Article 56: Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnosis, Single-herb Prescriptions, and Dietary Therapy for Excessive Semen Volume

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Treatment and recuperation of common diseases

How does Traditional Chinese Medicine differentiate syndromes and treat diseases?

1. Damp-heat retention type: Symptoms include infertility after marriage, copious ejaculation, sometimes increased white blood cells under a microscope, bitter and sticky taste in the mouth, scanty and dark urine, or incomplete urination, yellow and greasy tongue coating, red tongue, and slippery and rapid pulse.

Treatment principle: Clear damp-heat from the seminal vesicles.

Prescription: Dioscorea hypoglauca 20g, Phellodendron chinense 10g, Coix lacryma-jobi 15g, Paeonia lactiflora 10g, Paeonia suffruticosa 10g, Alisma plantago-aquatica 10g, Talcum (wrapped) 15g, Tetrapanax papyriferus 3g, Plantago asiatica (wrapped) 15g, Achyranthes bidentata 15g, Glycyrrhiza uralensis 3g.

2. Spleen deficiency and impaired transport type: Symptoms include infertility after prolonged marriage, copious semen that is thin and watery, poor appetite and abdominal distension, heaviness in the limbs, fatigue and weakness, loose stools, pale tongue with white coating, and thready and slippery pulse.

Treatment principle: Strengthen the spleen, regulate qi, and promote the transformation and transportation of fluids.

Prescription: Codonopsis pilosula 15g, Atractylodes macrocephala 12g, Astragalus membranaceus 10g, Poria cocos 15g, Angelica sinensis 10g, Citrus reticulata peel 12g, Cinnamomum cassia 10g, Pinellia ternata 10g, Dioscorea opposita 15g, Lindera strychnifolia 12g, Aucklandia lappa 5g, Nelumbo nucifera seed 15g, Alpinia oxyphylla 10g.

3. Kidney Qi Deficiency Type: Symptoms include infertility after marriage, copious and thin semen with reduced sperm count and low viability, soreness in the lower back and spine, cold limbs, fatigue, clear and copious urine or dribbling after urination, loose stools, dizziness, pale red tongue with thin white coating, and deep and thready pulse.

Treatment principle: Tonify the kidneys and consolidate essence, promote sperm production and fertility.

Prescription: 10g deer antler (decocted first), 20g cistanche deserticola, 15g morinda officinalis, 15g prepared rehmannia root, 15g rosehip, 10g alpinia oxyphylla, 15g achyranthes bidentata, 5g aconite (decocted first), 20g astragalus membranaceus, 15g codonopsis pilosula.

Traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions for treating excessive semen volume

1. Angelica sinensis 10g, Gentiana scabra 10g, Aloe vera 3g, Aucklandia lappa 5g, Gardenia jasminoides 10g, Scutellaria baicalensis 5g, Coptis chinensis 3g, Phellodendron chinense 10g, Rheum palmatum (added later) 6g. Decocted in water and taken orally, one dose per day.

2. Take 60 grams of Job's tears, 15 grams of plantain seed (wrapped), and 10 grams of sophora flavescens. Decocted in water and taken once a day.

3. Deer antler powder 10g, mantis egg case 30g, cynomorium 10g, schisandra 10g, cinnamon twig 10g, astragalus 20g, dragon bone 20g, decoct in water and take one dose daily.

4. 10g of Curculigo orchioides, 10g of Morinda officinalis, 20g of Alpinia oxyphylla, 10g of Psoralea corylifolia, 15g of Poria cocos, 15g of Alisma plantago-aquatica, and 3g of Foeniculum vulgare. Decocted in water and taken once a day.

Medicinal diet for treating excessive semen volume

1. Prepared aconite root 15-20g, fresh ginger 150g, garlic as needed, dog meat 500-1000g, peanut oil as needed. Simmer the ginger until cooked, wash and chop the dog meat. First, sauté the garlic cloves in peanut oil in a pot for a short while, add an appropriate amount of water, then add the dog meat, prepared aconite root, and simmered ginger slices. Cook together for 2 hours, and serve in appropriate portions.

2. Cook 15 grams of lotus seeds, 30 grams of goji berries, and 30 grams of rice into porridge. Add white sugar after the porridge is cooked.

3. Take 30 grams of Job's tears, 30 grams of Poria cocos, 60 grams of red beans, and an appropriate amount of rice. Wash the herbs and rinse the rice, then cook them together into porridge.

4. One hen, 15 grams of Cistanche deserticola, 15 grams of Curculigo orchioides, and 30 grams of Cuscuta chinensis. Remove the feathers and internal organs of the hen, put the herbs in a cloth bag and place it inside the hen's abdomen, add water and boil for 1-2 hours. Eat the meat and drink the soup.

5. Boil 300g of venison, 15g of wolfberry, 30g of dodder seed, 10g of morinda root, and 50g of yam together for 2 hours. Remove the dregs and eat the meat and drink the soup.

6. 10g deer antler, 10g aconite, 10g seahorse, and 1 yellow dog kidney. Soak the yellow dog kidney in wine, then slice it thinly. Soak the yellow dog kidney and the first three herbs in 1000ml of white wine for 7 days. Take 15-30ml each time, twice a day. Used for those with deficiency of kidney yang.

7. 10 grams of lotus seeds, 10 grams of white fungus, and 2 live sparrow eggs. Boil the lotus seeds and white fungus in 500 ml of water until tender. Quickly add the live sparrow eggs, season with MSG and salt to taste, and consume as desired. One course of treatment is 2 months.

8. One yellow dog kidney, 10 grams of deer antler, 10 grams of aconite, and 10 grams of seahorse. First, soak the yellow dog kidney in wine and then slice it. Soak it together with the deer antler, aconite, and seahorse in 1000-2000 ml of white wine. After one week, it can be consumed. Take one tablespoon each time, twice a day.

What should we pay attention to in daily life?

1. Quit the habit of masturbation, and abstain from sexual activity during treatment.

2. Adjust your diet, avoid raw, cold, greasy and spicy foods, do not drink excessive alcohol, and abstain from smoking.

3. This disease has a long treatment course and slow results, so treatment should be continued.

4. Actively treat the primary disease.

5. This disease is one of the causes of infertility. To enable the woman to become pregnant, the semen can be centrifuged and artificial insemination can be performed.

Low sperm count

Oligospermia refers to a semen volume of less than 1.5 ml per ejaculation. The amount of semen is related to the length of abstinence; longer abstinence results in a larger semen volume, and vice versa. This condition is one of the causes of male infertility.

Causes of disease

1. Incomplete gonadal development or gonadal atrophy, decreased function, or endocrine disorders can lead to insufficient or reduced levels of sex hormones such as testosterone in the body, which can cause a decrease in the secretion of seminal vesicles and prostate gland. For example, absence of seminal vesicles or atrophy of the prostate gland can result in insufficient semen volume.

2. Infections of accessory glands can also cause decreased secretion. For example, in cases of prostatic tuberculosis or seminal vesicle tuberculosis, the amount of semen can be significantly reduced.

3. Pathological damage or obstruction of the sexual organs, such as space-occupying lesions of the seminal vesicles, prostate stones, and damage to the vas deferens caused by reproductive tract surgery, can all lead to semen excretion disorders, resulting in insufficient semen volume.

4. Frequent pathological ejaculation caused by various diseases can also result in insufficient ejaculation volume each time.