🌿 Folk Prescriptions

Women experiencing vaginal bleeding, with no obvious organic lesions found in reproductive system examinations, are often suffering from endocrine dysfunction, known as functional uterine bleeding, abbreviated as "functional bleeding."
In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), this condition is referred to as "Beng Lou," meaning sudden and excessive menstrual bleeding or prolonged spotting. TCM has abundant experience treating functional bleeding, and dietary therapy offers unique advantages—being convenient, practical, and highly effective, making it worth promoting. However, treatment must be individualized based on syndrome differentiation, matching symptoms accordingly.
Common clinical types of functional bleeding include: heat in blood type, blood deficiency type, blood stasis type, and spleen deficiency type.
According to age characteristics, functional bleeding can be categorized into adolescent functional bleeding, reproductive-age women’s functional bleeding, and menopausal functional bleeding. Generally, adolescent functional bleeding tends to be heat-in-blood type; reproductive-age women commonly present with blood stasis and blood deficiency types; while menopausal functional bleeding mostly belongs to spleen deficiency type. These distinctions can guide dietary selection.
Corn Silk Stewed with Lean Meat
Applicable to heat-in-blood type: Use 30 grams of corn silk, 120 grams of lean meat, appropriate salt, and a little monosodium glutamate. Cut the lean meat into pieces, place together with corn silk in a ceramic pot, add 500 ml water, cover, steam until meat is tender, then add salt and monosodium glutamate, consume warm. Corn silk has cooling and hemostatic effects; traditionally used to treat "red collapse" (excessive bleeding). Lean meat nourishes blood. Combined, they show significant efficacy in treating heat-in-blood type functional bleeding.
Octopus Bone Stewed with Chicken
Applicable to blood deficiency type: Use 30 grams of octopus bone, 30 grams of Angelica sinensis, 100 grams of chicken meat, and appropriate salt and monosodium glutamate. Cut chicken into small cubes, slice Angelica, crush octopus bone, place all in a ceramic pot, add 500 ml water and salt, steam until fully cooked. Consume once daily. Typically effective after 3–5 sessions. Octopus bone has astringent hemostatic properties; Angelica and chicken are both excellent blood-nourishing ingredients, thus showing strong efficacy for blood deficiency type functional bleeding.
Leonurus Herba Stir-Fried with Shepherd’s Purse
Applicable to blood stasis type: Use 30 grams of fresh Leonurus herba, 30 grams of fresh shepherd’s purse, and 30 grams of cooking oil. Wash and chop fresh herbs. Heat cooking oil in an iron wok over high flame, stir-fry the herbs until cooked. Eat twice daily until bleeding stops. Leonurus herba promotes blood circulation, breaks up stagnation, and regulates menstruation. Shepherd’s purse contains tragacanth acid, which shortens bleeding and clotting time, thereby achieving hemostasis. Thus, it is especially effective for blood stasis type functional bleeding.
Litchi Dried Stewed with Lotus Seeds
Applicable to spleen deficiency type: Use 20 dried litchis, 60 grams of lotus seeds. Remove shells and pits from litchis, remove cores from lotus seeds, wash thoroughly, place in a ceramic jar with 500 ml water, steam over medium heat until cooked. Dried litchis are rich in nutrients; traditionally regarded as a tonic that nourishes blood and strengthens the spleen. Lotus seeds primarily strengthen and consolidate. Together, their combination is well-matched, hence frequently used to treat spleen deficiency type functional bleeding.