Women with excessive leucorrhea can eat more ginkgo porridge

Reader Ms. Huang asked: I have had the problem of excessive leucorrhea for years, and a neighbor gave me a folk remedy: eat 15 ginkgo nuts with rice porridge once a day, and you will be cured in 7 days. Could you please tell me, experts, is this recipe effective?

Comments from a teacher from the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine: The use of ginkgo nuts in treating gynecological diseases was recorded as early as in the "Binghu Ji Jian Fang" as "For the treatment of leucorrhea and lower abdominal weakness: five cents each of ginkgo nuts, lotus seeds, and glutinous rice. Grind them into powder, use a black-bone chicken, remove the intestines, put the medicine in, and cook it until it is soft. Eat it on an empty stomach." Modern people have improved the recipe by crushing 10 peeled ginkgo nuts and adding 250 grams of soy milk, or boiling 15 ginkgo nuts with rice into ginkgo porridge. Take it once a day for 3 to 5 days. The elderly can take it for 8 to 10 days. It can also improve the symptoms of excessive leucorrhea in women.

Excessive vaginal discharge is the most common symptom in gynecological clinic. The causes include bacterial infection, vaginal Trichomonas infection, cervical disease, chronic pelvic inflammatory disease, atrophic vaginitis, etc.

Ginkgo, also known as Ginkgo biloba and maidenhair tree, has the effects of astringing the lungs and relieving asthma, stopping leucorrhea and reducing urination. It is mainly used to treat asthma, phlegm, leucorrhea, leucorrhea, spermatorrhea, frequent urination, unknown swelling and pus, ringworms, etc. Regular consumption of ginkgo can nourish yin, nourish the skin, resist aging, dilate capillaries, promote blood circulation, make facial skin rosy, refreshed, and prolong life. In gynecology, the more definite effects of ginkgo are astringency, stopping leucorrhea and removing dampness. It can be used to treat leucorrhea with turbidity and yellow color, regardless of whether it is due to deficiency of the lower abdomen, thin and clear leucorrhea, or downward movement of damp-heat and turbid and yellow leucorrhea.

Studies have found that the ginkgolic acid and ginkgolic acid contained in ginkgo have antibacterial and bactericidal effects. Ginkgo water extract also has varying degrees of inhibitory effects on various fungi. Therefore, it can play a good regulatory role in vaginal flora imbalance. Women who are troubled by this aspect may wish to give it a try in their lives.