Herbal Remedies for Molluscum Contagiosum

Infectious molluscum contagiosum is equivalent to the category of Chinese medicine “warts”, according to the typing and identification of the internal use of Chinese medicine can be used to cure wart prescription, amaranth, peach four soup, etc., and external use can be used to crow gall seed powder, thousand gold powder and so on. 1. Internal treatment: for the treatment of warts and flat wart, warts can be divided into wind-heat and blood dryness, damp-heat and blood stasis; flat wart can be divided into wind-heat and heat knot evidence, heat and stasis mutual knot evidence. Wart, wind-heat and blood dryness, symptomatic wart nodules such as beans, different sizes, hard and rough, yellow or red color, above the skin, prescription to the wart formula plus reduction of the main; damp-heat and blood stasis, symptomatic wart nodules loose, different sizes, gray or brown color, above the skin, prescription to the amaranthine combination of the main addition and subtraction of the main. Bian wart, wind-heat syndrome, symptoms see a large number, rash light red, or not itch, or slightly itchy, short duration of the disease, dry mouth but do not want to drink water, the formula to the amaranthine amaranth combination with the main; heat and blood stasis mutual conjunction of the syndrome, the symptoms see the rash is hard, the duration of the disease is longer, the size of the rash is not itchy, no pain, the color of the dark red or yellowish-brown, the formula selection of the peach red four things soup with the addition of subtractions. In addition, the rat’s breast, palmoplantar warts, filiform warts, and warts, flat wart lesions are small, do not need to take internal treatment. 2. external treatment method: all kinds of warts can be used to choose the plate blue root, wood, amaranth, bitter ginseng, coix seed, incense, white moss skin and other traditional Chinese medicine decoction soup while hot wash the affected area, can make part of the rash off. Warts, flat wart, can be crushed and applied to the affected area, or with the oil of the opium seed kernel external coating of the affected area, for the treatment of scattered warts, to prevent damage to the normal skin; metatarsal warts, can be used to Qianjin San topical external application. The specific treatment of drugs should be carried out under the guidance of the Chinese medicine practitioner, not blindly use drugs.