclei under the skin), gall tumors, scrofula, obstruction in the abdomen (visible or invisible lumps appearing in the abdomen, with a feeling of distension and pain), spontaneous sweating (sweating involuntarily during the daytime, and sweating aggravated with a little movement), etc. It is not recommended for people with deficiency of spleen, essence and smoothness. It is contraindicated for those with spleen deficiency and essence slippage.
If medication is needed, it should be diagnosed by a doctor and regulated according to the doctor’s prescription.