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Buttock Boil

Buttock Boil

Patient:,
Diagnosis:Buttock Boil

1Condition & History

Chief Complaint: Buttock Boil

Patient had an egg-sized boil on the buttock, hard, red, swollen, and extremely painful.

TCM Signs (Four Examinations)

    2Diagnosis & Treatment

    Diagnosis: Buttock Boil

    Treatment Principle: Promote blood circulation, remove blood stasis, reduce swelling and relieve pain

    Prescribed Method

    External application of Yizheng Plaster

    Duration: 2天

    3Outcome & Analysis

    After using the specially formulated boil plaster, pain reduced on day 2, no discomfort by day 3. After 1 week, pus drained out. After 2 weeks, the hard lump completely disappeared, and the boil had shrunk to a rice-grain-sized red dot.

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    Correspondent: Wu Cuilan, Date: December 19, 2009, Case Number: Boil 0002
    — Physician's Note