Prolapsed uterus is called yin ting (prolapse of the uterus or even prolapse from the vaginal opening) in Chinese medicine, and there are prescriptions for treating yin ting in the elderly, such as internal Chinese medicine prescriptions such as the Dajian Yuan Decoction with additions and subtractions; and external use of alum, snakeskin, and other traditional Chinese medicines such as fumigation.
The most common causes of vaginal stiffness are excessive damage to qi and blood at the time of childbirth, weakness of the body, atrophy and degeneration of the pelvic floor tissues in old age, resulting in qi deficiency and subsidence or kidney deficiency; other causes such as external dampness and heat can also lead to vaginal stiffness. Treatment can be internal Chinese medicine prescription, external Chinese medicine fumigation treatment, according to the clinical diagnosis of medication.
1. Chinese medicine prescription for internal use:
(1) Qi deficiency and subsidence type: it is caused by excessive damage to qi and blood due to various reasons, and it is mainly used to tonify the middle and benefit the qi (treating qi deficiency by tonifying the spleen), and to raise yang and lift the subsidence (lifting up the yang qi of the body in order to lift up the subsidence organs). Commonly used Chinese herbal formulas include tonifying the middle and benefiting the qi and adding subtractions to tonify the middle and benefiting the qi.
(2) Kidney qi deficiency: common causes such as atrophy and degeneration of pelvic floor tissues in elderly patients, caused by weakness of the body, tonifying the kidneys to consolidate and lift the qi. Commonly used Chinese medicine prescription such as Dajianyuan Decoction plus or minus.
(3) Damp-heat injection (dampness and heat invading the intestines, bladder, pubic area, lower limbs, etc.): it is caused by damp-heat invading the liver and gallbladder organs and meridians, and it is mainly used to clear damp-heat in the liver and gallbladder. Commonly used Chinese medicine prescription such as gentian diarrhea bile soup plus reduction.
2. Chinese medicine external washing: yin ting with traditional Chinese medicine fumigation, in order to solid astringent astringent, ascending and lifting Xin scattered, commonly used traditional Chinese medicine, such as alum, snake bed seed, five times the hedgehog shell.
Elderly yin ting to kidney qi deficiency type mostly, specific according to the condition of the doctor’s prescription medication, do not self-medication, to avoid causing adverse consequences.