Moxibustion for treating uterine cold and infertility

Uterine cold is a disease name in traditional Chinese medicine, which is mainly caused by insufficient kidney yang in women. It is a series of symptoms, not an independent disease, and has no corresponding disease in Western medicine. Uterine cold can cause serious harm, the most serious of which is infertility. When it comes to the occurrence of uterine cold infertility, the treatment method is what patients are most concerned about. Moxibustion has a certain effect in treating uterine cold infertility. Let’s take a look at the specific methods below.

1. Guanyuan acupoint

Guanyuan point is three inches below the navel. Moxibustion on Guanyuan point can enhance the body's yang energy and replenish deficiency and benefit loss. It is more effective for symptoms such as insufficient Yang Qi, physical weakness and fear of cold, and has the effect of nourishing the essence and strengthening the foundation, and replenishing the lower part of the body.

2. Shenque Point

It is located at the navel, and is a key acupoint on the Ren Meridian of the human body. When the body's Qi, blood, Yin and Yang are out of balance and disease occurs, stimulation or application of medicine to the Shenque point can help adjust the balance of Yin and Yang.

3. Qihai Point

This point is located in the lower abdomen of the human body, with a straight line connecting the navel and the top of the pubic bone, dividing it into ten equal parts, starting from the 3/10 position of the navel. Moxibustion on this point can prevent and treat irregular menstruation, metrorrhagia and infertility.

In addition, you can also press and rub this point. The operator can lie on his back, put the palms of both hands together (right hand on top, left hand on the bottom) and place them on the lower abdomen, and then perform circular massage on the abdomen in a clockwise direction. You can massage 100 circles each time, until you feel warmth in the lower abdomen. This recipe has the effect of nourishing the kidneys and replenishing qi.

Moxibustion should be performed for 30-40 minutes every day, generally not more than an hour. If it is performed for too long, you will easily feel dry mouth and tongue, and even cause constipation. In addition, if moxibustion is performed for a long time, blisters will appear on the local skin. Chinese medicine believes that this is a sign of therapeutic effect, but you must pay attention to skin care to avoid infection after the blisters break.

4. Mingmen Point

Between the second and third lumbar spinous processes, as well as the kidney points on both sides 3 cm away from the midline of the back. Moxibustion at the Mingmen acupoint can strengthen the kidneys and consolidate the body, and treat female menstrual disorders and habitual abortion due to deficiency and cold.

In addition, massaging this point yourself can also have a good effect. The operator can take a prone position, clench both hands into fists, put them behind the waist, press the Yaoyan acupoint with the protruding joint of the thumb, and massage it with a little force. You can massage it 50 times each time (making the Yaoyan acupoint feel sore and swollen, the effect will be more lasting). Then, press the palms of your hands tightly on both sides of your waist, and rub your waist quickly and vigorously in the up and down direction until the skin on your waist becomes warm. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that "the waist is the home of the kidneys" and insisting on massaging the waist acupoints every night can have a good effect of invigorating qi and strengthening the kidneys.

Uterine cold care

The treatment of uterine cold mainly involves adjustments in lifestyle and eating habits:

1. Keep warm, especially in the cold winter. It is not good to be beautiful and freeze yourself.

2. In terms of diet, avoid eating raw and cold foods, eat less cold foods such as cabbage, white radish, green tea, etc., and eat more warming foods, such as lamb stewed with black fungus powder, dog meat, leeks, walnuts, longan, dates, peanuts, etc.

3. In case of severe uterine cold, you can take some nourishing Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine is safe and has no side effects. For example, deer placenta paste is very effective in warming the uterus and dispelling cold. According to historical records, Zhang Zhongjing's "Prescriptions for Treating Women"

It was mentioned in Chinese medicine that deer placenta paste can replenish qi and blood, nourish kidney yang, warm the uterus, warm the meridians and dispel cold, promote qi and relieve pain, activate blood circulation and regulate menstruation, and delay menstruation.

4. Women with uterine cold should develop a good habit of soaking their feet every night. Soaking feet in hot water for half an hour every night can also help dispel the cold if they persist in doing so all year round.

5. People with "uterine cold" should also increase their exercise appropriately. Generally speaking, people with uterine cold tend to be quiet and steady, and they easily feel tired if they exercise too much. In fact, "movement generates yang", and people with cold constitutions especially need to improve their constitution through exercise. Brisk walking is the easiest way. Walking, especially walking on cobblestone roads, can stimulate the meridians and acupoints on the soles of the feet, dredge the meridians, regulate qi and blood, improve blood circulation, and warm the whole body.