Acute lymphadenitis is the name of the disease in Western medicine, in Chinese medicine belongs to the category of “cervical carbuncle”, the treatment of cervical carbuncle of traditional Chinese medicine, such as honeysuckle, forsythia, most of them are heat-clearing and detoxifying medicines.
Cervical carbuncle is also known as phlegm poison, mostly due to wind temperature and phlegm heat, embedded in the neck, manifested as neck lumps, swelling, burning, pain with fever, fear of cold, etc. The treatment is to clear away heat and detoxify the toxin, and then to remove the toxin. The treatment is based on clearing heat and removing toxins and resolving phlegm.
1. Honeysuckle is a heat-clearing medicine with the effects of clearing heat and removing toxins and evacuating wind-heat. It is not suitable for people with cold spleen and stomach, Qi deficiency and sores and pus clearing.
Honeysuckle can be used for carbuncle, furuncle, laryngeal paralysis (pharyngeal redness, swelling and pain, or dryness, foreign body sensation, or pharyngeal itching, discomfort, dysphagia), dengtoxin (acute infectious disease, the skin is red like paint), pyrexia blood dysentery (dysentery caused by feeling the heat, see blood in the stools), wind-heat colds, fever, fever of warm diseases.
2. Forsythia has the efficacy of clearing away heat and removing toxins, subduing swelling and dispersing knots, evacuating wind-heat, and treating carbuncle and gangrene (a kind of poisonous sores, acute suppurative disease occurring on the surface of the body, limbs, and viscera), scrofula (mainly refers to tuberculosis of cervical lymph nodes), and mammary carbuncle (a suppurative disease that is caused by redness, swelling and pain in the breasts and the unsmooth discharge of breast milk).
Forsythia can also be used for dengtoxin, wind-heat colds, the first signs of a warm disease, warmth and heat entering the camp, high fever and thirst, fainting and spotting, and feverish gonorrhea (burning and stinging pains evident in urination, accompanied by frequent urination and urgency, and discomfort from traction in the lower abdomen) and astringent pains. It is not suitable for people with cold spleen and stomach, Qi deficiency and sores with pus clearing.
In case of discomfort, it is recommended to use Chinese medicine under the guidance of a medical professional.