1) Ingredients: Raw coicis semen root 30g, red bean 30g, pawpaw 9g.
Process: Cook all the ingredients in 500ml of water; after boiling for 5 minutes, turn to low fire to stew for 30 minutes; get the decoction by removing the dregs and to be taken in several times.
Efficiency: To clear away heat and remove dampness, stimulate the blood circulation and relax the muscles and joints.
It is applicable to the calcaneodynia at the early age with stabbing pain in the heel and which is worse after walking, swelling in the ankle.
2) Ingredients: Raw oyster 50g, tuckahoe 25g.
Process: Grind the raw oyster into the fine powder and wrap with a piece of cloth; rinse tuckahoe and cut into chunks; cook them in 500ml of water; after boiling for 5 minutes, turn to low fire to stew for 1 hour; get the decoction by removing the dregs and to be taken in several times.
Efficiency: To resolve hard lump and promote dampness to stop pain.
It is applicable to the calcaneodynia at the early age with tenderness in the heel and which is worse after waking for a long distance.
3) Get equal amounts of angelica, pawpaw, saponin and hair respectively and decoct them in water for the decoction; wash feet with the decoction and each time for 40 minutes; twist the arch for 200-300 times till a heat sensation is gained; take it twice in the morning and night.
4) Ingredients: Radix Astragali (Huangqi) 20g, clematis 20g, Radix Paeoniae Alba (Baishaoyao) 20g, peach kernel 12g, Cyathnla capitata Moq. 12g, Radix Angelicae Sinensis (Danggui) 12g, Chuanxiong (Rhizoma Chuanxiong) 12g, Rhizoma Corydalis (Yanhusuo) 12g, lignum millettiae 25g, safflower 10g, frankincense 10g, myrrh 10g, cockroach 10g, liquorice 10g.
Process: Decoct all the ingredients in water for the decoction; to be taken in three times and one dose a day.
Efficiency: To regulate qi and activate blood circulation, remove blood stasis to stop pain.
5) Ingredients: prepared rehmannia root 25g, lignum millettiae 25g, medlar 12g, fructus psoraleae 12g, the seed of Chinese dodder 12g, angelica 12g, parasitic loranthus 12g, radix achyranthis bidentatae 12g, tu-chung 15g, radices paeoniae alba 20g, Herba Epimedii (Yinyanghuo) 10g, Fructus Corni (Shanzhuyu) 10g, Radix Morindae Officinalis (Bajitian)10g.
Process: Decoct all the ingredients in water for the decoction; to be taken in three times and one dose a day.
Efficiency: To nourish the liver the kidney, free the vessels to stop pain.
6) Ingredients: Angelica root 10g, bombyx batryticatus 10g, scorpion 10g, and 3 centipedes.
Process: Grind all the ingredients into powder and mix it up; place 3g of the mixture on the Shangshi Zhitong Ointment each time; then apply it on the pain spot of the heel.
7) Points selected: Ashi. Patients keep a prostrate position with the knees bent and the bottom of heel upward; the pressure point is usually found at the middle point of the bottom of heel or the margo lateralis of heel, then be marked with the crystal violet; it is the point of Ashi.
Manipulation: Cut the ginger into a slice with the thickness of 1cm and the diameter of 5cm; take the moxa out from the moxa stick to make a moxa cone with the bottom diameter of 1cm and the height of 1cm; take ginger moxibustion on the Ashi till an obvious sensation of pain is gained; then put out the moxa cone immediately with the crown cap; take three cones continuously and the effected cannot be get wet. Take the treatment every three days and take it twice a week; four times is a course of treatment and one course to be taken in all.
8) Soaking Method
Take 1000ml of mature vinegar and heat it warm; soak feet in it for 20-30 minutes each time and twice a day; the pain in the heel will be relieved gradually after continuous treatment for half a month and be cured after continuous treatment for 1-2 months;
9) Take 500g of eggplant root in 4000ml of water; soak for 30 minutes and decoct with low fire 30 minutes; steam and wash the effected part for 1 hour( heat the decoction again if it cooled down); take it once every night and 10 days is a course of treatment.
