Eight-Ingredient Leukorrhea Formula

名家方選湯劑

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Source

名家方選

Composition

Dang Gui 15g, Tu Fu Ling 18g, Chuan Xiong 10g, Mu Tong 10g, Fu Ling 10g, Chen Pi 6g, Da Huang 3g, Jin Yin Hua 10g

Preparation

Boil six bowls of water down to two bowls; take one bowl warm before each meal.

Form

湯劑

Function

Clear heat and resolve toxins, dispel dampness and dissipate stagnation.

Traditional indications

Treats Damp-heat accumulation in the lower burner causing foul-smelling discharges, such as red-and-white leukorrhea, gonorrheal leukorrhea, male gonorrhea, etc. In cases with a slightly red tongue, thin yellow greasy coating, and rapid or wiry-rapid pulse.

Modifications

Thin and profuse white leukorrhea: add Cang Zhu:10, Bai Zhu:10, Yi Yi Ren:30. -- Genital itching: add She Chuang Zi:10. -- Damp-heat with pain and itching: combine with Huang Lian Jie Du Tang. -- Male gonorrhea, or yellow leukorrhea in women, with severe Damp-heat in the Liver channel: combine with Long Dan Xie Gan Tang.

Cautions

Those with constitutional weakness and no Damp-heat should not use this formula.