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Diseases of the Breast



Western Tradition

To Firm the Breast

1. Ivy leaf, boiled in Vinegar and applied, was said to sagging breasts to help them become firm and round.
2. ‘A Garland made of Ivy berries, laid to the breasts of Women that hang flagging, gathers them up together decently, and makes them round; the like will Ivy leaves do, if they be beaten, and applied to them’. (Culpeper)
3. Yarrow was "used to firm Sagging Breasts ‘causing them to grow less and hard [firm]",
4. Beat Plantain leaf to a mash, mix with well beaten egg whites to form a Cataplasm.
5. "If a woman anoint often her Dugs or Paps [Breasts] with the juice of Chicory, it will make them little, round and hard, or if they be hanging or baggy, it will draw them together, whereby they shall seem as the dugs [breasts] of a Maid". (Mizald)
6. Dip a cloth in the distilled water of Dodder and apply often.
7. Boil Poppies in water; dip a cloth in and apply.
8. Long Pepper boiled in Sesame Oil is applied as a pad over the breast. It is said to be very effective for sagging breasts, lifting them, and making them firmer.
9. "Some physicians state that the blood of bat retains the shape of the breast but this is far from truth. According to some other physicians one qirii{ (250 mg) of pure, fresh and hot blood obtained from a kid is taken with vinegar for 3 days for the same purpose".

CURRANT WINE
    Currants                1 handful
Boil them in wine; then distill. This water is to be massaged onto the breasts every day for 8 days, once per year.


To increase Breast Size

1. Cumin has developed a reputation to increase Breast size
2. Fennel seed
3. Agnus Castus seeds increases Breast tissue
4. Roasted Fenugreek seeds were traditionally eaten by women in Harems to give them a more shapely body, and increase Breast size.


Breast Lumps from Obstructed Milk

Topical applications for Swellings from corrupt Milk:
1. Linseed meal, Lentil meal, mixed with Oil of Rose and Saffron
2. Marrubium, Ebulus, Poppy leaf, Wormwood, Rue, Dodder, apply warm
3. Mix Egg and Oil of Rose
4. Mix powdered Egg shell, boiled Egg Yolk, Saffron and Oil of Roses and apply.
5. Tragacanth, Gum Arabic, Egg White and Oil of Violets
6. Houseleek juice, Black Nightshade juice, egg white, oil of Rose
7. Agrimony, Vervain, Fennel boiled in wine and applied.
8. Ointment of Marshmallow (Dialthea)
9. Dandelion, Plantain, Sage chopped and boiled in wine and applied. (Natura exenterata, Philiatros, 1655)


Breast Pain:

1. Mix Sulphur and Vinegar and apply.
2. Mix Barley meal, Mustard seed powder and Vinegar and apply.


Breast, Hardness of, Fibroids, Tumors

1. Earth and Vinegar applied as a plaster
2. Bean beaten with Egg white and applied
3. Lentils infused in vinegar and applied
4. Bread crumbs mixed with Celery juice and applied.
5. Mallow stamped with oil, made hot, and applied
6. Rue juice, Wheat flour, Honey, Olive oil, applied
7. Henbane seed stamped in wine and applied
8. Sulphur mixed with wine and applied
9. Goat dung mixed with Vinegar and Bran and applied
10. Mice dung mixed with water and applied

Decoction for Boils and Abscess
Decoction for Cancer (Fuller)
Decoction of Dodder of Thyme (Rhasis)
Syrup of Dodder of Thyme (Mesue)
Syrup of Fumitory Lesser (Mesue)
Syrup to Purge all Humors of Frankfurt
Hiera Pachii
Powder of Gum Lacca Lesser (Dialacca Minor) (Mesue)
Pills of Rhubarb (Mesue)
Pills of Rhubarb (Greater) (Pil. de Raved Sceni) (Mesue)
Indian Pills (Mesue)
Triphera Persica (Mesue)

Oil of Bitter Almonds
Oil of Orris
Plaster of Ammoniacum
Plaster of Bayberries (Mesue)
Plaster of Garlic
Plaster of 4 Ingredients
Plaster of Meliot
Plaster of Saffron of Vigo
Ointment of Marshmallow (Nicolas)
Diachylon
Diachylon with Orris
Diachylon with Gums


Ulcers and Cancer of the Breast

From The Treasury of Health, 1550:
1. Plaster of Litharge
2. Plaster of Black Nightshade
3. Olive leaf beaten and applied 'kills the Cancer in womens breast'


Breast, Fistulas of

Decoction for Cancer
TCM Classification

Breast Lumps

Qi Stagnation
Breasts tenderness, lumps that come and go, especially before the period, PMS, emotional, headache, mild stress or depression

Si Ni San
Xiao Yao San
Dan Zhi Xiao Yao San
Chai Hu Shu Gan San


Heat and Toxin
Breast Abscess or hard swelling that's red and painful

Wu Wei Xiao Du Yin
Xi Huang Wan


Heat, or Heat and Damp
Irritable, headache, restless, angry, red tongue with a yellow coating, rapid pulse

Dan Zhi Xiao Yao San
Long Dan Xie Gan Tang


Phlegm and Damp Stagnation
Lumps in the breast, fibrocytic Breast disease, cough with white sputum, nausea, coated tongue and a slippery pulse

Er Chen Tang
Hai Zao Yu Hu Tang


Blood Stasis with Phlegm
Chronic lumps, fixed pain, clotted menstruation, dysmenorrhea, purplish tongue coat with dark spots, dark lips, choppy pulse

Gui Zhi Fu Ling Wan
Zhen Ru Huo Ming Yin
Huo Luo Xiao Ling Dan


Yang Deficiency
Painful swelling that doesn't form a head, no redness; person is weak, feels the cold, has a pale tongue and a deep, weak pulse

Yang He Tang
Special Formula

For Hard Breast Lumps
"In tumors of Scrofulas, or hard Impostumes of the Breast, I have used the oil of Turpentine mixed with Mistletoe of the Oak in form of an Ungent". (114 Experiments and Cures of Paracelsus, 1652)

Hyperplasia of the Breast
    Hedyotis Bai Hua She She Cao 20g
    Bupleurum Chai Hu                     15g
    Curcuma Yu Jin                            15g
    Citrus Zhi Ke                                 15g
    Scrophularia Xuan Shen             15g
    Angelica Dang Gui                      12g
    Ligusticum Chuan Xiong            12g
    Self Heal (Xia Ku Cao)                 12g
    Dandelion (Pu Gong Ying)         12g
    Oyster shell (Mu Li)                     20g
    Cyperus Xiang Fu                        15g
    Peonia Bai Shao                           12g
    Licorice (Gan Cao)                         6g.
Decoct to be taken once daily.