Can Chinese medicine cure uterine fibroids?

With the development and progress of science, people have a good understanding of various diseases. At the same time, many people do not know much about uterine fibroids, and gradually think that uterine fibroids are an incurable disease and a common cancer. However, most middle-aged women nowadays may face the dangers of uterine fibroids after menopause. Can Chinese medicine cure uterine fibroids? How can it help uterine fibroids?

TCM classification of uterine fibroids

Uterine fibroids are not easy to detect clinically. Most of them have no special symptoms and can usually only be found during pelvic examination. The tumor usually does not exceed the size of the uterine body in the third trimester of pregnancy. Clinically divided into:

(1) Qi stagnation and blood stasis type: Symptoms include premature menstruation or amenorrhea, prolonged menstruation, continuous spotting, heavy bleeding, dysmenorrhea, increased leucorrhea, premenstrual breast or lower abdominal distension and pain, chest and flank discomfort, depression, and petechiae on the tongue.

(2) Yin deficiency and liver hyperactivity type: Symptoms include heavy menstrual flow, prolonged menstruation, red menstruation with blood clots, dizziness, palpitations, irritability, insomnia, back pain and yellow urine.

(3) Qi and blood deficiency type: heavy menstrual flow, prolonged menstrual period, pale tongue, fatigue, sallow or pale complexion, dizziness, palpitations, and loose stools.

(4) Liver depression and Qi stagnation type: irregular menstruation, prolonged bleeding, pain in the chest, ribs and lower abdomen, dizziness, headache, depression, irritability, insomnia, and poor digestion.

(5) Damp-heat descending type: heavy vaginal discharge, pain and distension in the lower abdomen, fever, and low back pain.

Traditional medicine treats it by soothing the liver and regulating Qi, regulating the Chong and Ren meridians to support its normal state, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, softening and dispersing nodules and eliminating evil, so that the disease can be cured by itself.

Three Chinese medicine prescriptions for uterine fibroids

【Prescription 1】

[Ingredients] 15g raw astragalus, 10g each of whole angelica, raw poria, raw white peony root, Corydalis yanhusuo and Toosendan fruit.

[Additions and subtractions] For those with excessive dampness, add Phellodendron chinense, raw coix seed, Dioscorea opposita, and Plantago seed; for those with hyperactive liver, add chrysanthemum, Gardenia jasminoides, powdered moutan bark, and scorched gardenia; for those with palpitations and shortness of breath, add Pseudostellaria baicalensis, stir-fried jujube seed, roasted licorice, magnetite, mother of pearl, and cassia twig.

[Preparation and Usage] Decoction the above medicines for 3 times and then combine the liquid medicines. Take orally in the morning, noon and evening, 1 dose per day.

【Applicable】Treatment of uterine fibroids.

【Prescription 2】

[Ingredients] 12g of Radix Angelicae Sinensis, 6g each of Chuanxiong, cinnamon bark, and fennel, 10g each of safflower, peach kernel, Corydalis yanhusuo, myrrh, raw pollen, and stir-fried aconite, 8g each of Trillium and Curcuma, 30g of raw Selaginella, and 15g of Leonurus japonicus.

[Additions and Subtractions] For those with more severe qi stagnation or in the premenstrual period, add Cyperus rotundus, Chuanlianzi, and Litchi kernel; for those with more severe blood stasis or during the menstrual period, add Leech, Salvia miltiorrhiza, and Leonurus japonicus; in the recovery period or postmenstrual period, use Bazhen Decoction.

[Preparation and Usage] Decoction the above medicines three times and then combine the liquid medicines. Take orally in the morning, noon and evening, 1 dose per day. 1 month as a course of treatment.

Most uterine fibroids are harmless. Bad living habits and poor personal hygiene, which may cause miscarriage, persistent uterine inflammation, and pelvic inflammatory disease, may cause uterine fibroids. Can traditional Chinese medicine cure uterine fibroids? It can have a good effect on various diseases.