Recently, since the winter season, we often encounter women in their twenties and thirties who come to the clinic for irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea and infertility. After detailed examination, we find that these women are mostly accompanied by symptoms such as lumbar soreness, cold limbs and cold pain in the abdomen. The “cold in the womb”. If you do not pay attention to the timely management of “cold in the womb” can often cause a series of symptoms. As a woman, do you understand the “cold in the womb”.
What is “cold in the womb”?
”It is a common term used in Chinese medicine to describe gynecological disorders caused by Yang deficiency and internal cold in women suffering from irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea and infertility. The “womb” here refers to the uterus, also known as the uterus, but the “womb” in Chinese medicine is not exactly the same as the uterus in Western medicine, it includes a wider range of organs, including the uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes and so on. The “cold” here refers to coldness, including the coldness produced by insufficient yang qi to warm the organs, and also the coldness caused by the feeling of external cold and the internal invasion of cold due to excessive consumption of cold and cold food. The former is called deficiency cold evidence, the latter is called real cold evidence.
Which female friends are more likely to suffer from “uterine cold”?
The body is usually “Yang Qi” deficiency, often cold limbs, body tiredness and weakness, it is easy to appear “Palace cold”. In addition, bad habits can also cause “cold”. Such as some female friends usually do not pay attention to cold warmth, in order to beautiful slim, even in the cold autumn and winter also dress thin, or for the desire to cool, the summer air conditioning temperature is set too low, usually especially love to eat cold drinks or just out of the refrigerator food, even during menstruation also eat as usual, these bad habits are easy to make cold stagnation in the uterus and lead to the “uterus cold The “cold in the womb”.
How to determine “cold in the womb”? (The main manifestations of cold in the uterus)
If women often have cold hands and feet, soreness and weakness of the waist and knees, coldness in the abdomen, delayed menstruation or low menstrual flow and dark, or blood clots, after marriage for a long time without pregnancy, or even menstrual stoppage does not work; cold pain in the abdomen before or during menstruation, the pain can be relieved after hot compresses; leucorrhea clear and thin amount, etc., then we should consider whether it is “cold in the uterus”. In serious cases, it often causes infertility, or after pregnancy, fetal development is delayed, sexual desire is light, the face white, loose stools, dull tongue, white moss, sunken and moist pulse, etc.
How to treat “cold in the womb”
Chinese medicine treats “cold in the uterus” mainly by dialectical treatment, according to whether it belongs to the actual cold evidence or deficiency cold evidence to treat. The treatment of the actual cold caused by feeling cold or cold diet should be based on dispersing the cold, you can use warming soup, Gui Zhi Fu Ling Wan, etc.; the treatment of the deficiency of Yang Qi and Yin cold within the deficiency of the cold should be based on warming Yang and dispersing the cold, you can use Jin Kui Kidney Qi Wan, Ai Shen Nuan Gong Wan, etc. As each person’s constitution is different, so the specific medication is recommended to find a regular professional Chinese medicine practitioner under the guidance of medication. In addition, moxibustion can be used in combination with ordinary moxibustion, moxibustion with ginger and moxibustion with medicine, often with Guan Yuan, Qi Hai, Zhen Men, Shen Que, Kidney Yu, Uterus and Guilai points, once a day. In addition to herbal treatment, the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of our hospital also adopts the treatment method of dou moxibustion paste to treat those with uterine cold and blood stagnation. In addition, the annual Sanjiu paste and Sanfu paste have a good effect of warming the uterus and dispersing cold.
How to prevent “cold in the womb”
In order to avoid the “cold” in your body, women should first pay attention to the diet and other aspects of life to do: 1.
1, eat less cold food, such as winter melon, white radish, bitter melon, watermelon, mung beans, green tea, etc., especially do not eat just from the refrigerator out of the frozen food. The menstrual period is even more contraindicated to eat these cold foods, even in the hot summer should also eat less sorbet, cold drinks, etc.. You can eat more warm food, such as ginger, brown sugar, walnuts, dates, peanuts, mutton, tomatoes, etc. In addition, the diet can also be used some food therapy (see food therapy methods).
2, clothing to pay attention to the cold to keep warm, pay special attention to the small abdomen, waist, feet warming, especially the menstrual period, even in the hot summer, but also to avoid wearing umbilical cord dress, ultra-short skirt, barefoot wading, etc., in order to prevent the cold invasion of the uterus.
Food therapy methods.
1, angelica ginger mutton soup
Ingredients: 500 grams of lamb, 30 grams of angelica, 50 grams of ginger.
Practice: wash the lamb, cut, blanch with boiling water; angelica, ginger washed with water, ginger slices, angelica wrapped in gauze, put the lamb, angelica, ginger together into a sand pot, add boiling water, after boiling, change the fire to boil 2 – 3 hours, eat meat and drink soup. Once a week.
2, jujube ginger brown sugar water
Ingredients: 10 jujube, brown sugar 10 grams, ginger 10 grams.
Method: Wash the dates, ginger, ginger slices; put the dates, ginger, brown sugar together in a pot and boil for 20 minutes to eat, once a day every other day.
3, red beans and wolfberry porridge
Ingredients: 100 grams of round-grained rice, red beans 50 grams, wolfberry 30 grams
Method: Wash the round-grained rice, red beans, wolfberry with water, put them into the pot together, add the right amount of water and boil for about 30 minutes, into a porridge can be eaten.