Uterine fibroids can be treated with acupuncture to relieve certain symptoms. Moxibustion can shrink fibroid tumors to a certain extent and improve symptoms such as blood stasis, back pain, and abdominal pain, but it cannot completely cure uterine fibroids. Moxibustion is also not useful for all types of fibroids, but is only more effective for fibroids caused by cold-dampness, yang deficiency, and blood stasis.
Chinese medicine diagnoses uterine fibroids as accumulation evidence, which is mainly classified according to the cause as qi stagnation and blood stasis type, yin deficiency and blood stasis type, cold and damp stasis in the uterus, dampness and heat stagnation (dampness and heat evils gathering each other in the body) in the uterus, yang deficiency and blood stasis type, phlegm stasis in the uterus and so on.
The specific acupuncture points for moxibustion treatment of uterine fibroids should be determined according to the patient’s type, symptoms, concurrent symptoms, etc., and should be determined after the outpatient interview; moxibustion should be operated under the guidance of a professional physician; the uterine ultrasound should be regularly rechecked, and if the bleeding is too large, the tumor is too large or should be surgical treatment of the obstetrics and gynecology consultation.