Dietetic Chinese Drugs for Menstrual Disorder (Image)

1) Water melon seed kernel (Semen Citrulli)
Grind 9g of kernels of water melon seeds into fine powder: Take it twice a day after mixing it with water.  It can be used to treat Irregular Menstruation and menorrhagia.

2) Black edible fungus (Auricularia) 
Bake 60g of black edible fungus on a tile and grind it into fine powder.  Take 3 to 6g of it each time, twice a day, for five successive days; Take it with brown-sugared water.  It is applicable to preceded menstrual cycle and menorrhagia.

3) Water chestnut (Semen Trapae)
Have 250g of fresh water chestnut mashed and decocted in water; add some brown sugar into the decoction and then take it. It is applicable to Irregular Menstruation and menorrhagia.

4) Cottonseed (Semen Gossypii)
Bake 80g of cottonseeds until they become yellow; then grind them into fine powder and divide it into 14 equal portions. Take one portion in the morning and one in the evening, with brown-sugared water. It is applicable to Irregular Menstruation.

5) Hawthorn fruit (Fructus Crataegi)
Decoct 50g of hawthorn fruits in water and remove the residues from the decoction which is to be infused with 21 to 24g of brown sugar. Take it warm.  It is applicable to delayed menstrual cycle.

6) Head of snakeheaded fish 
Have some heads of snake. Headed fish calcined with the original property retained and ground into fine powder. Take 9g of it each time, twice a day, with old wine.  It is applicable to delayed menstrual cycle.

7) Motherwort (Herba Leonuri)
Put 30g of motherwort into the pot for decocting herbs, and then decocts it in water for oral administration.  It is applicable to menstrual disorder.

8) Horse's hoof 
Have horse's hooves burned into charcoal with the original property retained and ground into fine powder. Take 6g each time with cooked millet (or rice) water, twice a day.  It is applicable to menorrhagia or profuse Leukorrhea.

9) Root of rose (Radix Rosae Rugosae)
Have 6 to 9g of rose roots decocted in water; infuse the decoction into some yellow rice (or millet) wine and brown sugar.  Divide itinto two portions and take one in the morning and the other in the evening.  It can be used to treat menstrual disorder.