How to check for uterine cold

Uterine coldness is very harmful to women. Dysmenorrhea, infertility, abdominal pain, etc. are all caused by uterine coldness. There are many causes of uterine cold, long-term use of air conditioning, excessive weight loss, and continuous cold food are the three most common factors. Because uterine cold is not an independent disease, but a symptom under the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, it is sometimes difficult to identify. So, how do you detect uterine cold? Now let's look at the diagnostic methods.

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This can be confirmed through a combination of the four diagnostic methods of traditional Chinese medicine: observation, auscultation, questioning and palpation. Observation: pale or bluish complexion, slightly fat body, dull tongue, white tongue coating; Smell: leucorrhea is thin and odorless, menstrual blood is dull in color and has no peculiar smell; Question: irregular menstruation, miscarriage, lochia, infertility, various gynecological pains, cold pain in the lower abdomen all over the body, pain relieved by heat, fear of cold, cold hands and feet, sore waist and back, lack of libido, loose stools, etc.; Pulse: deep and moist pulse.

Clinical manifestations

Due to different causes and different stages of the disease, uterine cold can have many different clinical manifestations in women's menstruation, pregnancy, breastfeeding, miscellaneous diseases, etc. For example, the manifestations of menstrual diseases include: scanty and delayed menstruation, amenorrhea, menstrual edema, menstrual diarrhea, dysmenorrhea; the manifestations of pregnancy diseases include: threatened abortion, habitual abortion, ectopic pregnancy, etc.; the manifestations of lactation diseases include: prolonged lochia, postpartum abdominal pain, etc.; the manifestations of gynecological miscellaneous diseases include: chronic pelvic pain, endometriosis, vaginitis, infertility, etc. Other systemic manifestations of coldness determined by traditional Chinese medicine may include cold pain in the lower abdomen, pain relieved by heat, fear of cold, cold hands and feet, sore and cold waist, loss of libido, loose stools, pale tongue, white tongue coating, and deep and moist pulse.

Differential Diagnosis

It is important to differentiate between real cold and false cold. Clinically, both deficiency-cold and excess-cold belong to cold syndrome, but because of differences in etiology, pathogenesis, and clinical manifestations, there are also differences in treatment, especially in medication. Deficiency-cold refers to the lack of Yang in the body, which causes coldness from within, meaning "Yang deficiency leads to external coldness". It is due to the deficiency of Yang Qi in the body, the weakened warming biochemical ability, the body cannot be warmed, and the symptoms of cold syndrome appear, which falls within the scope of Yang deficiency syndrome. Real cold refers to the external cold evil, which causes excessive cold in the body, damaging the Yang Qi and causing symptoms of cold. When Yin and cold are prevalent, excessive Yin leads to cold, which means "excessive Yin leads to internal coldness". If there are pain symptoms, there will be a common characteristic that the pain will be relieved after warmth, but there are also differences: real cold causes severe pain that is resistant to pressure; false cold causes dull pain that is relieved by rubbing and pressing. Real cold is the actual evidence of cold air invading the human body, which can be seen in cold hands and feet, pale complexion, and tasteless mouth. Deficiency and coldness are accompanied by the decline of the functions of various internal organs, and are often accompanied by symptoms such as fatigue, lack of energy, poor appetite, loose stools, and scanty menstruation.