Chinese Herb Formulae for yeast infections

Compiled and edited by: Joe Hing Kwok Chu

note: for Latin scientific names of herbs, see Chinese herb dictionary.

Vagina yeast infection herb formula 1

Prescription:

huang bo 15 g, cang zhu 15 g, qian shi 15 g, bai guo 10 g, fu ling 15 g,

long dan cao 12 g, che qian zi 15 g, ji guan hua 15 g, yi yi ren 30 g,

jiao zhi zi 10 g, cu chai hu 10 g, huai shan yao 12 g .

Boil herb with water. Use as tea before meal. One prescription a day.

A group of fifteen prescriptions is one treatment.

Formula for washing infected area:

she chuang zi 15 g, ku shen 15 g, bai bu 15 g,  yang ti 15 g,

cang zhu 15 g, chuan jiao 10 g, ai ye 10 g, bing pian 1 g

(Put in after all other herbs have been boiled for 15 to 20 minutes.)

add da qing yan (crude salt) 30 g

Editor's note: yang ti is not yang ti cao. It is also called tu da huang

but it is not da huang and do not substitute with da huang for external

use.

If scratch wounds appear, add ku fan 10 g and huang bo 15 g for use

as external bath.

Source of formulae: Meng Zao Hua, Chang Jia Ko Hospital of Chang

Jia Ko Medical School, He Bei, China.

Effectiveness: Total patients:68; healed: 36; highly effective:20;

got better 9; total effectiveness 95.7%.

This formula should be taken before meals to improve digestive enzyme

secretion. Avoid sugar, potato, yam, corn, sweet fruit juice and anything

with added sugar or high in natural sugar. The external herb for soaking

and washing should be used. Yeast infection can also be transmitted back

and forth from sexual partners. So the both female and male should be

treated with the formula.

Chinese herb formulae are adjusted to conform to individual body conditions.

These formulae are listed for your reference only.

Important: Click here to see explanation of formulae in Traditional

Chinese medicine page.

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