🌿 Folk Prescriptions

Abnormal vaginal discharge (known as "dai xia" in Traditional Chinese Medicine) is a common gynecological disorder. It refers to excessive, abnormally colored, textured, or odorous discharge, or accompanied by systemic or local symptoms. Causes include trichomoniasis, fungal vaginitis, senile vaginitis, cervical erosion, cervical polyps, endometritis, cervical cancer, etc. Clinical manifestations include excessive discharge, continuous flow, lower back pain, fatigue, or mixed red and white discharge, multiple colors, purulent and foul-smelling discharge. If the odor is extremely foul, cancer should be suspected.
TCM Syndrome Differentiation and Treatment
Heat-Deficiency Type
[Clinical Manifestations] Excessive, yellowish-white discharge, sticky consistency, foul odor; or white, thick, cottage-cheese-like discharge with itching, poor appetite, yellow urine, yellow greasy tongue coating, wiry rapid pulse.
[Dietary Therapy and Medicinal Cuisine]
1. Ginkgo Bean and Tofu Decoction: 10 ginkgo nuts (without hearts), 100 g tofu, stewed until cooked and consumed.
2. Three Nuts Decoction: 10 ginkgo nuts, 50 g coix seed, 50 g winter melon seed, decocted with water, taking half a bowl of liquid daily.
3. Lotus Juice and Chicken Flower Decoction: Half a bowl of lotus juice, 30 g cockscomb flower, decocted with water, add red sugar, taken twice daily.
Spleen Deficiency Type
[Clinical Manifestations] White or pale yellow discharge, sticky, odorless, continuous flow, pale complexion, cold limbs, fatigue, poor appetite, loose stools, pale tongue with white greasy coating, slow pulse.
[Dietary Therapy and Medicinal Cuisine]
1. Fish Milt Stewed with Pig Trotters: 20 g fish milt, 1 pig trotter, both placed in a clay pot with water, slowly stewed until tender, seasoned and consumed once daily.
2. Chicken and Ginkgo Nut Decoction: 200 g chicken (cut into chunks), 10 g ginkgo nuts, 30 g Codonopsis pilosula, 10 g Atractylodes macrocephala, 30 g Dioscorea opposita, 15 g Poria cocos, 30 g Astragalus membranaceus, boiled into soup, discard residue, drink soup and eat meat. One portion daily.
3. White Kidney Bean Stop-Discharge Decoction: 30 g white kidney beans, 30 g Dioscorea opposita, appropriate amount of red sugar. Soak white kidney beans in rice wash water, remove skins, cook together with Dioscorea until soft, add red sugar. Taken twice daily.
4. Pepper and Egg: 7 peppercorns, 1 egg. First roast pepper until charred, grind into powder. Then poke a small hole in the egg, fill with pepper powder, seal the hole with thick paper, place on fire to boil until cooked. Remove shell and eat. Twice daily.
Kidney Deficiency Type
[Clinical Manifestations] Cold, watery, profuse discharge, thin consistency, continuous flow, lower back pain as if broken, cold abdominal pain, thin white tongue coating, deep slow pulse.
[Dietary Therapy and Medicinal Cuisine]
1. Cinnamon and Prepared Aconite Egg Soup: 5 g cinnamon, 10 g processed aconite, 1 egg. Boil cinnamon and aconite, remove residue, beat in egg, cook until done, eat egg and drink broth. Twice daily.
2. Lotus Seed and Job's Tears Porridge: 100 g lotus seeds (without hearts), 100 g Job's tears, 50 g fresh lotus leaf, 50 g glutinous rice, cooked into porridge. Add appropriate amount of rock sugar before serving. One portion daily.