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C19 Chinese ink drawing: Boils - gumboil. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
C19 Chinese ink drawing: Boils - gumboil
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Ink and brush drawing from a handwritten copy of the anonymous text Dingchuang yaojue (Essential Art of Boils), executed in 1874 (13th year of the Tongzhi reign period of the Qing dynasty). It indicates the disease location for gumboils (yache ding). These often occur towards the back of the mouth. The preferred therapy is needling and opening (tiaoci), at locations including dicang (Earth Granary), chikong (tooth cavity), renzhong (Man's Middle) and dihe (Earthly Union); stomach-clearing beverage of chuanlian (i.e. huanglian, Chinese goldthread, rhizome coptidis) taken orally; and jinguolan (tinospora root) Pass-Opening medicine applied either externally or internally. If there are signs that heat toxins have entered the heart, zhaoxin (heart-covering) beverage can be given orally.
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PICTURE TITLE: Gumboil (yache ding)