Injuries due to knocks and falls

1. Injuries from blows, collisions, collapses, or falls from heights.

2. Any injury resulting from knocks and falls. Injuries from knocks and falls include stasis swelling (bruises), cuts and grazes, sprains, bone fractures, dislocations, and damage to the bowels and viscera.

Medicinal therapy: Dispel stasis, move qì, relieve pain, stanch bleeding, soothe the sinews, and strengthen the bones. Commonly used formulas include Seven Pinches Powder (七厘散 qī lí sǎn), Origin-Restorative Blood-Quickening Decoction (复元活血汤 fù yuán huó xuè tāng), Sinew-Strengthening Blood-Nourishing Decoction (壮筋养血汤 zhuàng jīn yǎng xuè tāng), and Bone-Righting Purple Gold Elixir (正骨紫金丹 zhèng gǔ zǐ jīn dān), etc. Fractures and dislocations also require bone righting treatment. See also incised wound; blood stasis; sprain; bone fracture; dislocation; internal injury.