Dysmenorrhea is one of the most painful diseases for women. Once the attack, the pain is unbearable, mainly caused by physical factors and improper life care. There are some ways to adjust the relief, but there are also many places to pay attention to. So how to treat dysmenorrhea with moxibustion? Can moxibustion treat dysmenorrhea? Let's take a closer look at the methods of treating dysmenorrhea in Chinese medicine.

How does moxibustion treat dysmenorrhea?

Main points:

Guanyuan is 3 inches below the umbilicus, on the ventral line, supine for acupoint selection. When selecting points, you can use the supine position. Guanyuan point is located in the lower abdomen, on the anterior midline. Draw a line from the navel to the top of the pubic bone, divide the line into five equal parts, and three-fifths from the navel, that's the point.

Qihai is located on the midline of the lower abdomen, below the umbilicus 1.5 inch.

Sanyinjiao is on the inside of the calf, 3 inches above the ankle tip of the medial foot and behind the medial edge of the tibia; Kneel and sit at acupoints.

Matching points: Ci, Zhong, Hui, Qu Gu.

During the treatment, the patient first chooses the supine position, lights the moxa stick, and smokes it in the air about 2 cm away from the acupoint, so that the local skin has a burning sensation. Then change to prone position, and treat the secondary or middle points on the back with moxibustion in the same way. Do it once a day.

Acupoint selection is generally used by the main point every day. But you can choose 2 ~ 3 points to rotate every day.

The choice of treatment time generally begins a few days before menstrual cramps and ends a few days after menstruation is clean.

Moxibustion in the treatment of dysmenorrhea is to regulate the body function through the unique smell and warm stimulation of Artemisia argyi leaves, so as to achieve the purpose of relieving uterine muscle reflex spasm, relieving spasm, promoting blood circulation, dredging collaterals and relieving pain. This is what Chinese medicine says: "The general principle does not hurt, but the pain will not work."

2. TCM methods to relieve dysmenorrhea

First, the hot compress method

This method is to let the body relieve pain to some extent through some external things. For example, many female friends know to apply hot water bottles to their stomachs. This hot compress method is particularly effective in relieving physical pain.

Applicable people: people who feel that hot compress of abdomen with hot water bottle can relieve the pain during dysmenorrhea.

Corresponding therapy: this kind of people can soak in hot springs or hot baths on weekdays, each time about 1 hour, which has a good effect on improving pelvic blood circulation. But menstrual period is not suitable for bathing, so at this time, you can press the two horizontal fingers under the navel with your thumb (this is Zhongji point), usually for ten to twenty minutes, which can relieve or eliminate dysmenorrhea.

Second, exercise therapy.

1. Strengthen physical exercise: Especially for people who are physically weak, while using diet to improve nutrition, they can do some light exercise, such as walking.

2, practicing yoga movements: practicing yoga has a soothing effect, such as bending your knees, sitting on your heels, your forehead touching the ground, and your arms reaching your sides. You can also try different postures and find the most comfortable one.

3, dysmenorrhea diet

1, ginger jujube brown sugar water

Ingredients: 30g of ginger, 30g of jujube and 30g of brown sugar.

Practice: wash the first two flavors, chop dried ginger into powder, remove the core of jujube, add brown sugar and fry until cooked, and eat jujube in soup.

Efficacy: It has the effect of warming meridians and dispelling cold. Suitable for cold dysmenorrhea and chloasma.

2, hawthorn cassia twig brown sugar soup

Ingredients: hawthorn meat 15g, cassia twig 5g and brown sugar 30g.

Practice: put hawthorn meat and cassia twig into a casserole, add 2 bowls of clear water, and when it is decocted to L bowl with slow fire, add brown sugar, mix well and boil.

Efficacy: It has the effects of warming meridians, dredging veins, removing blood stasis and relieving pain. It is suitable for women with cold dysmenorrhea and gloomy complexion.

Step 3 drink leek juice and brown sugar

Ingredients: fresh leek 300g, brown sugar100g.

Practice: Wash and drain fresh leeks, chop and mash to get juice for later use. Put brown sugar into aluminum pot, add a little water and bring to a boil. After the sugar is dissolved, it can be eaten by adding it to the leek juice.

Efficacy: it has the effect of warming meridians and benefiting qi. It is suitable for dysmenorrhea with deficiency of both qi and blood, and can make skin ruddy and smooth.

4, ginger barley porridge

Ingredients: dried ginger10g, mugwort leaf10g, and coix seed 30g.

Practice: Boil the first two flavors in water to get juice, cook the coix seed porridge for eight minutes, add ginger and mugwort juice and cook until cooked.

Efficacy: It has the effects of warming channels, removing blood stasis, dispelling cold, removing dampness and moistening skin. It is suitable for dysmenorrhea due to cold-dampness stagnation.

5. Rose tea

Materials: Chinese rose flowers picked in summer or autumn should be replaced by purple half-opened buds with persistent petals and fragrant smell.

Efficacy: It has the effects of promoting qi circulation, promoting blood circulation and moistening skin. Suitable for irregular menstruation and dysmenorrhea.

6, black fungus and red dates.

Ingredients: 30 grams of auricularia auricula and 20 red dates.

Practice: Wash black fungus and red dates. Remove the core of jujube, add water to boil the two flavors, and remove the residue to take.

Efficacy: It has the effects of nourishing the middle energizer, nourishing blood, stopping bleeding, and beautifying the skin. It is suitable for those with menorrhagia, anemia and physical weakness.