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Complementary and Alternative Healing
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Trichomoniasis Herb Therapy 滴蟲性陰道炎 The symptoms in women include pruritus and burning associated with a foul, heavy, foamy yellow-green or gray vaginal discharge, discomfort during intercourse, and painful urination, and on rare occasions, lower abdominal pain. Men may not have symptom. It can be transmitted through sexual intercourse, using contaminated toilet seat, bathtub, infected clothing, and unclean examination practice. Relapses usually occur when the body is weaken, after menus, pregnancy, after birth, and changes of pH ( healthy range is 4.2 ~ 5) of the vagina. One of the following external washing formulae can be selected. External washing formulae: Formula 1 tu fu ling, ku shen, she chuang zi, hua jiao, wu mei, ku lian pi, huang bai, xiong huang, du fan, di fu zi. Grind equal amount of the above herb into coarse powder. Use 40 g each time. Boil with water for 5 minutes. Strain with cloth. Put into a sitting bath. Sit on it and steam while the liquid is hot. When cool down (warm to touch), sit into the liquid for about 15 minutes. Then wrap one piece of tu she chuang zi in thin white cloth. Disinfect by boiling in water for 5 minutes. Insert into vagina. Do this once day. A therapy period is six days. Effectiveness: 90 patients. Healed 79. Better 9. Total effectiveness 97.5%. Source: Yi Xiu Zhen, Kun Ming Chinese Medincine Hospital, Kun Ming City, Yunnan Province, China. Formula 2 ku shen 30 g, tu fu ling 30 g, she chuang zi 30 g, sheng bai bu 30 g, long dan cao 15 g, zhi jin pi 15 g, huang bai 15 g, chuan jiao 15 g, cang zhu 15 g, di fu zi 24 g. Boil with water for external bath. Twice per day. Ten days is one therapy period. Effectiveness: 326 patients. Healed 298. better 21. Total effectiveness: 97.85 % Formula 3 lang du, ku shen, she chuan zi, di fu zi, jin yin hua, huang bai, 30 g each. Add water 3000 cc. Boil down to 1500 cc. Strain with cloth. Add bing pian, ku fan 3 g each. When liquid is cool enough and warm to touch, use it as sitting bath. Use it twice a day, 30 to 40 minutes each time. Seven days is a treatment. Effectiveness: 320 patients. Healed 306. Better 8. Total effectiveness: 98.1%. Average treatment 13 days. Warning: do not use the external formulae for internal consumption. The herbs lang du is toxic so is bing pian although small amount were being used in some classical formulae to be taken orally. For botanical names of herbs see Chinese Herb Dictionary
Internal herb formulae: Name of Formula: long dan xie gan tang Prescription: long dan cao 6 g, huang qin 9 g, shan zhi zi 9 g, ze xie 12 g, mu tong 9 g, che qian zi 9 g, chai hu 6 g, gan cao 6 g, sheng di 9 g. Boil with water. One prescription a day, made into two servings. Stop taking when symptoms subside. Do not take it for a long time.
Warning:
This formula can be toxic to the
kidneys because of the herb mu
tong. There are
different varieties of mu
tong in the market.
Before the
Qing dynasty, however, it was not toxic because mu
tong was derived from
either the plant of Akebia guinata
or the plant Akebia
lobata.
Today, ninety
five percent of mu
tong (guan mu tong
關木通)
used in China is from the stem of
Aristolochia debilis,
a toxic plant
usually grown in the northeastern provinces
of China,
formally called Manchuria. Only rarely in a
few localities in China, is mu
tong
obtained from Akebia
guinata
or Akebia lobata being used.
If you use this formula, make sure you are not using guan mu tong. Use chuan chuan mu tong or huai tong, or bai mu tong tong instead.
Manufactured formulae that contain guan mu tong are being banned in China because of the toxicity to the kidneys.
注意﹕ 木通有幾種。現在市場上賣的 95% 是關木通﹔屬于 馬兜鈴科﹐對腎臟有毒。凡含有關木通的成藥將被禁賣。 如用木通﹐不可用關木通。須用川木通﹐或淮通﹐或白木通。
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Last update: May 31, 2004;10:50 p.m. LA
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