Proprietary Chinese medicines for eliminating knots and dispersing swelling include Xia Gu Cao Capsule and Ten Flavors Xiang Deer Capsule.
Swellings and nodules are symptoms on the body surface caused by various pathogenic factors, such as stagnation of qi and blood, and blockage of meridians and channels. The large ones are lumps and the small ones are nodules.
Xia Gu Cao Capsules is composed of Xia Gu Cao, which has the efficacy of clearing fire and brightening eyes, dispersing knots and eliminating swelling. It is often used in the treatment of headache and dizziness, scrofula (nuclei of varying sizes appearing between the flesh of the neck and stringing each other together), gall tumors (nodular lumps on both sides of the throat nodes in the front of the neck) and so on. The contraindications of the drug is not clear, should follow the doctor’s instructions for medication.
Ten flavors of fragrant deer capsule prescription composition for Xiang Fu, Allium sativum, antlers off the disk, Zhe Beimu, etc., the above medicines together, has the liver detoxification, qi and phlegm, soft firmness and dispersal of knots (soften and dissipate the hard lumps) effect.
It is often used in the treatment of breast lumps with swelling and pain or tingling, with symptoms aggravated before menstruation and relieved after menstruation, accompanied by chest tightness and discomfort, and swelling and pain in the chest and hypochondriacs. It is contraindicated for pregnant and lactating women.
The drug should be used under medical supervision.