Chinese medical evidence-based treatment of mastocytosis

       Mammary hyperplasia refers to the proliferation of breast epithelium and fibrous tissue, structural degenerative lesions of the ducts and lobules of the breast tissue and the growth of progressive connective tissue, and its pathogenesis is mainly due to endocrine hormonal imbalance. Mastocytosis is the most common breast disease in women, and its incidence accounts for the first place in breast diseases. In recent years, the incidence of the disease has been increasing year by year, and the age is getting younger and younger.  According to the survey, about 70% to 80% of women have different degrees of breast hyperplasia, mostly seen in women aged 25 to 45. It is often manifested as single or multiple lumps in different parts of the breast, with soft texture, unclear borders, movable, and often accompanied by varying degrees of pain. Especially before menstruation, after exertion, or during mood swings such as anger (called qi yu in Chinese medicine), the lumps increase in size and the pain worsens, while after menstruation the lumps shrink significantly and the pain decreases. The pain is usually swelling and rarely stabbing. It should be reminded that breast enlargement has the possibility of turning into breast pain, so if you have had breast enlargement for a longer period of time you should go to the hospital for examination so that you can be diagnosed and treated in time.  Modern medicine believes that its occurrence, development and regression are entirely due to hormonal cyclical changes in a woman’s body. When the ovaries secrete too much estrogen and too little luteinizing progesterone, or when these two secretions are not coordinated, it can cause hyperplasia of the epithelial cells and fibrous tissue of the breast ducts in the breast.  Normally, the glandular follicles, ducts and fibrous tissues of the breast of every woman who has reached puberty go through a process of tissue changes of proliferation and recovery during each menstrual cycle. As a result of this change, every woman may experience mild or severe swelling and pain in one or both breasts before each menstruation, and the swelling and pain will disappear naturally after the menstruation, which does not hinder life, study and work at all and is a normal physiological phenomenon.  However, when the body under the action of certain stress factors (such as work is too intense, emotional excitement, unmarried at an advanced age, not breastfeeding after childbirth and suffering from certain chronic diseases, etc.), it is possible that the breast should have recovered the breast hyperplasia tissue does not recover or recovery is incomplete, over time, it will form breast hyperplasia, manifested as thickened breast lobe and nodular particles, breast pain and nipple overflow and other three major symptoms and The three main symptoms and signs are thickened lobes and nodules, breast swelling and pain, and nipple overflow.  According to Chinese medicine, the causes of this disease are mostly related to the dysfunction of the internal organs and the loss of harmony between qi and blood, and the liver and spleen are to blame for the lesions of the internal organs, especially those with weak spleen and earth, or those who eat too much spicy, fatty, sweet and thick food, which damage the spleen and earth, resulting in the malfunction of the spleen and earth to transport and transform, resulting in the collection of dampness as phlegm, or those who are naturally introverted, emotionally repressed, sulking or impatient, easily angered by movement, or those who are injured by the seven emotions and overly worried, resulting in the loss of drainage of the liver, resulting in phlegm, etc., which can This can cause phlegm and dampness to accumulate and stagnate the blood and Qi to form lumps.  If there are no obvious symptoms of mastocytosis, it can be left untreated and can be reviewed regularly.  According to the etiology of mastopathy and the different symptoms of patients, the Chinese medical diagnosis of mastopathy is mainly divided into three main types: Qi stagnation, blood stasis and phlegm coagulation; clinically, the three main treatments are often used to dredge the liver and regulate Qi, activate blood circulation and eliminate stasis, and resolve phlegm and soften hardness. In some patients with deficiencies of the spleen and kidney and other manifestations of deficiencies of positive qi, drugs for the spleen and kidney can be combined to support positive qi and eliminate evil.  Chinese medicine treatment for breast enlargement has obvious effects in relieving symptoms, and some patients’ breast lumps can be significantly reduced or even disappear.