Leucorrhoea is a cure for womanhood. It is an abuse for the young females. Secretion from the vagina at any time without any exciting cause is called leucorrhoea. These secretions could be yellow or have a tinge of black colour or could be frothy. The most common secretions, however, are white or dull white in colour.
Abortion, miscarriage, modern contraceptive devices, excess of sex, sexual gratification by unnatural means which weaken the sex apparatus and weaken sex nerves are the causes of leucorrhoea. Faulty liver function, drugs and vitamins deficiency could also cause this problem. Irregular and wrong food habits, indigestion, worry, tension, lack of physical exercise, late nights, and sudden shocks could be contributory causes.
If leucorrhoea is the result of some infection, the discharge may be thick and foul smelling. It can also be caused by imbalance of harmones. There is a direct relationship of this malady with nervous temperament. It occurs mostly among weak, emaciated and anaemic females. It may also be the result of inflammation of the womb following child birth, displacement of uterus or gonorrhoea. Among young girls the malady may be caused by thread worms, general debility and lack of cleanliness. Late nights precipate an attack of the disease. If the trouble becomes chronic, there may be irritability of temper.
In addition to the whitish discharge from the vagina there is weakness, pain in the lumbar region and the calves. There may also be an excess of bile and constipation, giddiness, black circles around eyes and heaviness in the lower abdomen.

For treating this body condition:-

Avoid fried, hot and spicy foods, pickles, savouries, maida and its products. Late nights and sexual intercourse are, of course, taboo during the course of the disease. One must also give up sexual vices, if any. Do not use nylon panties. Wash the genitals with water after urination.
Washing and cleansing of the vagina and internal parts with alum water will be very effective. Self massage of the body, especially the abdomen, while taking bath, helps considerably. A regular douching of the genital tract with a decoction of the bark of the banyan or fig tree keeps the tissues of the vaginal tract healthy.
Hot and cold fomentation of the lower abdomen and mud pack for twenty to thirty minutes, enema with luke warm water or green water improves elimination. Sitz bath and hip bath daily for ten minutes, hot and cold hip bath once or twice a week activates the reproductive system.
Apply wet bandage on abdomen two or three times a day. Take cotton cloth about 25 cm (10 Inches) wide of such a length that it can go round your abdomen thrice over. Wet it in ordinary cool water and rinse it. Wrap this thrice around your abdomen, almost over lapping. Then wrap tightly a woolen bandage of the same width over it and fasten it. Go about your work for about 30 to 45 minutes. Open the bandage and rub that part of the body.
Freshly crushed raw garlic with half a spoon of olive oil or soyabean oil may be taken at night before going to be. Fresh coconut water and juice of radish and its tender leaves or fenugreek (methi) leaves are also good. Yogurt and butter milk of cow or goat milk will reinstate a normal and favourable microbial balancein the body.
Yarrow herbal tea helps the entire reproductive system. The dried and powdered bark of Molsari tree mixed with an equal weight of raw sugar (brown in colour) should be taken with a glass of milk or, dry amla and liquorice should be taken in equal quantities and powdered and mixed with thrice the quantity of honey. 5 to 6 gms of the above should be taken in the morning and evening with milk.
The patient should chew betel nut after meals as it has curative effect. The diet should consist of alkaline foods rich in Iron and calcium eg. Chaulai, Oranges, grapes or apple juice. Fruit of goolar, pipal and Banyan tree is a specific for this condition. Soak 125 gm goolar in 125 ml water at night. Mash and drink in the morning with honey.

Breating Exercise: Deep slow controlled and rhythmic deep breathing in fresh air should be increased gradually from 50 to 100 times. Deep breathing is also taken as an indication of sexual ability.
Pranayam: Kapal Bhati, Nadi Shodhan, Bhastrika, Surya Bhedi should be done. Sex apparatus can be strengthened by practising servangasana (whole body) Bhujangasana (Serpent pose) and Dhanurasana (bow pose). Padmasan, Bhadrasana and Janushivasana strengthen the pelvic muscles and directly massage the generative organs.
The following yoga mudras help to impart vigour to ovaries, and the pelvic glands. Sit with your back straight and up right. Exhale completely. Draw up the anis and sex nerves for a count of ten, then inhale and relax. After five seconds again contract and draw up. Repeat 10-12 times. Uddiyan Bandha (Stomach uplift) and Mool Bandha Anal contraction) relieve pelvic congestion and increase sexual energy. It is very important, especially for women, to learn to contract and relax the muscles from the hips to the knees. When done regularly this helps to condition the muscles of the vaginal walls to tighten them and bring them under control so one can use them at will.
Sit with your back straight and up right. Place the left heel on the urethra and the right heel on the pubes. Inhale gradually and simultaneously contract the sex nerve. This will raise the ovaries slightly. After 5 seconds relax with gradual exhalation. Repeat 10 times then change the position of heels and repeat for about 10 times.
Sit with your back straight and upright. Inhale slowly and simultaneously draw up the anal nerve so that attraction reaches middle of the space between the anus and the end of the scrotum. Exhale gradually relaxing the strain. Repeat 5 to 10 times. The sex nerves and the related glands will get massaged.
Practise Nadishodhak Pranayam as detailed elsewhere. Another version of Pranayam is known to tone up the ovaries in women and the testes in men. Sit with your back straight and upright, Exhale completley. Now strain the navel region as long as convenient and then inhale relaxing the tense region. Repeat, continue for 2 or 3 minutes.
The above mentioned mudras and version of pranayam help in all body conditions mentioned in this booklet.

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