TRADITIONAL INTERNAL MEDICINE – DISEASES & FORMULAS
Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD’s)
Sexually Transmitted Diseases are classed as Infectious Diseases, and so medicines used for against Infectious Diseases are generally applicable. In general, acute cases manifest with Heat and Toxin or Heat and Damp, while chronic cases manifest with deficiency. As always, Formulas need to be chosen which are applicable to the individual.
Primary Medicines
Argyreia seed
Balm
Burdock root
China root
Coptis Huang Lian
Echinacea
Emblic Myrobalan
Fumitory
Sage
Sarsaparilla
St. Johns wort
Tormentil
Violet
Vitex negundo root
Wormwood
Yarrow
Ulcers or Pustules of the Genitals
Ulcers and Pustules of the Genitals are generally caused by STD’s.
They can come from:
- Genital Herpes: Small, itchy, burning or painful blisters or pustules that break open to form raw, oozing, or scabby ulcers. Typically recur periodically.
- Chancroid (Haemophilus ducreyi): bacterial infection causing small, very painful ulcers on the penis
- Syphilis: small, round, single usually painless ulcer or open sore
- Chlamydia: some strains can cause small, usually painless, sores or blisters on the genitals
Sample Treatments:
1. Wash the genitals regularly with a strong decoction of Sage in wine (Macer)
2. “The ashes of a dry Gourd heals quickly the rotten ulcers of the Yard [Penis]”. (Dioscorides)
3. Wine decoction of Olive leaves used as a fomentation.
4. Plantain juice can be applied topically; the clarified juice was injected into the urethra if there are ulcers of it.
5. Litharge mixed with Oil of Roses and applied.
Western Tradition
TCM Classification
Chlamydia
Simples
Wormwood
Gentian
Plantain seed
Hops
Agrimony
Barberry
Marshmallow
Fumitory
Scutellaria Huang Qin
Poria Fu Ling
Dianthus Qu Mai
Artemisia Yin Chen Hao
Polyporus Zhu Ling
Phellodendron Huang Bai
Research:
1. Effects of baicalin on Chlamydia trachomatis infection in vitro.
2. [Study on activities of eight kinds of traditional Chinese medicine against urogential Chlamydia trachomatis].
Gonorrhea
Simples
Sarsaparilla
Sassafras
Rue
Wormwood
Plantain seed
Marshmallow
Cubeb
Bearberry
Saltpeter
China root
Guaiacum
Yarrow
Hops
Lettuce seed
Hemidesmus
Greater Cardamon
Sandalwood
Borax
Forsythia Lian Qiao
Dianthus Qu Mai
Alisma Ze Xie
Scutellaria Huang Qin
Ailanthus Chun Pi
Plantago Che Qian Zi
General Formulas
Syrup for Gonorrhea from Heat
Powder for Gonorrhea
Powder for Gonorrhea from Heat (Nicholas)
Powder of Digher (Unani)
Powder of Licorice (Unani)
Troches of Agnus Castus
Electuary of Micleta (Nicholas)
Arabian Confect Purging Melancholy (Confect Hamech)
Electuary of Orchid (Diasatyrion) (Nicholas)
Barberry 8 Powder (Tibetan Medicine)
Heat and Damp (Acute cases)
Ba Zheng San
Long Dan Xie Gan Tang
Dang Gui Nian Tong Tang
Cold and Damp
Bei Xie Fen Qing Yin
Kidney Deficiency (Chronic cases)
Shen Qi Wan
Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan
Other Combinations
1. Bistort, Tormentil, Water Lily root, Lettuce seed, Rue, Agnus Castus, Frankincense, Nutmeg
2. Senna, Mastic, Amber, Dragon’s blood, Terra Sigillata, Nutmeg (1 ½ oz. each), Red Sandalwood (½ oz.), washed Turpentine (½ oz.), powder of Tormentil enough to make into a Paste for Pills. (Natura exenterata, Philiatros, 1655)
3. Neem with Fumitory, White Sandalwood and China root
4. Chlorophytum with Cinnabar
Syphilis
Simples
Sarsaparilla
Guaiacum
Cold Seeds
Lettuce seed
Hemidesmus
China root
Sassafras
Couch Grass
Plantain seed
Picrorrhiza
Smilax Tu Fu Ling
Benincasa Dong Gua Zi
Scutellaria Huang Qin
Gential Warts
1. Podophyllum hexandrum root (ointment or paste)
2. Alum applied topically
Powder to Remove Genital Warts
Syrup of Fumitory Compound
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