Is enema therapy for pelvic inflammatory disease effective?

Pelvic inflammatory disease is a common gynecological disease. Once it occurs, it needs to be treated promptly, otherwise it is easy to cause other complications and cause more serious injuries. As a relatively common treatment method, the therapeutic effect of enema therapy has become a matter of concern for patients with pelvic inflammatory disease. So, is enema therapy for pelvic inflammatory disease effective? Let’s take a closer look at it below.

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that chronic pelvic inflammatory disease is related to damp-heat stagnation, cold-damp stagnation, spleen deficiency, dampness and stasis, and kidney yang deficiency. Chronic pelvic inflammatory disease is often accompanied by internal obstruction of blood stasis and damage to vital energy. Clinically, symptoms of mixed cold and heat, and mixed deficiency and excess are common. Treatment should be based on syndrome differentiation and treatment according to different symptom types. Medication should be taken orally or applied externally. It can be combined with comprehensive therapies such as Chinese medicine retention enema, Chinese medicine external application to the abdomen, and physical therapy.

The enema prescription consists of: 15g honeysuckle, 15g forsythia, 15g patrinia herb, 10g peach kernel, 15g peony bark, 8g frankincense, 8g myrrh, 10g phellodendron, 15g motherwort, and 30g coix seed. For those with severe damp-heat, add Plantago seed 15g and Gardenia 10g; for those with obvious lumps, add Gleditsia sinensis 15g, Fritillaria thunbergii 15g, Trillium 10g, and Curcuma 10g. Add 500ml of water to the above medicines, soak for 30min, boil it into 100ml, pour it out, add 300-400ml of water again, boil it into 100ml, combine the two decoctions, divide into 2 enema, retain for more than 2h, once a day, 10 times as a course of treatment, stop taking the medicine during menstruation. Take the medicine continuously for 2-3 courses.

For the treatment of pelvic inflammatory disease, diagnosis is very important. So, how is it diagnosed clinically?

The diagnosis of pelvic inflammatory disease requires certain tests:

1. Ultrasound examination: mainly B-type or grayscale ultrasound scanning and filming. This technology has an 85% accuracy in identifying masses or abscesses formed by adhesions of the fallopian tubes, ovaries and intestinal tract, but mild or moderate pelvic inflammatory disease is difficult to show characteristics in B-type ultrasound images.

2. Laparoscopic examination: If it is not diffuse peritonitis and the patient is in general good condition, laparoscopy can be performed on patients with pelvic inflammatory disease or suspected pelvic inflammatory disease and other acute abdominal diseases. Laparoscopy can not only make a clear diagnosis and differential diagnosis, but also make a preliminary judgment on the severity of pelvic inflammatory disease.

The above is an introduction to the effectiveness of enema therapy for pelvic inflammatory disease. I hope it will be helpful to everyone’s understanding. Enema is very effective in treating pelvic inflammatory disease, but this method is rather special. If women don’t like it, they can learn about other ways to treat pelvic inflammatory disease. In short, as long as the method is appropriate, pelvic inflammatory disease is not an incurable gynecological disease.