Sudden menstrual flow is less and lasts longer

Women attach great importance to menstruation. Excessive or insufficient menstrual flow, early or delayed menstrual cycle, etc. all represent problems. Some women may suddenly experience a small amount of menstrual flow and a long duration. This requires adjusting their living habits and paying attention to their diet. It may be endocrine tension caused by excessive fatigue or stress. In life, you should pay attention to keeping warm and eat less cold food. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, there are many types of scanty menstruation, and different types require different treatment plans.

How to regulate if your menstrual flow is suddenly less and lasts longer:

1. Pay attention to your diet.

About a week before menstruation, women should avoid eating raw, cold, spicy and irritating foods. They can drink more water, consume foods rich in fiber, and keep their bowel movements smooth. You can regulate your body by drinking brown sugar water during menstruation.

2. Eliminate fatigue.

If the body is overworked, the functions of the body's organs will be affected and the metabolism will be adversely affected. Therefore, during menstruation, women should avoid intense and prolonged exercise, pay attention to rest, ensure sleep, maintain a regular lifestyle, and avoid staying up late.

3. Keep warm.

In addition to avoiding eating raw or cold food, women with light menstrual flow should avoid exposure to cold water, especially cold showers during menstruation. If you sit in an air-conditioned room for a long time, it is best to put on a thin blanket and keep warm to avoid catching cold.

4. Pay attention to hygiene.

Women should pay attention to the cleanliness of their external genitalia on a daily basis, especially during menstruation, they should pay attention to cleaning the vulva in time to prevent infection. Choose soft, cotton, and well-ventilated underwear, wash and change it frequently, and dry it in the sun.

5. Do not have sex during menstruation.

Relax. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that feeling stuffy can easily cause liver depression and qi stagnation, thereby reducing menstrual flow. Negative emotions such as excessive mental stimulation, tension, and sadness can lead to endocrine disorders and cause menstrual abnormalities, so we must maintain a good and positive attitude towards life every day.

What are the reasons for long menstrual period with little flow?

1. Irregular menstruation caused by endocrine disorders leads to prolonged and scanty menstruation.

2.

Small amount of menstrual blood and long duration are caused by low estrogen levels. In your life, you can stew some brown sugar ginger tea, avoid eating spicy or icy things, avoid getting cold, apply a hot water bottle to your lower abdomen, and don't worry too much. You can also take Chinese patent medicine Qixue and capsules to regulate menstruation. This is a traditional Chinese medicine preparation with a relatively good reputation. It is quite effective in treating irregular menstruation and other related symptoms. "

3. There are many reasons for scanty menstruation, such as endocrine disorders, abnormal hormone secretion or anovulation, gynecological inflammation, changes in mental environment, anemia, etc. In addition, it may be due to the endometrium itself, such as endometrial tuberculosis causing endometrial lesions or artificial abortion, curettage causing thin endometrium, etc. Long-term scanty menstruation may cause amenorrhea or infertility. It is recommended that you go to the hospital for endocrine and B-ultrasound examinations for further diagnosis.

How to regulate scanty menstruation:

1. Do not eat raw or cold food one week before menstruation (this is something you must pay attention to). For people with normal menstruation, there is nothing wrong with eating raw or cold food before or during menstruation, but for people with irregular menstruation, you must pay attention to this.

2. Drink a cup of boiled water with brown sugar every day when your period comes.

3. It is best not to overwork yourself during menstruation.

4. A person’s mood and stress will affect the normality of menstruation, so try not to let yourself be too depressed.

5. Generally speaking, foreign physiological health products for regulating menstruation and treating endocrine disorders are more reliable.

6. It is best not to use cold water when menstruating. Generally speaking, you can use cold water when menstruating, but for people with irregular menstruation, it is best not to use cold water!

7. Menstrual irregularities must be treated, otherwise such abnormal menstruation may lead to infertility in the future (of course, infertility is not necessarily caused by irregular menstruation).

In fact, scanty menstruation can be divided into four categories:

1. Blood deficiency type. The menstrual flow is scanty or stops with a few drops, the color is light, there is dizziness, palpitations and weakness, sallow complexion, and a feeling of emptiness in the lower abdomen. The tongue is pale and the pulse is thin.

2. Kidney deficiency type. Menstruation is scanty and light in color, waist and knee pain, heel pain, dizziness, tinnitus, and frequent urination. The tongue is pale, and the pulse is deep, thready and weak.

3. Blood stasis type. The menstrual period is scanty and purple in color with small blood clots. The lower abdomen is swollen and painful and resists pressure. The pain is relieved after the blood clots are discharged. The tongue is dark purple and the pulse is sluggish.

4. Phlegm-dampness type. The menstrual volume is scanty, light red in color, and sticky like phlegm. The body is obese, and there is chest tightness, nausea, and a lot of sticky discharge. The tongue is fat, the tongue coating is white and greasy, and the pulse is slippery.

Chinese medicine differentiation:

1. Based on syndrome differentiation

Kidney deficiency and blood deficiency

For late menstruation and scanty menstrual flow, traditional theory holds that syndrome differentiation should be based on deficiency and excess, where deficiency includes kidney deficiency, blood deficiency, yin deficiency, and yang deficiency. There is cold stagnation, qi obstruction, and phlegm stagnation. Based on my long-term clinical experience, I believe that although scanty menstruation in the late menstrual period can be divided into deficiency and excess, deficiency is the main symptom, and kidney deficiency, blood deficiency, and Chong and Ren disorders are the main pathogenesis.

2. Treatment: Regulating the kidney and replenishing essence to cure the root cause

Nourish the blood, replenish qi and nourish its source. In response to the above-mentioned pathogenesis and syndrome differentiation, I have formulated a treatment method based on regulating the kidney and replenishing essence, warming and moistening the menstruation, nourishing blood and replenishing qi, based on the basic formula for regulating menstruation, with additions and subtractions to the formula.

3. Comprehensive understanding: ovulation can also remove phlegm and dampness, and promote blood circulation and dredge meridians

In the late menstrual period, the menstrual volume is small. Modern medicine generally believes that it is related to poor follicular development or anovulation. Therefore, ovulation induction is the main part of menstruation regulation treatment. In addition to the basic prescriptions of regulating the kidney and benefiting the essence, nourishing the blood and invigorating qi, I believe that the medication should be added or subtracted according to the patient's physical factors, and the patient should be able to use a comprehensive and dialectical approach to use products that can promote ovulation. If the patient is obese and has a lot of phlegm, or is hairy, expectorant drugs should be added or subtracted to remove phlegm, eliminate dampness and unclog the meridians; if phlegm and dampness turn into heat or if there is exogenous damp-heat, products that clear away heat, eliminate dampness and unclog the meridians should be added appropriately; if the patient is depressed and irritable by nature, products that soothe the liver and unclog the meridians should be added; products that promote blood circulation and unclog the meridians can be used in the middle of the menstrual period or throughout the entire period.