What are the causes and treatment of dysmenorrhea

Menstrual pain is a normal reaction of women's physiological period. If it is serious, it will also cause women to faint from pain. What causes dysmenorrhea? How to treat dysmenorrhea? The following is the reason and treatment of dysmenorrhea I sorted out for you. I hope it will be useful to you!

1. Physiological factors. Due to the increase of endometrial prostaglandins, the uterine contraction is excessive or uncoordinated, and the local hypoxia of the uterus leads to the release of peroxide and histamine, causing dysmenorrhea.

2. Psychological factors. The fear and tension caused by the lack of correct understanding of menstruation aggravate dysmenorrhea.

3. Dietary factors. Some girls like to eat snacks. During menstruation, they also eat cold drinks, pears and other raw and cold foods, which is easy to lead to stagnation of Qi and blood. As traditional Chinese medicine says: obstruction leads to pain, which will naturally aggravate dysmenorrhea.

4. Fatigue factors. Excessive physical labor can aggravate bleeding and dysmenorrhea.

5. Cold factors. If you catch cold due to cold weather or too little clothing, you will feel cold evil. It leads to stagnation of Qi and blood and obstruction of meridians, which aggravates dysmenorrhea.

1. Dietotherapy

Improve your health by eating more food. For example, during menstruation, women should supplement some foods conducive to "water travel", such as apples, mutton, chicken, brown sugar, red dates, tofu skin, coix seed, milk, motherwort, angelica longan isothermal tonic. In order to maintain nutritional balance, fresh vegetables and fruits should be eaten at the same time. In this special period, we should take more tonic and drink more tonic soup, such as black chicken soup, and avoid eating food that stimulates coolness.

2. Drug therapy

Analgesic, sedative and antispasmodic drugs can inhibit the peripheral parasympathetic nervous system.

3. Oral contraceptives

The combined treatment of estrogen and progesterone in contraceptives can also inhibit ovulation and eliminate dysmenorrhea.

For patients with dysmenorrhea, in addition to paying attention to behavioral care at ordinary times, such as wearing clothes to keep warm during menstruation and not touching or less cold water, dietary care is also very important for dysmenorrhea. Girls with dysmenorrhea should pay attention to the following aspects of diet:

  1. Reduce the intake of cold diet: such as iced drinks and cold water; Amount of cold food, seafood and cold fruits such as watermelon, grape, pear and navel orange.

  2. Add warm food. Meat such as beef, mutton, dog meat and chicken can be stewed with ginger, tangerine peel, medlar and red ginseng.

Premenstrual diet:

A. ginger and pepper water: 10g ginger, 7 white pepper seeds and 3 tablespoons brown sugar. Half a bowl of cold water, boil over a low fire for 3min, leave the fire, filter out the sugar soup and discard the residue. Take hot clothes during menstruation, 1-2 times a day.

B. Hawthorn brown sugar water: Hawthorn meat 15g, brown sugar 30g. Fry the hawthorn with two bowls of water over low heat until one bowl, add brown sugar and burn it for a while, and take it hot immediately.

C. donkey hide gelatin paste: 100g yellow rice wine, 20g donkey hide gelatin, appropriate amount of brown sugar, dissolve it with appropriate amount of warm boiled water, boil it for 5min after all donkey hide gelatin is dissolved, take the soup and take it while it is hot, drink it 1-2 times a day for 2-3 days, and the effect is better when dysmenorrhea occurs.

D. rose soup: three rose flowers, appropriate amount of yellow rice wine and brown sugar. Add water and simmer, remove the residue, and add an appropriate amount of brown sugar and yellow rice wine. Warm clothes once a day. It can activate Qi and blood circulation, and is suitable for qi stagnation, blood stasis, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea.

E. ginger jujube brown sugar soup: take 30g dried ginger, 30g brown sugar and 30g jujube, take it in water decoction and take it twice a day. This prescription should be used for cold dampness stagnation dysmenorrhea.

F. Angelica black chicken soup: 1 black chicken, 100g angelica, 30g Astragalus and 5 pieces of ginger. Cut the black chicken into pieces and stew it with Angelica sinensis, Astragalus membranaceus and ginger. Add salt and seasoning, eat meat and drink soup.

  4. Drug choice: for those who are cold, you can eat more Wuji Baifeng pills, Aifu Nuangong pills, Panax notoginseng capsules, etc. for those who are angry, you can eat more Jiawei Xiaoyao pills, which can be bought in pharmacies.

  5. Moxibustion on Guanyuan point: Guanyuan point is three inches below the umbilicus and the width of the four horizontal fingers of the same body. It belongs to Ren pulse. Ren pulse originates from the cell palace. Moxibustion Guanyuan can well improve various symptoms of palace cold, including dysmenorrhea. Moxibustion for 20 minutes every day or every other day will soon improve symptoms.