If menstruation is delayed for more than 7 days and more than 3 consecutive cycles, it may be caused by blood deficiency, kidney deficiency, or cold deficiency.
If the menstrual cycle is prolonged for more than 7 days, or even 3 to 5 months in a row, and there are more than 3 consecutive cycles, then it is called late menstruation. If you are in perimenopause or within 1 year after the first menstrual period in puberty, the cycle is delayed from time to time without other symptoms, it will not be regarded as a disease.
Blood deficiency can be caused by weakness of the body, insufficiency of blood, or excessive childbirth, which depletes yin and blood, leading to deficiency of blood, insufficiency of Chong Ren, and failure of the sea of blood to overflow on time, thus causing the menstrual cycle to be delayed.
Kidney deficiency is caused by the lack of innate kidney qi, or the damage to kidney qi due to excessive labor and childbirth, resulting in kidney deficiency, loss of essence and blood, insufficiency of Chong Ren, and the sea of blood not being able to overflow on time, thus causing the menstrual cycle to arrive at a later stage.
Deficiency and cold is due to the body of yang deficiency, or long-term illness injury to the yang, yang deficiency and internal cold, resulting in the loss of warmth in the internal organs, the lack of qi and blood production, the sea of blood to fill the delay, thus resulting in the late menstruation.
In addition to this, phlegm-dampness and Qi stagnation can also cause late menstruation. If you have late menstruation, it is recommended to go to the hospital as soon as possible, do not blindly deal with it.