How to treat scrofula

Scrofula is the name of traditional Chinese medicine, because its clinical manifestations are the neck or armpit tuberculosis like beads, so it is called scrofula. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the basic pathogenesis of this disease is qi stagnation and phlegm obstruction, phlegm and blood stasis. Over time, it can transform heat, and further develop into heat toxin, flesh rot into pus, and it can also consume yin of liver and kidney. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment of scrofula is based on syndrome differentiation. It can be taken orally or externally. Scrofula is similar to lymph node tuberculosis in Western medicine. It is definitely active tuberculosis and requires anti-tuberculosis treatment.