All women who experience cyclical abdominal pain during and around their menstrual periods are referred to as "dysmenorrhea". From the perspective of Western medicine, some dysmenorrhea is primary, that is, no specific lesion can be found; and some dysmenorrhea is secondary, caused by specific gynecological diseases.

Chinese medicine, on the other hand, has broadly categorized the etiology and pathogenesis of dysmenorrhea into four categories:

1. Qi stagnation and blood stasis, mainly due to emotional discomfort, liver depression and stagnation of qi, obstruction of blood flow, menstrual blood stagnation in the cells to produce abdominal pain; it may also be the post-partum blood flow, storage and stagnation, and not through the pain, resulting in menstrual cramps.

2, cold and damp stagnation evidence, is due to live in the wetlands for a long time, or due to menstrual rain, or post-partum by the dampness, resulting in the cold and dampness in the uterus, the blood for the cold condensation, cold condensation and dampness stagnation, menstruation when the congestion of qi and blood, not through the pain.

3, dampness and heat condensation evidence, is due to menstruation, postpartum, the evil of dampness and heat invasion, or internal dampness and heat and blood knot, dampness and heat condensation and blockage of the uterus, thus causing dysmenorrhea.

4, liver and kidney deficiency, because of the ordinary body weakness, or more birth room labor, or after a serious illness, damage to the liver and kidney, qi and blood deficiency, the cells and veins of the loss of nourishment, does not honor the pain.

According to Chinese medicine practitioners, it is necessary to recognize the time, degree and nature of the onset of pain, and to distinguish between cold, heat, deficiency and solidity in order to treat the symptoms. Pain in the premenstrual or menstrual period, most of the real evidence; pain in the postmenstrual period, most of the deficiency; pain is more intense, most of the real evidence; hidden pain, most of the deficiency; stinging pain is more for blood stasis, distension of pain is more for qi stagnation; cold pain, heat pain, most of the cold, burning pain, heat pain, most of the heat evidence.

Based on the above principles, the etiology and mechanism of dysmenorrhea can be identified, and only then can the right medicine be prescribed and the dysmenorrhea be treated.

The pain of dysmenorrhea has the same pathogenesis as the fear of his pain. Not through is pain, not honor is pain. Not pass and blood deficiency phlegm dampness most common, stagnation of qi and blood stasis, deficiency of qi and blood, cold blood stasis, write these are the most common cause of dysmenorrhea mechanism. Of course, the cause of the disease is caused by emotional stagnation of qi, qi depression, life and diet caused by cold condensation, long-term bad habits caused by deficiency ~ ~ ~ ~ these are the causes of the disease!

Dysmenorrhea is a self-conscious symptom. Dysmenorrhea refers to abdominal pain during and around menstruation, low back pain, or even severe pain. Dysmenorrhea can be divided into primary dysmenorrhea and secondary dysmenorrhea.
Etiology: The main pathology of this disease is poor qi and blood circulation, divided into two categories: deficiency and reality.

I. Empirical evidence.

(i) Qi stagnation and blood stasis: Liver qi is not comfortable and qi is unfavorable, so qi is unable to transport blood, causing menstrual blood to stagnate in the cells and cause pain.

(ii) Cold and dampness stagnation: When it rains during menstruation, when it is cold when wading in water, or when it lives in the wetland for a long time and eats too much cold during menstruation, cold and dampness are injured in the lower jiao, and in the uterus, and the menstrual blood is condensed by cold and dampness, and it does not run smoothly and becomes painful.

(iii) Blood-heat stasis: inflammation of the uterus itself and inflammation of organs near the pelvis, prolonged fever, heat makes the blood boil, heat also injures the yin, and yin depletion makes the blood stagnate.

II, Void evidence.

Weakness of qi and blood, insufficient qi and blood in normal times, or damage to qi and blood after a long illness, weak menstrual blood can also lead to dysmenorrhea.

III. Points of defense.

(i) This disease is characterized by pain in the abdomen, and the dialectic is different because of the different times of pain; premenstrual pain is mostly a real evidence, menstrual pain is either false or real, and postmenstrual pain is mostly a false evidence.

(ii) Location of the pain: the middle of the abdomen for cold-dampness stagnation, both sides of the abdomen or one side, sometimes involving the back of the chest and hypochondrium for qi stagnation and blood stasis.

(iii) Nature of pain: stabbing pain for blood stasis, colic pain for cold; vague pain for deficiency, continuous pain for blood stagnation, pain stopping at times for qi stagnation; pain heavier than distension for blood stasis, distension more than pain for qi stagnation; heat pain for heat, pain reduction for cold; refusal to press for solid evidence, pleasure in pressing for false evidence.

(iv) Color of menstrual blood: pale blood is deficiency, purple is blood heat, and black is heavy heat.

As the old saying goes, nine out of ten menstrual cramps have stasis, that is to say, menstrual cramps are basically caused by menstrual stasis, and most of the people who have menstrual stasis have kidney yang deficiency, and most of these people are fond of heat and afraid of cold. When you have menstrual cramps, drink some water boiled with brown sugar and dried ginger, and you will get temporary relief, why do I say that I have to use dried ginger? Because dry ginger is the mother ginger, mother ginger heat than the fresh ginger, the effect will be better, of course, no mother ginger with fresh ginger can be. However, if you want a radical cure, you still need to take traditional Chinese medicines to replenish kidney yang deficiency, to replenish kidney yang, together with the method of moving qi and removing blood stasis, so as to never recur.