Patients with chronic pelvic inflammatory disease should receive symptomatic dietary therapy

Traditional Chinese medicine can classify chronic pelvic inflammatory disease into qi stagnation and blood stasis type, liver and kidney yin deficiency type, spleen and kidney yang deficiency type, etc. according to the patient's clinical manifestations. Appropriate diet therapy based on the classification can play an auxiliary treatment role.

Qi stagnation and blood stasis type

Clinical manifestations: Patients often present with lower abdominal stabbing pain or distending pain, pain radiating to the lumbosacral region, lower abdominal mass, pain when pressed, heavy vaginal discharge, irregular menstruation, dark color with clots. The tongue has dark edges with petechiae, thin white fur, and a stringy and thin pulse.

Diet therapy: 1. Hawthorn, bergamot, and bitter endive. Add water and decoct. Take 1 dose per day for 7 to 8 consecutive doses. 2. Patrinia, bergamot, and rose, decoct in water. Take 1 dose per day for 5 to 6 consecutive days.

Liver and kidney yin deficiency

Clinical manifestations: dull pain in the lower abdomen, heavy vaginal discharge, yellow, sticky and fishy smell. Accompanied by soreness of waist and knees, dizziness or early menstruation, light red in color. Red tongue with little coating, and weak and rapid pulse.

Diet therapy: 1. Raw earth and polished rice. Wash and slice the raw earth, boil it twice with water, and take 100 ml of juice in total. Cook the polished rice into porridge, add the medicinal juice when it is 80% cooked, and cook until cooked. Eat the porridge, which can be taken for several days. 2. Pigeon eggs and donkey-hide gelatin. First put the donkey-hide gelatin in a bowl, add an appropriate amount of clean water, roast it on a smokeless fire, and add the pigeon eggs while it is hot and mix well. Eat it twice in the morning and evening, and can be taken continuously until the disease is cured.

Spleen and Kidney Yang Deficiency

Clinical manifestations: abdominal distension, dull pain, heavy and thin vaginal discharge, accompanied by sore waist and weak limbs, chills and cold limbs, and facial swelling. Pale tongue, fat body, thin white fur, and deep and fine pulse.

Diet therapy: 1. Cook leek roots, eggs, and sugar together to make soup and take it for several days. 2. Cook walnut kernels, Euryale ferox, lotus seeds, and glutinous rice to make porridge and eat it regularly.