Why does the left side of a woman's belly button hurt?

If female friends feel pain on the left side of their belly button, they should find out the cause of the pain. Some people actually suffer from external force hitting their belly button, or other external reasons cause female friends to have considerable pain and cannot get any relief at all. The most important thing is to go to the hospital for a series of examinations to know the specific cause of the real pain.

It is caused by excessive contraction of the smooth muscles of the hollow abdominal organs or stretching and expansion due to increased intracavitary pressure. Pain sensation is transmitted from visceral sensory nerve endings to spinal nerve afferent centers.

Pain felt on the surface or deep inside the corresponding nerve segments when there is a disease in the abdominal organs. There is also radiating pain in distant parts of the body.

Abdominal pain is one of the common clinical symptoms, which can be acute or chronic. Its etiology is complex and most of them are organic, but they can also be functional. They are mostly caused by lesions of intra-abdominal organs, but they can also be caused by lesions of extra-abdominal organs. Therefore, comprehensive considerations should be made during diagnosis, and the medical history and various examination results should be analyzed in detail.

Periumbilical pain refers to abdominal pain centered around the umbilicus. It is common in various gastrointestinal diseases and is an important sign of gastrointestinal inflammation, ulcers, and tumors. Pain that is limited to the area around the belly is more common and needs to be carefully distinguished.

① Participate in cultural and sports activities appropriately, actively exercise, enhance physical fitness and prevent diseases.

② Try not to eat foods that you may be intolerant to, such as shrimp, crab, milk, peanuts, etc. Spicy, frozen, greasy, raw and cold foods, as well as tobacco and alcohol should be avoided. At the same time, avoid intestinal irritation caused by laxatives and physical and chemical factors. Eat a regular amount, don’t be too hungry or too full, and develop good living habits.

③This disease often occurs when one is burdened with heavy thoughts, is emotionally tense, anxious, angry, depressed, etc. Therefore, avoiding mental stimulation, relieving tension and maintaining an optimistic attitude are the keys to preventing this disease.

Lower abdominal pain, a symptom. Pain in the lower abdomen. From "Suwen·Theory of Zangqi and Shiji". The lower abdomen is the place of the most yin, and belongs to the Jueyin. Lower abdominal pain should be differentiated into qi, blood, cold, heat, deficiency and treated accordingly.

For qi stagnation, use Simo Decoction; for blood stasis, disperse it with hands; for cold depression, use Erchen Decoction plus dried ginger, Evodia rutaecarpa, Atractylodes macrocephala, and Magnolia officinalis; for heat depression, use Sini Powder plus Coptis chinensis, Gardenia safflower, Cyperus rotundus, and Scutellaria baicalensis; for deep cold, use Lizhong Decoction plus Aconitum carmichaelii, Cinnamon bark, Evodia rutaecarpa, and Fennel; for qi deficiency, use Erchen Decoction plus Cimicifuga heracleifolia, Bupleurum chinense, dried ginger, and Angelica sinensis; for sexual intercourse when drunk and full, and lower abdominal distension and pain, use Angelica sinensis, Paeonia lactiflora, Ligusticum chuanxiong, Bupleurum chinense, Citrus aurantium, Evodia rutaecarpa, and Licorice root.