The mumps is an acute respiratory infection caused by the mumps virus, which is more prevalent in spring. The cactus is cold and bitter, and has the function of clearing heat and detoxifying the blood, eliminating swelling and activating blood, which is a good medicine for mumps. This is a few of the experimental formula as follows: 1, 12 grams of cactus, 10 grams of alum, 9 grams of ice chips, pounded and blended and applied to the parotid gland or submandibular gland, sublingual gland enlargement, external clean gauze, fixed with adhesive tape, twice a day. 2.200g of fresh cactus, 50g of green daisy, 100g of raw rhubarb and adzuki bean, 5g of ice chips, and the right amount of rice vinegar. Firstly, crush raw rhubarb, adzuki bean and ice chips into fine powder and sieve them, then mix them into Qing Dai, then pound fresh cactus into paste, mix it with the above medicine and put it into appropriate amount of rice vinegar. According to the size of the swollen parotid gland, evenly apply a layer of drugs, cover with gauze, fixed with bandages, and change the medicine every 3 hours. 3, fresh cactus appropriate amount, make clay and put on the parotid gland, 2-3 hours each time, 2-3 times a day, and use for a week. The gauze wrapped with cactus should always be in a moist state. 4.Fresh cactus with a little gypsum pounding, external application of the affected area, even 3 to 5 days. 5, cactus with salt pounded externally on the affected area, and with 10 grams each of honeysuckle and forsythia, 9 grams each of scutellaria baicalensis, bupleurum, dacquoise leaf, orris, summer grass, seven-leaf flower, 6 grams each of red peony and 3 grams of licorice. Decocted in clear water and taken internally, one dose daily. 7, take fresh cactus 1 to 2 pieces, baked on an electric stove, remove the needles, add 2 to 3 grams of alum into the mortar and pound to make a paste. Clean the skin of both cheeks with warm water, apply the paste of cactus evenly on the sterile gauze block, the diameter of the coating should be larger than the swollen parotid gland, cover the swollen parotid gland with the sterile gauze coated with Chinese medicine and fix it with adhesive tape. For those who have swollen submandibular glands, the external dressing area should be expanded to the submandibular; for those who have swollen parotid glands on one side, the external dressing should be given to both sides at the same time, and the dressing should be changed 3 to 4 times a day, and the number of external dressings can be increased according to the condition until the parotid glands return to normal. 8.Take two pieces of cactus and pound them, add 20 grams of earth rhubarb powder and mix them together, apply them to the affected area, the area should exceed the edge of the redness and swelling, apply gauze and fix it with adhesive tape, change the medicine once a day, the course of treatment is 3 days.