What are the symptoms of cervicitis in women? How does traditional Chinese medicine treat cervicitis?

Many women do not take the correct treatment measures after suffering from cervicitis, nor go to the hospital for treatment in time. Knowing the symptoms of cervicitis is very helpful for the treatment of cervicitis.

What are the symptoms of cervicitis?

1. Most women will have abnormal vaginal discharge after suffering from cervicitis. It manifests as increased vaginal discharge and yellowing of vaginal discharge. Some women may have thicker vaginal discharge and may have a strange smell, which is also a common symptom of cervicitis.

2. During the period of cervicitis, irregular bleeding often occurs, manifested as bright red blood, dark red blood, and if the symptoms are more serious, the blood color will be darker. Such bleeding phenomena often manifest as sexual contact bleeding, examination bleeding, etc. If the bleeding is severe and no hemostasis measures are taken, it is easy to cause other diseases.

3. When suffering from cervicitis, pain often occurs, generally manifested as pain during sexual intercourse, pain during examination, lower abdominal pain, lumbar pain, etc. Each patient's condition is different, and the symptoms may vary.

What are the dangers of cervicitis?

1. Affecting the sexual life of couples

Severe cervicitis can cause severe pain or bleeding symptoms during sexual intercourse, which can make women feel disgusted with sexual intercourse and seriously affect the relationship between husband and wife.

2. Induce cervical cancer

According to statistics, the incidence of cervical cancer in women with cervicitis is 10 times higher than that in women without cervicitis.

3. Induce miscarriage

Long-term cervical inflammation can cause changes in cervical tissue, reduce elasticity, and make delivery process difficult.

4. Affects conception

When suffering from cervicitis, the cervical secretions will increase significantly, become thick and contain a large number of white blood cells, which will have an adverse effect on the activity of sperm, hinder sperm from entering the uterine cavity, affect conception, and even cause infertility.

5. Cause multiple complications

After cervicitis, pathogens can ascend to cause endometritis, and can spread through the parauterine ligaments and lymphatic vessels to cause chronic pelvic inflammatory disease. In addition, it can also cause cervical polyps, ectropion and cysts.

How does TCM treat?

There is no doubt that Chinese medicine can treat cervicitis to a certain extent. Cervicitis can be treated by self-treatment, mainly through massage. Rub your palms to warm them up, then use your palms to slowly push the lower abdomen several times, and then use your palms to massage the inner thighs several times. Apply more techniques to the painful areas until you feel the heat. Finally, after rubbing the lumbar sacral area with your palms several times, use the rubbing method for 2 to 3 minutes to transfer the heat to the lower abdomen. There are many commonly used topical compresses in medicine now. Be careful not to abuse them. It is best to do it under the guidance of a doctor.

Traditional Chinese medicine can also be used to treat cervicitis by fumigation and washing. This is a very simple and convenient treatment method. Friends with cervicitis can try it. The specific method is to boil 10g of Phellodendron, 30g of Sophora flavescens, and 30g of Cnidium monnieri in water, first fumigate and then sit bath the genitals, which is suitable for those with thick and yellow leucorrhea; Life care: 2 to 3 days after treatment, there will be a large amount of bloody or yellow watery secretions discharged from the vagina, and sanitary napkins are often used, which usually stop in about 3 weeks. When there is too much vaginal secretion and local discomfort of the vulva is stimulated, the vulva can be cleaned with warm water or 1:5000 potassium permanganate solution, once in the morning and once in the evening.