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Zishi Qing (Quartz, calcined seven times in vinegar) Fuzi (Prepared Aconite Root) Gouji (Cibotium Rhizome) Chuanxiong (Ligusticum Rhizome) Lurong (Deer Antler, roasted with vinegar, each 1 liang) Xiangfu (Cyperi Rhizome, boiled with vinegar, 2 liang). All above are ground into fine powder.
Make pills with glutinous rice paste boiled in vinegar, size of wu-tzu (Chinese apricot seed). Take 70 pills each time, washed down with warm wine.

Yangqi Huoxue Dan (Qi-Nourishing and Blood-Invigorating Pill) Treats red and white leukorrhea caused by labor injury to the Chong and Ren meridians.
Da Aiye (Mugwort Leaf, stir-fried until charred, take powder, 5 liang) Ganjiang (Dried Ginger, stir-fried to powder, 2.5 liang).
Take the above two ingredients, add 2 sheng of vinegar, 2 sheng of unadulterated wine, and 2 sheng of fresh ginger juice. Mix the ginger and mugwort powders in a silver vessel, and simmer slowly over low heat until it becomes a paste.
Fuzi (Prepared Aconite Root) Baishao (White Peony Root) Baizhu (Atractylodes Rhizome) Juhong (Tangerine Peel) Chuanxiong (Ligusticum Rhizome) Danggui (Angelica Sinensis Root) Bajitian (Morinda Root, remove heart, stir-fry with glutinous rice) Renshen (Ginseng Root) Wuweizi (Schisandra Fruit, each 2 liang).
Grind the above into fine powder, mix into the previous paste, and add 2.5 liang of stir-fried熟 wheat flour. Knead and pound for a thousand strikes, make pills size of wu-tzu. Take 50 pills each time, washed down with warm wine or rice water.

Zhuyu Yu Tang (Evodia Bath Decoction) Treats deficiency-cold of the Lower Jiao, pain in the umbilical and abdominal regions, five-colored leukorrhea, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, continuous dripping.
Wuzhuyu (Evodia Fruit, soak in hot water) Duzhong (Eucommia Bark, stir-fry to remove silk fibers) Shechuangzi (Cnidium Fruit) Wuweizi (Schisandra Fruit) Dingpi (Symplocos Bark, each 1 liang) Muxiang (Costus Root) Dingxiang (Clove Bud, each 0.5 liang).
Chop the above into sizes like hemp seeds. Use half a liang each time, place in a raw silk bag, add three large bowls of water, boil for several boils. While hot, fumigate the lower part, then wash with lukewarm water when comfortable. Fumigate and wash twice morning and evening.

[Li Dongyuan] Zu Yao Long Yan Gao (Sitting Medicine Dragon Salt Paste)
Dingxiang (Clove Bud) Muxiang (Costus Root) Chuan Wutou (Prepared Sichuan Aconite Root, each 1.5 qian) Quanxie (Whole Scorpion, 5 pieces) Longgu (Fossilized Bones) Dangguiwei (Angelica Sinensis Root Tail) Xiangfu (Cyperi Rhizome) Chao Huangyan (Stir-fried Yellow Salt) Jiufangji (Prepared Stephania Root) Rougui (Cinnamon Bark) Hongdou (Red Bean, each 2 qian) Yanshusuo (Corydalis Rhizome, 5 qian) Houpo (Magnolia Bark, 3 qian) Liangjiang (Alpinia Officinarum Rhizome) Mutong (Akebia Stem, each 1 qian) Kufan (Calcined Alum, 0.5 qian).
Grind all into powder, refine honey to make pills size of bullet. Wrap in cotton cloth, leaving thread outside, insert into vagina.

Another Prescription: Shengyin Dan. Because the above medicine's power is small, take another 3 qian, additionally add herbs with hot properties.
San Nai Zi (Sand Ginger) Chuan Wutou (Sichuan Aconite Root) Da Jiao (Large Pepper, each 5 fen) Chaihu (Bupleurum Root) Qianghuo (Notopterygium Rhizome, each 2 qian) Quanxie (Whole Scorpion, 3 pieces) Dasuan (Garlic, 1 qian) Pogu Zhi (Kudingcha Seed, roast with garlic, 1 qian) Gansong (Nardostachys Root) Shengma (Cimicifuga Rhizome) Ku Bai Fan (White Calcined Alum, each 2 fen) Shexiang (Musk, a little).
Grind all into fine powder, prepare according to the previous method.

Another Prescription: Huiyang Dan
Quanxie (Whole Scorpion) Shengma (Cimicifuga Rhizome) Gansong (Nardostachys Root, each 2 fen) Caowutou (Prepared Grass Aconite Root) Qianghuo (Notopterygium Rhizome, each 3 fen) Da Jiao (Large Pepper) San Nai Zi (Sand Ginger) Bibo (Long Pepper Fruit) Kufan (Calcined Alum, each 5 fen) Chuan Wutou (Sichuan Aconite Root) Chaihu (Bupleurum Root, each 7 fen) Shuizhi (Leech, 3 strips, stir-fry until charred) Mengchong (Blue Bottle Fly Larva, 3 pieces, remove wings and feet, stir-fry) Dasuan (Garlic) Pogu Zhi (Kudingcha Seed, each 2 qian) Chao Huangyan (Stir-fried Yellow Salt, 1 qian, must use this herb, otherwise ineffective).
Grind all into extremely fine powder, prepare according to the previous method into pills size of fingertip. Wrap in cotton cloth and insert into vagina. Effect is felt when warmth is perceived below the umbilicus.

Jiu Zhu Danggui Wan (Wine-Boiled Angelica Pill) Treats epilepsy, leukorrhea, under-infection Hong Kong foot (tinea pedis), coldness below the waist as if in ice and snow. Even with fire heating and thick cotton clothing, still unable to bear the cold, indicating extreme cold. Face pale like a dried fish, muscles wasted as if carved by knife, indicating rapid emaciation. Urination uncontrollable, leukorrhea flowing continuously without restraint, unaware of it. Face pale, eyes blue-green like vegetable color, vision unclear, body heavy as mountain, walking unsteadily, unable to stand firm, legs and knees thin and withered, constipation, inability to speak, indicating extreme weakness. Food intake poor, epigastric fullness, vexation and restlessness, unbearable suffering. Facial dirt accumulation, aversion to cold on back, urinary incontinence unaware, indicating exhaustion of true qi of Upper, Middle, and Lower Yang meridians, hence constant hiccups and vomiting, indicating extreme stomach cold. Pulse is deep, cold, tight, and choppy, empty upon pressure. If pulse is surging and choppy but weak upon pressure, it still indicates middle cold syndrome; how much more so if empty upon pressure? If not drumming upon pressure, it indicates extreme yin-cold. The emptiness indicates extreme deficiency of both qi and blood.
Danggui (Angelica Sinensis Root, 1 liang) Xiangfu (Cyperi Rhizome, 0.5 liang) Hei Fuzi (Black Prepared Aconite Root, peeled and de-navelled) Liangjiang (Alpinia Officinarum Rhizome, each 7 qian).
Chop the above four ingredients into sizes like hemp seeds. Boil with 1.5 sheng of good wine until wine is exhausted. Dry over charcoal fire, grind together into extremely fine powder. Add: Chao Huangyan (Stir-fried Yellow Salt) Dingxiang (Clove Bud, each 0.5 liang) Quanxie (Whole Scorpion, 3 qian) Chaihu (Bupleurum Root, 2 qian) Shengma Gen (Cimicifuga Root) Muxiang (Costus Root, each 1 qian) Kulian Zi (Toosendan Fruit) Gancao (Licorice Root, roasted, each 0.5 qian) Yanshusuo (Corydalis Rhizome, 4 qian).
Mix with the previous four herb powders, grind into fine powder. Make pills with wine-boiled wheat flour paste, size of tung tree seed. Take 20 pills each time, after empty stomach and residual food digested, washed down with light vinegar water. Avoid greasy, cold foods, alcohol, and wheat products.

Danggui Fuzi Tang (Angelica and Aconite Decoction) Treats cold pain below the umbilicus, red and white leukorrhea.
Chaihu (Bupleurum Root, 7 fen) Liangjiang (Alpinia Officinarum Rhizome) Ganjiang (Dried Ginger) Fuzi (Prepared Aconite Root, each 1 qian) Shengma (Cimicifuga Rhizome) Xie Shao (Scorpion Tail, each 5 fen) Gancao (Licorice Root, roasted, 6 fen) Chao Huangyan (Stir-fried Yellow Salt, 3 fen) Danggui (Angelica Sinensis Root, 2 qian) Huangbai (Phellodendron Bark, a little, all above coarsely powdered).
Take 5 qian, add two zhan of water, decoct to one zhan. Remove dregs and take hot. Can also be made into pills.
Regarding the example of stir-fried salt above: Li Dongyuan's note on Huiyang Dan states: Must use stir-fried yellow salt, otherwise ineffective. It is likely the key herb for treating cold hernia.

[Expelling Pus]
Treats leukorrhea, and persistent dripping of putrid pus in intestines, with extremely foul odor, leading to increased cold pain in umbilical and abdominal regions. This is caused by putrid blood and pus, with no sudden end, requiring this prescription to expel pus.
Baizhi (Angelica Dahurica Root, 1 liang) Dan Ye Hong Shukui Gen (Single-leaved Red Hibiscus Root, 2 liang) Baishao (White Peony Root) Bai Fan (Alum, each 0.5 liang). Roast Bai Fan until burnt, grind separately. Mix remaining powder with wax to make pills size of tung tree seed. Take 10 or 15 pills on empty stomach and before meals with rice water. After pus is exhausted, continue with tonifying medicines.

[Chen Ziming] Fulonggan San (Dragon Liver Powder) Treats chronic red and white leukorrhea in women, with emaciated and sallow skin. Someone had metrorrhagia for years, ineffective with various medicines, pulse was soft and faint. Given this Fulonggan San, taken with Baifan Wan, cured. (Formula seen previously.)

Baifan Wan (Alum Pill)
Bai Fan (Alum, 4 liang) Fuzi (Prepared Aconite Root, 2 liang) Huang Gou Gutou (Yellow Dog Bone, 4 liang, burnt to ash, all above ground into powder).
Make pills with congee, size of tung tree seed. Take 30 pills each time.

[Eliminating Stasis]
[Zhang Zhongjing] Questioned: A woman around fifty years old has diarrhea for dozens of days without stopping, fever in the evening, urgency and fullness in lower abdomen, heat in palms, dry lips and mouth. What is this? Master said: This disease belongs to leukorrhea. Why? Because she once had a miscarriage, and blood stasis remains in the lower abdomen. How do we know? Her symptom is dry lips and mouth, thus we know. Should treat with Wen Jing Tang.

Wen Jing Tang (Warm the Menses Decoction)
Wuzhuyu (Evodia Fruit, 3 liang) Danggui (Angelica Sinensis Root) Xiong (Ligusticum Rhizome) Shaoyao (Peony Root) Renshen (Ginseng Root) Guizhi (Cinnamon Twig) Ejiao (Donkey-hide Gel) Mudanpi (Moutan Bark) Shengjiang (Fresh Ginger) Gancao (Licorice Root, each 2 liang) Banxia (Pinellia Tuber, half sheng) Maidong (Ophiopogon Tuber, 1 sheng).
Twelve ingredients, add ten dou of water, decoct to obtain three sheng. Divide into three warm doses. Also treats cold in lower abdomen of women, long-term infertility, metrorrhagia with blood loss, excessive menstruation, or delayed menstruation.

[Zhu Danxi] Treating red and white leukorrhea: Use Lingzhi (Trogopterus Dung), half raw half cooked, ground into powder, mixed with wine and taken.

Yimu San (Motherwort Powder) Treats red and white leukorrhea, continuous lochia discharge.
Harvest Motherwort when flowering, grind into fine powder. Take 2 qian with warm wine on empty stomach, three times daily.

Xiangfan San (Cyperi and Alum Powder) Miraculous effect. (Formula seen in Metrorrhagia Black Blood Stop section. i.e., Vinegar-roasted Cyperi Rhizome ash.)

[Zhu Danxi] Red and white leukorrhea all belong to blood, originating from Large Intestine or Small Intestine.
Huang Jing Zi (Vitex Fruit) stir-fried until charred, ground into powder, mixed with rice water and taken.

[Chen Ziming] Treating leukorrhea: Use Shaoyao (Peony Root) stir-fried until black, ground into powder. Take 3 qian bi, mixed with wine and taken.
Treating women's red and white leukorrhea, regardless of duration, gradually becoming emaciated, unable to move freely.
Use Ci Ji Gen (Thistle Root) (amount unspecified, sun-dry and weigh. For every 1 jin, soak in 5 sheng of young boy's urine for one fu period, take out and sun-dry).
Grind into fine powder. Take 2 qian before meals, mixed with warm wine.

Daimai Wan (Trionyx Pill) Treats persistent red and white leukorrhea.
Daimai (Trionyx Carapace) Xuduan (Dipsacus Root, each 1 liang) Anshixiang (Benzoin Resin) Qilinjie (Dragon's Blood) Ruxiang (Frankincense) Moyao (Myrrh, each 0.5 liang) Gu Jin Hui (Ash of Old Brocade, 7.5 qian).
Grind into fine powder. Refine honey and Anshixiang, mix with powder to make pills size of mung bean. Take 30 pills before meals, washed down with warm wine.

[Virgin Leukorrhea]
"Chanbao" Chapter 14 Question: What are the three diseases of unmarried girls? Answer: First disease: When menstruation first starts, internal heat in vagina, sleeping in wind, or fanning oneself. Second disease: Tai Chong meridian is vigorous, qi excess causes internal heat, washing with cold water. Third disease: Being frightened by seeing red substances. If any of these three occur, leukorrhea symptoms will follow later.

Shenxian Jubao Dan (Immortal Treasure Gathering Pill) Treats deficiency-cold of Blood Sea in women, external wind-cold invasion, binding and not dispersing, accumulating into masses, or forming hard fibroids, and qi-blood attacking, causing abdominal and hypochondriac pain, urgent and distended urination, or false borborygmus, vomiting of saliva and foam, vertigo and blurred vision, heavy and painful legs and knees. Sallow complexion, edema of limbs, menstrual flow starting like severe illness, varying amounts, red and white leukorrhea, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, fright and amnesia, frequent or white urination, occasional deficiency heat, night sweats and emaciation. This medicine treats all cases regardless of prenatal, postnatal, or virgin status. Regular use calms the mind, dispels evil, eliminates stale blood, nourishes new blood, and enables conception.
Muxiang (Costus Root, grind separately) Hupo (Amber, grind separately) Danggui (Angelica Sinensis Root, baked and powdered) Moyao (Myrrh, mix powders, each 1 liang) Dilu (Drop Milk [Myrrh], 2.5 qian, grind) Shexiang (Musk, grind) Chen Sha (Cinnabar, grind, each 1 qian).
Grind all into powder. Add cold/hot liquid and pound into pills. Each 1 liang makes 15 pills. Take 1 pill each time, dissolved in warm wine. For difficult labor, abdominal pain, all birth difficulties, dissolve in wine and young boy's urine. For postpartum blood syncope, stale blood rushing to heart, locked jaw and stiff tongue, or incomplete lochia, thirst and facial edema, decoct Sour Plum Soup and mix with young boy's urine to dissolve. For virgins with irregular menstruation, dissolve half a pill in warm wine. For postpartum qi-blood imbalance, dissolve in young boy's urine, take at any time.

Cui Si's Four Flower Acupoints treat red and white leukorrhea miraculously. (Acupuncture points see previous text.)

[Yang Jizhou] Red and White Leukorrhea: Zhongji (2.5 cun, reduce for red, tonify for white). Bairuan Shu (1.5 cun, reduce six breaths, tonify one breath).

[Cuo] Another Method: Zhongji, Bairuan Shu (each 15 moxa cones). Shenshu (2.5 cun, moxa according to age).

[Ji] Another Method: Qihai, Zhongji, Bairuan Shu (if ineffective, take following points). Sanyanjiao (Tonify more, reduce less, moxa 7 cones).
Sanyinjiao

[Li Dongyuan] Another Method: Rongchi (3 fen, moxa 30 cones. In the pool pulse on both sides front and back of medial malleolus, also named Yin Yang acupoint). Another Method: Yinyang (Below big toe, at the junction of flexor side and extensor side white flesh). Another Method: Sanyinjiao (5 fen, moxa). Jiaoyi (2 cun, moxa). Louyin (5 fen below medial malleolus, slight arterial pulse, this point, puncture 1 fen, moxa 30 cones).

[Sang] Red Leukorrhea ("Xinshu" says if red leukorrhea persists, gradually becoming like gu poison, also use this method). Qihai (6 fen) Zhongji Weizhong (each 5 fen).
White Leukorrhea ("Xinshu" says if white leukorrhea persists, gradually becoming like gu poison, also use this method). Qugu Chengyin (each 7 fen).
Zhongji (6 fen below lateral pillar bones).

[Xin] Women who conceive often transform into clear white fluid dripping continuously, leading to prolonged facial and body edema. Yinggu (2.5 cun) Jiegu (2.5 cun). Like panting and fullness: Yuji penetrating Dazhui. (Total 49 breaths left and right, excellent for treating lung meridian water qi).

[Hai] Leukorrhea disease, governed by Tai Yin. Moxa Zhangmen acupoint with mustard seed-sized cones, 3 cones each, effective.

[Jia] After women discharge red and white fluids, dry and painful vagina, aversion to intercourse, hardness in lower abdomen, urinary obstruction, Qugu governs.
Women's red and white leukorrhea, Yao [point] governs. Women's red discharge, Dahu governs. Women infertile, vaginal prolapse and incontinence, white discharge, Shang [point] governs.
Women's red and white discharge, epigastric fullness, Ci [point] governs. Women's red discharge, occasional white, qi stagnation, scanty menstruation, Zhong [point] governs. Women's involuntary green fluid discharge, red discharge, itchy and painful vagina, pulling lower abdomen, controlling [pain] unable to bend or straighten, Xia [point] governs. Women's hernia, lower abdominal swelling, red and white discharge varying, Ligou governs.
Menstrual difficulty, seeing red and white while pregnant, and anterior yin cold, Xingjian governs. Women's hernia and lower abdominal swelling, loose stools, strangury, urinary incontinence, genital pain, dusty dark face, infraorbital pain, Taichong governs. Women's para-umbilical hernia, Zhongfeng governs. Women's hernia fibroid, pressing feels like hot water poured between thighs, lower abdominal swelling, vaginal prolapse pain, menstruation flow, vulvar swelling or itching, dripping clear fluid like okra soup, blood closure, Ququan governs. Women's red and white discharge, interior urgency and spasms, Wushu governs.

["Suwen"] Kidney pulse small and urgent, Liver pulse small and urgent, Heart pulse small and urgent, not drumming all indicate jia masses. ([Da Qi Lun] Wang Bing notes: Small and urgent indicates severe cold. Not drumming means blood does not flow. Blood not flowing and cold thinning causes blood to coagulate internally forming jia masses.)
Three Yang urgent indicates jia masses, Three Yin urgent indicates hernia. (Wang Bing notes: Tai Yang receiving cold, blood gathers forming jia. Tai Yin receiving cold, blood gathers forming hernia.) Urgent pulse is called hernia jia, lower abdominal pain. ([Ping Ren Qi Xiang Lun])

[Pulse Diagnosis] Master said: Women's leukorrhea, Six Extremes disease. Floating pulse indicates borborygmus and abdominal fullness. Tight pulse indicates abdominal pain. Rapid pulse indicates vaginal itching, pain leads to sores. Wiry pulse indicates genital pulling pain. Women's leukorrhea with floating pulse and aversion to cold is untreatable.

[Prenatal Leukorrhea]
[Zhu Danxi] Treating leukorrhea during pregnancy.
Cangzhu (Atractodes Rhizome, 3 qian) Shanzhuyu (Cornus Fruit, remove pit) Baishao (White Peony Root, each 2.5 qian) Huangqin (Scutellaria Root, stir-fry) Baizhi (Angelica Dahurica Root, each 2 qian) Chugenpi (Tree-of-Heaven Bark, stir-fry) Huanglian (Coptis Rhizome, stir-fry) Huangbai (Phellodendron Bark, stir-fry, each 1.5 qian).
Grind into powder, make pills with paste. Take 50 pills with warm wine on empty stomach.