🌿 Folk Prescriptions

Vaginal discharge disease is a traditional Chinese medical term, also known as “leucorrhea,” a common and prevalent condition among women. It refers to significantly increased vaginal discharge with abnormal color, consistency, odor, or accompanied by systemic or local symptoms. Causes are numerous, including trichomoniasis vaginitis, fungal vaginitis, senile vaginitis, cervical erosion, cervical polyps, endometritis, cervical cancer, etc. Clinical manifestations commonly include excessive discharge, continuous flow, back pain, fatigue, or mixed red and white discharge, discharges of multiple colors, purulent and turbid with foul smell. If the odor is putrid and unbearable, consider possible malignancy.
TCM Syndrome Differentiation and Treatment
Heat-Type
[Clinical Manifestations] Excessive, yellowish-white discharge, sticky consistency, foul odor; or white, sticky discharge resembling tofu residue, itching in the genital area; poor appetite, dark yellow urine, yellow greasy tongue coating, rapid wiry pulse.
[Dietary Therapy and Pharmacological Dishes]
1. Ginkgo Bean and Tofu Decoction: 10 g ginkgo seeds (remove hearts), 100 g tofu. Simmer until cooked and consume.
2. Three Seeds Decoction: 10 g ginkgo seeds, 50 g coix seed, 50 g winter melon seed. Decoct in water, take half a bowl of broth daily.
3. Lotus Juice and Cock’s Comb Flower Decoction: Half a bowl of lotus juice, 30 g cock’s comb flower. Decoct in water, mix with red sugar, consume twice daily.
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Spleen Deficiency Type
[Clinical Manifestations] White or pale yellow discharge, sticky consistency, no odor, continuous flow; pale complexion, cold limbs, fatigue, poor appetite, loose stools; pale tongue, white greasy coating, slow pulse.
[Dietary Therapy and Pharmacological Dishes]
1. Fish Maw Stewed Pig Trotter: 20 g fish maw, 1 pig trotter. Place together in a clay pot with sufficient water, stew slowly until tender. Season and consume daily.
2. Chicken and Ginkgo Seed Decoction: 200 g chicken (cut into chunks), 10 g ginkgo seeds, 30 g codonopsis, 10 g atractylodes, 30 g chinese yam, 15 g poria, 30 g astragalus. Boil into soup, remove herbs, drink broth and eat meat. Consume once daily.
3. White Kidney Bean Stop-Leucorrhea Decoction: 30 g white kidney beans, 30 g chinese yam, appropriate amount of red sugar. Soak white kidney beans in rice wash water, remove skins, then boil with chinese yam until cooked. Add red sugar, consume twice daily.
4. Pepper and Egg: 7 green peppercorns, 1 egg. First roast pepper until charred, grind into powder. Pierce a small hole in the egg, fill with pepper powder, seal the hole with thick paper, boil over fire until cooked. Remove shell and eat. Consume twice daily.
Kidney Deficiency Type
[Clinical Manifestations] Cold, clear, excessive, thin discharge, continuous dripping, waist pain as if broken, cold abdominal pain, thin white coating, deep slow pulse.
[Dietary Therapy and Pharmacological Dishes]
1. Cinnamon and Prepared Aconite Egg Soup: 5 g cinnamon, 10 g prepared aconite, 1 egg. Decoct cinnamon and aconite in water, remove residue, crack egg into liquid, cook until done. Consume egg and drink broth twice daily.
2. Lotus Seed and Job’s Tears Porridge: 100 g lotus seeds (remove hearts), 100 g job’s tears, 50 g fresh lotus leaf, 50 g glutinous rice. Cook into porridge, add appropriate rock sugar before serving. Consume once daily.