Vaginal discharge disease, also known as leucorrhea, is a common and frequently occurring disease in women. Leucorrhea refers to an increase in the amount of vaginal discharge, with abnormal color, texture, and odor, often accompanied by systemic or local symptoms. There are many causes of leucorrhea, such as trichomonas vaginitis, candida vaginitis, senile vaginitis, cervical erosion, cervical polyps, endometritis, cervical cancer, etc. Common clinical manifestations include increased leucorrhea, continuous flow, lower back pain, fatigue, etc., with a combination of red and white discharge, or discharge with various colors, or purulent and turbid discharge with a foul smell. If the discharge has a foul odor, one should be cautious about the possibility of cancer.
Traditional Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment:
1. Warm-hot syndrome:
Clinical manifestations: increased leucorrhea, yellow-white in color, sticky and foul-smelling, or white discharge with a tofu residue-like texture, vaginal itching, poor appetite, yellow urine, thick yellow greasy tongue coating, and wiry and rapid pulse.
Dietary therapy:
- White fruit and tofu decoction: Take 10 white fruits (without the pit) and 100 grams of tofu, stew and consume when cooked.
- Three kernel soup: Take 10 white nuts, 50 grams of coix seed, and 50 grams of winter melon seed, decoct in water, take half a bowl of the soup daily.
- Lotus root juice and cockscomb flower soup: Take half a bowl of lotus root juice, 30 grams of cockscomb flower, decoct in water, add brown sugar and consume twice daily.
2. Spleen deficiency syndrome:
Clinical manifestations: white or pale yellow leucorrhea, sticky and continuous, no foul odor, pale complexion, cold limbs, fatigue, poor appetite, loose stools, pale tongue, white greasy tongue coating, and slow pulse.
Dietary therapy:
- Fish maw and stewed pig trotter: Take 20 grams of fish maw and 1 pig trotter, put them in a casserole with water, simmer until tender, season and consume once a day.
- Chicken meat and white fruit decoction: Take 200 grams of chicken meat (cut into pieces), 10 grams of white fruit, 30 grams of Codonopsis pilosula, 10 grams of Atractylodes macrocephala, 30 grams of Chinese yam, 15 grams of Poria cocos, 30 grams of astragalus root, boil in water, remove the residue and drink the soup with the meat. Consume once a day.
- Mung bean and Huai yam decoction: Take 30 grams of mung beans, 30 grams of Huai yam, and an appropriate amount of brown sugar. Soak the mung beans in rice washing water to remove the skin, then cook with Huai yam until fully cooked. Add an appropriate amount of brown sugar and consume twice daily.
- Pepper and egg: Take 7 peppercorns and 1 egg, first fry the peppercorns until charred, grind into powder. Then, poke a small hole in the egg, fill it with the pepper powder, seal the hole with thick paper, and boil until cooked. Peel the egg and consume twice daily.
3. Kidney deficiency syndrome:
Clinical manifestations: clear and cold leucorrhea, abundant in quantity, thin in texture, continuous throughout the day, accompanied by lumbosacral soreness, lower abdominal cold pain, thin white tongue coating, and slow pulse.
Dietary therapy:
- Cinnamon and aconite egg soup: Take 5 grams of cinnamon, 10 grams of aconite, and 1 egg. Decoct cinnamon and aconite in water, remove the residue, beat the egg, and cook until done. Consume the egg and drink the broth twice daily.
- Lotus seed and Euryale ferox porridge: Take 100 grams of lotus seeds (without the heart), 100 grams of Euryale ferox, 50 grams of fresh lotus leaf, and 50 grams of glutinous rice. Cook the porridge, add an appropriate amount of brown sugar to taste, and consume once a day.
