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Fibroid Tumors
Fibroid Tumors are a classic Melancholy-type Tumor in the Western Tradition. It is analogous to Phlegm-Damp and Blood-stagnation Masses of TCM. It requires a combination of Blood-moving Medicines and medicines to clear Damp and Melancholy.
Diet include foods which are easily digestible, avoiding foods hard to digest including meat of old animals
Many medicines that clear Damp are effective to clear Fibroids including Poria Fu Ling and Agaric of the West. Spleen tonics are often good against Fibroids as they help resolve Damp. In addition, great emphasis was placed on purging the Melancholy Humor in the Western Tradition.
Standard Treatment in the West:
1. Syrup of Fumitory
2. Syrup of Dodder
3. Decoction of Dodder
4. Confectio Hamech
Diet include foods which are easily digestible, avoiding foods hard to digest including meat of old animals
Many medicines that clear Damp are effective to clear Fibroids including Poria Fu Ling and Agaric of the West. Spleen tonics are often good against Fibroids as they help resolve Damp. In addition, great emphasis was placed on purging the Melancholy Humor in the Western Tradition.
Standard Treatment in the West:
1. Syrup of Fumitory
2. Syrup of Dodder
3. Decoction of Dodder
4. Confectio Hamech
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Western Tradition
Decoction for Boils and Abscess
Decoction of Dodder of Thyme (Rhasis) Decoction of Dodder of Thyme (Mesue) Decoction for Cancer (Fuller) Decoction of Woods Compound Syrup of Vinegar Greater Syrup of Fumitory (Mesue) The Syrup to Purge all Humors of Frankfurt Syrup of Roses with Senna Tincture of Cantharides Wine of Pill Millipedes Troches Praised for Liver Hardness (Nicholas) Powder for Scrofula (Wirtzung) Troches of Myrrh (Rhasis) Powder of Gum Lacca Lesser (Dialacca Minor) (Rhasis) Powder of Gum Lacca Lesser (Dialacca Minor) (Mesue) Powder of Gum Lacca Greater (Dialacca Majores) (Mes) Pills for Melancholy (Unani) Arabian Confect Purging Melancholy (Confectio Hamech) Diachylon Plaster with Gums Compound Meliot Plaster To Purge The Blessed Laxative (Nicholas) Arabian Confect Purging Melancholy (Confectio Hamech) Electuary of Senna Indian Pills Pills of Lapis Lazuli |
TCM Classification
Blood Stasis with Phlegm/Damp Obstruction
Fixed mass, dull heavy feeling (more pain or feeling if Blood stasis, less feeling and more heaviness if Damp), dark or purplish tongue with whitish, poor appetite, smooth coating, choppy pulse Gui Zhi Fu Ling Wan More Severe Blood Stasis Fixed mass maybe with dull pricking pain, more pronounced in the cold, dark or clotted menstruation, dull complexion, purplish tongue, lips and nail beds, choppy pulse Huo Luo Xiao Ling Dan Xue Fu Zhu Yu Tang (Upper body) Ge Xia Zhu Yu Tang (abdomen) Shao Fu Zhu Yu Tang (lower abdomen) Da Huang Zhe Chong Wan Comment: the three 'Zhu Yu' formulas above are primary formulas to move the Blood and resolve masses in TCM. However to resolve Fibroids requires the addition of medicines to clear Phlegm such as Poria Fu Ling, Pinella Ban Xia, or Arisaema Tian Nan Xing, for example. |