HERB FORMULAS

BREAST CANCER #17

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HERBS AND ACTIONS

Pharmaceutical Latin
Pin Yin
Dosage
Actions
Fr. Trichosanthis Gua Lou 15g Transforms Hot Phlegm, regulates Qi, reduces abscesses, dissipates nodules and eliminates pus.
With Pu Gong Ying and Jin Yin Hua, for breast carbuncles.
Prepared Squama Manitis Shan Jia Zhu 10g Invigorates the Blood, dispels Blood Stasis, promotes lactation, reduces swelling, promotes the discharge of pus and inhibits the growth of cancer cells.
With Huang Qi, for insufficient lactation.
With Pu Gong Ying for inflammatory lesions of the skin that have not yet pustulated.
With Bai Zhi, Zi Hua Di Ding and Pu Gong Ying, for sores without pus.
Hb. Taraxaci Pu Gong Ying 15g Reduces abscesses, dissipates nodules, clears the Liver, clears Heat, relieves Fire toxicity, promotes lactation, clears Heat in the Blood and inhibits the growth of cancer cells.
With Xia Ku Cao, for early-stage breast abscesses and subcutaneous Phlegm nodules.
With Zi Hua Di Ding, for all hot, painful, hard, and deep-rooted boils.
Hb. Violae Zi Hua Di Ding 115g Clears Heat, relieves Fire toxicity and clears hot sores.
Spica Prunellae Xia Ku Cao 15g Clears Liver Fire, Clears Hot Phlegm, dissipates nodules and inhibits the growth of cancer cells.
Flos Lonicerae Jin Yin Hua 30g Clears Heat, resolves Fire toxicity and inhibits the growth of cancer cells.
With Pu Gong Yin and Zi Hua Di Ding, for sores, lesions carbuncles, ulceration of the skin and furuncles.
With Gan Cao, for toxic swellings and sores.
Rx. Angelicae Sinensis Dang Gui 12g Tonifies, invigorates and harmonizes the Blood, disperses Cold, reduces swelling, expels pus, generates flesh and alleviates pain.
With Jin Yin Hua, reduces obstruction and toxicity for swollen, painful sores and necrosis of surrounding tissue.
With Huang Qi, Gan Cao, Jin Yin Hua and Bai Zhi, for slow-healing sores due to Qi and Blood Deficiency.
With Jin Yin Hua, Chi Shao, Shan Jia Zhu and Tian Hua Fen, for redness, swelling and burning toxic sores.
Rx. Astragali Huang Qi 30g Tonifies Qi and Blood, promotes the discharge of pus, generates flesh, expels toxins, relieves numbness and pain and inhibits the growth of cancer cells.
With Dang Gui, for Qi and Blood Deficiency with chronic non-healing sores, numbness, painful obstruction and paresthesias.
With Dang Gui and Rou Gui, for flat sores that do not pustulate or ulcers that do not heal.
Rx. Trichosanthis Tian Hua Fen 15g Drains Heat, generates Fluids, transforms Phlegm, Relieves toxicity, expels pus, reduces swelling and inhibits the growth of cancer cells.
Rx. Angelicae Dahuricae Bai Zhi 12g Expels Wind, eliminates Dampness, dispels Cold, reduces swelling, eliminates toxins, expels pus and alleviates pain.
With Jie Geng, for ulcerated boils when pus has not been discharged.
With Huang Qi, for ulcerated abscesses with insufficient drainage or which drain a clear thin discharge.
With Jin Yin Hua and Dang Gui, for early-stage sores and carbuncles.
With Jin Yin Hua, Shan Jia Zhu, and Tian Hua Fen, for dermatological disorders with abscesses and swelling.
Rx. Platycodi Jie Geng 10g Opens the Lungs, spreads Lung Qi and expels pus and Phlegm.
With Gan Cao, for Lung abscess with expectoration of pus and pain in the chest and flanks.
With Yi Yi Ren and Gan Cao, for Lung abscess with chest pain, fever, cough with foul-smelling, yellow, sticky sputum.
Rx. Paeoniae Rubra Chi Shao 10g Invigorates the Blood, dispels Blood Stasis, relieves pain, clears Heat, cools the Blood, clears Liver Fire, reduces swelling from sores and abscesses
Bul. Allii Xie Bai 10g Unblocks Yang Qi, disperses turbid Phlegm and cold Phlegm, disperses hardenings, alleviates pain and inhibits the growth of cancer cells.
With Gua Lou, for Chest Bi with profuse Phlegm.
Sm. Coicis Yi Yi Ren 15g Strengthens the Spleen, resolves Dampness, clears Heat, expels pus, relieves pain and inhibits the growth of cancer cells.
Sargassum Hai Zao 15g Reduces Phlegm, softens areas of hardness and inhibits the growth of cancer cells.
With Gan Cao, for goiter and scrofula.
Rx. Polygalae Yuan Zhi 10g Expels Phlegm, reduces abscesses and dissipates swellings.
Cx. Cinnamomi Rou Gui 3g Disperses deep Cold, warms the channels, unblocks the channels and vessels and alleviates pain.
Wit Dang Gui and Huang Qi, for Yin-type boils due to Qi and Blood Deficiency especially those that form but do not ulcerate.
Rx. Glycyrrhizae Gan Cao 3g Tonifies the Spleen, augments Qi, clears Heat, relieves Fire toxicity, inhibits the growth of cancer cells, moderates and harmonizes the harsh properties of other herbs and guides the herbs to all twelve channels.
With Pu Gong Ying, for abscesses or other toxic swellings.
With Jin Yin Hua and Pu Gong Ying, for Yang sores marked by redness, swelling and pain.

FORMULA ACTIONS

  • Clears the Liver
  • Drains Fire
  • Eliminates Stagnation
  • Resolves Phlegm
  • Clear Toxic Heat
  • Regulates Qi
  • Reduces abscesses
  • Dissipates nodules
  • Invigorates the Blood
  • Dispels Stasis
  • Inhibits the growth of cancer cells

SYNDROMES

  • Liver Fire with Toxic Phlegm-Heat

CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS

  • Large breast lump like a heap, adhering to the skin
  • Inverted nipple
  • Orange-skin effect
  • Irritability
  • Dry mouth
  • Bitter taste
  • Headache
  • Red face
  • Cough with sticky, yellow, difficult to expectorate sputum
  • Rapid breathing with a harsh voice
  • Restless fever
  • Sore throat
  • Constipation
  • Dry stools
  • Mania
  • Shortness of breath
  • Dyspnea
  • Nausea
  • Vomiting
  • Chest and/or epigastric fullness
  • Pain in the ribs
  • T: Scarlet
  • C: Yellow or Yellow and greasy or Yellow and smooth
  • P: Wiry and rapid or Rapid and smooth or Slippery and rapid

TREATS

CONTRAINDICATIONS AND HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

CONTRAINDICATIONS
HERB/DRUG INTERACTIONS

NOTES

MODIFICATIONS

For lymphadenectasis:
For diabrotic mammary carcinoma:
+ More Hb. Taraxaci Pu Gong Ying + 30g Rx. Astragali Huang Qi
+ More Sargassum Hai Zao + 10g Fr. Aurantii Immaturus Zhi Shi
+ 20g Concha Ostreae Mu Li
+ 15g Rx. Scrophulariae Yuan Zhi + 10g Per. Citri Reticulatae Viride Qing Pi
For Excess conditions:
+ 10g Fr. Aurantii Immaturus Zhi Shi
For Cold conditions:
+ 6g Cx. Cinnamomi Rou Gui
+ 10g Per. Citri Reticulatae Viride Qing Pi
For chills and fever with a rapid pulse:
+ 10g Rx. Scutellariae Huang Qin
    + 10g Rx. Bupleuri Chai Hu
    + 6g Rz. Coptidis Huang Lian
    + 10g Rx. Puerariae Ge Gen