What causes women's prolonged menstrual period?

Menstruation is something that every girl will experience from puberty to menopause. It will accompany us for decades and is related to our physical health. Many female friends may find that the length of each person’s menstrual period is different. Some people take three to five days, some take six to seven days, or even about ten days. What is the reason for women’s long menstrual period? Let’s take a look at it today.

The reasons for prolonged menstruation may include:

(1) Spleen deficiency and failure to retain blood: The spleen is weak and the qi is weak, or fatigue damages the spleen, which further weakens the spleen and causes failure to retain blood, resulting in the Chong and Ren meridians being unstable and continuous menstrual bleeding.

(2) Kidney Qi is not solid: Kidney Qi is deficient due to the constitution, or due to excessive sexual intercourse and childbirth, which damages the kidney Qi and causes the kidney to lose its sealing function, resulting in poor retention and prolonged menstruation.

(3) Yin deficiency and internal heat: Yin deficiency due to the constitution, or irregular sexual intercourse, or too many pregnancies or childbirths, or long-term illness or serious illness that depletes Yin essence. Yin deficiency generates internal heat, which disturbs the Chong and Ren meridians, resulting in continuous menstrual flow.

(4) Damp-heat invasion: Excessive damp-heat in the body, or sexual intercourse during menstruation, or irregular daily routines, can cause damp-heat to invade the uterus and blood, forcing the blood to flow, resulting in prolonged menstruation.

(5) Blood stasis blocking the meridians: There is old blood stasis in the body, or during the period of menstruation and childbirth, the blood chambers are just opening, and the remaining blood has not been drained out. In addition, the body is affected by cold evil, and the blood is coagulated by the cold, forming blood stasis. The blood stasis blocks the meridians, and the blood cannot return to the menstruation, resulting in a prolonged menstrual period.

Treatment (it is still recommended to go to a regular hospital for treatment, but there are some prescriptions below that you can try) Patients with prolonged menstruation who have a certain amount of medical knowledge can choose the following prescriptions for treatment as long as they have undergone relevant examinations to rule out organic factors.

Recipes for prolonged menstrual period

① 12g each of Ligustrum lucidum, Eclipta prostrata, and Rehmannia glutinosa, and 10g of Rubia cordifolia (suitable for those with yin deficiency and blood heat).

② 10g each of Phellodendron chinense and Atractylodes lancea, 20g of Coix seeds, and 12g of Platycladus orientalis leaves (suitable for those with damp-heat).

③ 1g of Panax notoginseng powder, taken with water (suitable for those with blood stasis).

④ 18 grams of Astragalus, 12 grams of Codonopsis, 10 grams each of fried Cimicifuga and Schizonepeta, and 6 grams of Cyperus rotundus (suitable for those with spleen deficiency and loss of control).

⑤ 15 grams each of deer antler frost and Dipsacus asper, and 10 grams of cuttlefish bone (suitable for those with weak kidney qi).

Diet therapy

① 30g each of Astragalus and Ginseng, 1 raw chicken, cut into pieces. Eat after cooking (suitable for people with spleen deficiency).

② 15 grams each of angelica and chuanxiong, 10 grams of safflower, and 500 ml of rice wine. After boiling for several times, filter out the residue and take 30 ml each time, twice a day (suitable for those with blood stasis).

③ Stir-fry pork slices with yam and black fungus, and paste with real lotus root powder (suitable for those with weak kidney qi).

④ Take 10g each of Ligustrum lucidum and Eclipta prostrata as tea (suitable for those with yin deficiency and internal heat).

⑤ 60 grams of fresh rehmannia, 30 grams of red beans, and 200 grams of japonica rice. Cook into porridge and eat (suitable for those with yin deficiency, internal heat or damp heat).

The above is what we introduced to you today about the causes and solutions of women’s long menstrual periods. I believe it will be helpful to everyone. However, if abnormalities often occur during menstruation, it is best to go to the hospital's gynecology clinic for professional treatment and examination. Do not ignore or disregard it to avoid affecting fertility.