Difference between Patpodan and Pientzehuang

The difference between Eight Treasures Dan and Pientzehuang is mainly manifested in drug composition, efficacy, indications and so on. For example, Eight Treasures Dan has the efficacy of clearing dampness and heat, activating blood circulation and detoxification, removing yellow and relieving pain; Pientzehuang has the efficacy of clearing heat and detoxification (removing heat and toxicity in the body), cooling blood circulation and removing blood stasis, eliminating swelling and relieving pain (eliminating swelling and pain). Eight Treasures Dan, composed of ox-huang, snake gall, antelope horn and pearl. It is used for fever, jaundice, yellow-red urine, nausea and vomiting, nausea and vomiting, nausea (no appetite, less food), dystocia (pain in the area of coxa and ribs), abdominal distension, yellowish greasy tongue coating or thick, greasy, dry and white tongue coating, or burning and stinging pain in the urethra and abdominal distension caused by the infiltration of dampness-heat. Pregnant women should not take it. Pientzehuang, composed of cowhuang, musk, panax pseudoginseng and snake gall. It is used in acute and chronic viral hepatitis caused by heat poison and blood stasis, carbuncle and gangrene (a kind of poisonous sore, acute suppurative disease occurring on the body surface, limbs and internal organs), furuncle (a kind of sore occurring on the limbs or face, with small shape and deep root base, as hard as nails), anonymous swollenness and venom, bruises and all kinds of inflammatory diseases. Pregnant women should not take. The specific use of the two should follow the doctor’s instructions, not unauthorized use of drugs.