TCM Syndrome Differentiation of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease

Pelvic inflammatory disease is a common gynecological disease in daily life. It often harms women's physical and mental health with symptoms such as irregular menstruation, abdominal pain, and bloating. Experts say that Chinese medicine believes that pelvic inflammatory disease is mostly caused by women's weak constitution and stagnation of qi and blood. Next, let's learn about the Chinese medicine classification of pelvic inflammatory disease.

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, pelvic inflammatory disease can be divided into five types: heat toxicity type, damp-heat type, damp-heat stasis type, blood stasis type, and Chong-Ren deficiency-cold type. Each type of pelvic inflammatory disease has different symptoms.

Heat toxicity type: Women often have symptoms such as high fever, chills, headache, lower abdominal pain, etc.; the tongue coating is yellow and the tongue is red; the pulse is slippery or stringy; the amount of leucorrhea is like pus and has a foul odor; the urine is yellow and there is constipation.

Damp-heat type: Women often have low fever, lower abdominal pain and burning sensation; red tongue, yellow and greasy coating, slippery and rapid pulse; dry mouth and no desire to drink; vaginal discharge of large amount, yellow and thick texture, or a mixture of red and yellow.

Damp-heat stasis type: Women often have symptoms of lower abdominal distension and pain, bitter and dry mouth; dark red tongue, yellow or white fur, stringy or rapid pulse; thick yellow vaginal discharge, turbid urine, dry and hard stool

Blood stasis type: Women have persistent pain in the lower abdomen that refuses to be pressed, or have irregular menstruation, or have heavy flow with clots; the tongue is dark purple, or has ecchymosis, the tongue coating is thin, and the pulse is deep, stringy or astringent.

Chong and Ren deficiency-cold type: Women have cold pain in the lower abdomen, like warmth and pressure, are afraid of cold and have cold limbs; the tongue is pale, the tongue coating is thin white, and the pulse is deep and fine; the vaginal discharge is large in amount and white in color with thin content.

Through the above explanation of pelvic inflammatory disease, we can know that there are five types of pelvic inflammatory disease in traditional Chinese medicine, namely, heat toxicity type, damp-heat type, damp-heat stasis type, blood stasis type and Chong-Ren deficiency-cold type. Experts remind that female friends who suffer from pelvic inflammatory disease should pay special attention to their daily diet, and must not eat spicy and irritating foods, and must not drink cold water.