There is no evidence-based medical evidence to prove the efficacy of external application of raw dihuang and mullein to the mammary glands, but the ancient book “Surgery Zhengzong” recorded that it can treat breast carbuncle.
Raw dihuang is sweet in flavor and cold in nature, and enters the heart, liver, kidney and small intestine meridians. It has the efficacy of nourishing yin and generating fluids, clearing heat and cooling the blood, and is mainly used for fever with macular rash, body heat and tongue redness, or fever with injury to yin, low fever that does not subside, red tongue, dry mouth, dry lips, and blood heat paranoia.
Wood flavor is pungent, bitter, warm in nature, and belongs to the spleen, stomach, large intestine, San Jiao and gallbladder meridians. It has the efficacy of promoting qi, relieving pain, strengthening the spleen and eliminating food, and is mainly used for the treatment of chest and epigastric distension and pain, diarrhea and dysentery, accumulation of food without elimination, not thinking of food and drink and other diseases.
The two together that is the ancient book “Surgery Zhen Zong” recorded in the treatment of breast carbuncle, breast pain prescription medicine wood incense cake formula, has the effect of swelling and pain, external hot compresses to treat all the stagnation of qi swollen into the nucleus or pain or flash contusion.
Patients who experience discomfort in the breast, should go to the hospital in a timely manner, under the guidance of a professional physician treatment, do not self-medication, so as not to delay the condition.