What are the acupuncture treatments for dysmenorrhea?

  Dysmenorrhea is a common gynecological disease, which is also known as menstrual abdominal pain or fainting pain.  Acupuncture treatment for dysmenorrhea has the advantages of fast onset, significant effect, wide adaptability, economic safety, easy operation, etc. It also improves the systemic symptoms and adjusts the internal environment of the body, which not only prevents dysmenorrhea but also has good long-term effects. At the same time, together with moxibustion, it invigorates Yang energy, strengthens blood supply, effectively enhances drug and acupuncture stimulation, increases blood flow thus improving uterine ischemic symptoms, relieves uterine muscle spasm, and achieves the purpose of stopping pain and activating blood circulation.  In clinical treatment, the practitioner usually selects acupuncture points according to the patient’s symptoms and combines them with the regularity of the menstrual cycle with different tonic-drainage techniques to achieve the purpose of relieving spasm and activating blood flow, relieving pain, and moving Qi and blood.  1, Qi stagnation and blood stasis, abdominal distension and pain, stabbing pain and refusal to press, poor menstruation, pleasant learning, purple and dull tongue, or petechiae, string or astringent pulse.  Acupuncture points: Qihai, Blood Sea, Zhongji, Taichong, Sanyinjiao, Yanglingquan, with diarrhea.  2.Cold clotting and dampness stagnation, with cold pain in the abdomen or colic, refusal to press, pain reduced by heat, low menstrual flow, dark with blood clots, cold form and cold extremities, white and greasy coating, sunken and tight pulse.  Acupuncture points: Kidney Yu, Secondary Shen, Zhenmen, Zhongji, Shui Shui and Diji, using flat tonic and flat diarrhea. Moxibustion can be added to Kidney Yu, Second Gobi, and Ligongmen.  3.Dampness and heat accumulation, see burning pain in the abdomen, refusing to press, pain even in the lumbosacral region, dark red menstruation, thick and lumpy, with a feeling of heat, red tongue with yellow greasy coating, slippery pulse.  Points to be taken: Zhongji, Dao Dao, Yinlingquan, Xingma, using the diarrhea method.  4. Deficiency of the liver and kidney, with vague pain in the abdomen, with a tendency to press, with light menstrual flow and thin quality, dizziness and tinnitus, soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, with a light red tongue, thin moss and a thin pulse.  Acupuncture points: Liver Yu, Kidney Yu, Tai Xi, Tai Chong, Sanyinjiao, using the tonic method.