YELLOW CHANGING DECOCTION
Yi Huang Tang (yellow discharge)

 

 ‘Yellow Changing Decoction’
Source: Gynaecology by Fu Qing Zhu (Fu Qing Zhu Nu Ke, 1827)

Keywords
vaginitis and chronic pelvic inflammation

Ingredients
Chao Dioscorea opposita (Shan Yao, dioscorea)
Chao Euryale ferox (Qian Shi, seed of gordon euryale)
Phellodendron chinensis (Huang Bo, phellodendron)
Plantago asiatica (Che Qian Zi, plantago)
|Ginkgo biloba (Yin Xing, ginkgo nut)

Major therapeutic action
Nourishes the Kidney, clears Heat, removes Dampness, stops leukorrhoea.

 Biomedical action
Antibacterial.

Indications
o Damp in lower jiao.
o  Chronic vaginitis, chronic cervicitis and leukorrhoea.

Key symptoms for use
o  yellow vaginal discharge with fishy odour
o  yellow and greasy tongue fur

Cautions and contraindications
None noted.
None noted. 		Dosage
The typical dose is three grams twice daily, before meals. In severe cases or the early stages of treatment (the first two weeks), a 50-100% increase in dose may be used, then reduced as the treatment takes effect.