What are the TCM syndrome differentiation and treatment methods for female cervicitis?

Once a woman suffers from cervicitis, she will be accompanied by many symptoms. Cervicitis can be acute or chronic. Most cases are chronic cervicitis. Chronic cervicitis can cause the patient to have a lot of leucorrhea, and the color of the leucorrhea will be yellow. In severe cases, the leucorrhea will be accompanied by blood, but generally there will be no pain or itching. If it is acute cervicitis, the symptoms will be more serious. So what is the treatment method of traditional Chinese medicine for cervicitis?

TCM Syndrome Differentiation and Treatment of Cervicitis:

Prescription: 9 grams of gentian, 8 grams each of gardenia, scutellaria, plantain seed, oriental water plantain, raw rehmannia, smilax glabra, and angelica, 5 grams each of tongcao, bupleurum, and licorice, and 15 grams of toona sinensis root bark.

Usage: Decoction in water and take in 3 doses, 1 dose per day.

Efficacy and indications: soothing the liver and clearing away heat, promoting dampness and stopping leukorrhea. Used to treat chronic cervicitis, which is classified as damp-heat type in TCM. Symptoms include heavy leukorrhea, yellow or yellow-white, thick texture, irritability, chest and flank pain, bitter and greasy mouth, dry mouth and no desire to drink, yellow urine, red tongue, yellow and greasy fur, and stringy pulse. Examination showed mild to moderate cervical erosion.

Prescription: 15 grams each of honeysuckle, wild chrysanthemum, dandelion, and oldenlandia diffusa, 8 grams each of Viola yedoensis, Atractylodes macrocephala, Gastrodia elata, Poria, Alisma orientalis, Gardenia jasminoides, Lithospermum officinale, and Chinese toon root bark, and 10 grams of Patrinia herb.

Usage: Decoction in water and take in 3 doses, 1 dose per day.

Efficacy and indications: clearing away heat and detoxifying, removing dampness and stopping leukorrhea. It is used to treat chronic cervicitis, which belongs to the type of internal invasion of dampness and toxicity according to TCM syndrome differentiation. Symptoms include heavy leukorrhea, yellow or yellow-green in color, or red and white, or mixed with five colors, sticky or purulent, with fishy odor, abdominal distension and pain, lumbar pain, short and red urine, red tongue, yellow and rough fur, and slippery pulse. Examination shows severe cervical erosion or polyps. If the spleen and stomach are weak and the body is deficient in righteousness, astragalus can be added to strengthen the body and detoxify.

Prescription: 15 grams of Atractylodes macrocephala, 12 grams each of Cuscuta australis, yam, Atractylodes lancea, and Poria cocos, 5 grams of roasted licorice, 9 grams of Plantago seed (wrapped and decocted), 8 grams each of Codonopsis pilosula, Psoralea corylifolia, Bupleurum chinense, Black Brassica juncea, and Morinda officinalis.

Usage: decoction in water and take in 3 doses, 1 dose per day.

Indications: Strengthens the spleen and warms the kidney, removes dampness and stops leukorrhea. Used to treat chronic cervicitis, which is classified as spleen and kidney deficiency in TCM. Symptoms include heavy leukorrhea, white or light yellow, thin, or irregular menstruation, infertility, mental fatigue, poor appetite, loose stools, clear and long urine, sore waist and knees, white and slippery tongue coating, and weak and slow pulse. Examination shows cervical erosion or papillary type.