What are the symptoms of uterine fibroids? What is the view of traditional Chinese medicine on uterine fibroids?

Uterine fibroid disease harms the physical and mental health of many women. Patients not only have to endure the disease, but also the psychological pain. It is conceivable how much harm it has brought to patients. Traditional Chinese medicine has its own views on the causes of uterine fibroids. Traditional Chinese medicine also has its own unique views on the symptoms of uterine fibroids.

According to the different causes of uterine fibroids, TCM divides uterine fibroids into several types, and the symptoms of different types of uterine fibroids are also different. Stagnation of blood is a classification of uterine fibroids in TCM. The symptoms of this type of uterine fibroids are mainly manifested as abnormal menstruation. Mild uterine fibroids have normal menstruation, while severe uterine fibroids will have symptoms of hemorrhage or bleeding. At the same time, it is often accompanied by symptoms such as swollen and painful breasts, swollen or hidden pain in the lower abdomen, anal prolapse, deep red tongue, purple spots, and deep or thin pulse.

Yin deficiency and fire excess syndrome is also a type of uterine fibroids in the classification of uterine fibroids in traditional Chinese medicine. The symptoms of this type of uterine fibroids are that the patient will have hemorrhage or bleeding in the first two days of menstruation. Uterine fibroids patients have burning discomfort in the chest, or a little heat in the lower abdomen, itching or tingling in the nipples, or swelling and pain in the breasts affecting the armpits, and abnormal leucorrhea after menstruation.

These are the TCM understandings of uterine fibroid symptoms, which are not much different from the Western medical understanding. In the TCM concept, uterine fibroid disease is mainly caused by qi stagnation and blood stasis caused by female organ dysfunction. Therefore, when TCM treats uterine fibroid disease, it generally adopts the treatment method of promoting blood circulation and eliminating blood stasis.