The invention provides a collateral dredging and
inflammation diminishing
analgesic ointment, and relates to medicines for treating herpes zoster, scapulohumeral periarthritis and traumatic injuries. The ointment comprises the following medicinal materials: Chinese angelica, red peony root, raw rehmmania root, radix scrophulariae,
scutellaria baicalensis, coptidis rhizoma, cortex phellodendri,
rheum officinale, lonicera
japonica,
earthworm,
ligusticum wallichii,
gecko,
ground beetle, leech, safflower,
camphor,
angelica root,
pangolin,
frankincense,
myrrh, dragon's blood,
catechu, fructus forsythiae, nidus vespae, liquorice and
borneol. The ointment is prepared by the following steps: soaking raw materials except
borneol in 2.0-2.4kg of
sesame oil for 5-7 days; decocting until the mixture is black with
slow fire; removing dregs, adding 1.0-1.2kg of yellow lead, and keeping on decocting until the dropping mixture forms a
bead shape; removing from the fire and cooling; adding
borneol into the mixture, uniformly stirring, and spreading into patches. The collateral dredging and
inflammation diminishing
analgesic ointment has the advantages that the
treatment effect is good, the
cure rate is high, one patch of the ointment is used for 3 days and can be used for relieving pains in 8-12 hours, pains can be cured in 3 days generally, and certain individual syndromes need two patches and can be cured in 6 days; sequelae are not left; clinical testing on 229 cases indicates that the effective rate of the ointment is 100 percent; the ointment is prepared by using a pure traditional Chinese medicinal formula, and has small toxic and side effects.