Experience of Professor Ma Chaoqun in Treating Erysipelas with the External Application of Sihuang Kudi Decoction
Abstract：Erysipelas is a common acute infectious skin disease clinically. The main pathogenic bacteria are Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae. Western medicine mainly treats this disease with antibiotics. This disease is easily misdiagnosed in the early stage or worsens due to prolonged untreated conditions. Professor Ma Chaoqun, a famous traditional Chinese medicine physician in Jiangsu Province, understands the etiology and pathogenesis of this disease from four aspects: heat-toxin excess, wind-heat assisting fire, stasis blocking the meridians, and toxins entering the blood level. He classifies the syndrome into four types: heat-toxin accumulation syndrome, wind-fire toxin excess syndrome, stasis-toxin blocking the meridians syndrome, and toxin entering the blood level syndrome. Emphasizing external treatment based on internal and external combined therapy, he uses his self-prepared formula Sihuang Kudi Decoction to treat erysipelas effectively, broadening the thinking for the diagnosis and treatment of yang syndrome sores in traditional Chinese medicine.
Keywords：ErysipelasYang Syndrome SoresSihuang Kudi DecoctionMa Chaoqun
Publication Date：2025-05-15
Online Publishing Date：2025-09-05(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 57-59 )