formula name | Eight-Ingredient Leucorrhea Formula |
source | Famous Prescriptions Selection |
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Clearing heat and removing toxins, dispelling dampness and treating leukorrhea.
Treat dampness-heat in the lower energizer causing foul-smelling secretions, such as red leucorrhea, gonorrheal leukorrhea, male gonorrhea, etc. Symptoms include a reddish tongue with thin, yellow, greasy coating, and a rapid or wiry pulse.
bubble_chart Formula Principles
In the formula, Glabrous Greenbrier and Lonicera can clear heat and remove toxin, treating sores and dissipating heat; Chinese Angelica and Sichuan Lovage Rhizome can tonify blood and eliminate sores and ulcers; Poria, Akebia Stem, and Dried Tangerine Peel remove dampness-heat and clear water toxin heat; Rhubarb Rhizoma clears heat and removes toxin, invigorates blood, and dispels stasis. The combination of these herbs achieves the effects of clearing heat and removing toxin, nourishing and invigorating blood, moving qi, and drying dampness.
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bubble_chart Cautions and Contraindications
This prescription is not suitable for those with a deficiency constitution and no dampness-heat.
bubble_chart Modern Application
Various leukorrhea, cervicitis, adnexitis, vulvar pruritus, those belonging to dampness-heat, male gonorrhea, urethritis, etc.