Reasons why menstruation is delayed every month

Normal menstruation for humans is 5 to 7 days. During this period, menstruation is very normal and has a certain regularity. But for the menstruation that is often delayed every month, the first thing to consider is irregular menstruation. Irregular menstruation will cause infertility, so how should we deal with it?

1. Blood-heat type: Symptoms include heavy menstruation with bright red or dark red color and thick and sticky texture; or small blood clots, often accompanied by irritability, thirst, yellow urine, constipation, red tongue, yellow tongue coating, and slippery and rapid pulse.

2. Blood cold type: symptoms include delayed menstruation, scanty menstruation, dark red color or blood clots, cold and painful vaginal discharge, relieved by heat, fear of cold and cold limbs, white tongue coating, and deep and tight pulse.

3. Qi and blood deficiency type: symptoms include early or late menstruation, increased or decreased menstrual volume, prolonged menstruation, light color and thin menstruation; or pain in the lower abdomen, or dizziness, or fatigue, pale or sallow complexion, poor appetite and loose stools, light red tongue and thready and weak pulse.

4. Blood deficiency type: Symptoms include delayed menstruation, scanty menstruation, light red color, no clots, or lower abdominal pain; or dizziness, palpitations, insomnia, pale or sallow complexion, light red tongue, and a thready and weak pulse.

5. Blood deficiency and Qi stagnation type: Symptoms include delayed menstruation, scanty and light-colored menstruation, abdominal distension and pain, pale or sallow complexion, thin body, dry skin, dizziness, palpitations, depression, chest discomfort, breast distension and flank pain, dark red tongue, thin yellow tongue coating, and stringy or weak pulse.

6. Liver depression and spleen deficiency type: Symptoms include irregular menstrual cycles, more or less menstrual flow, purple-red color, clots, and menstrual dysfunction, or distension and pain in the chest, flanks, breasts, and lower abdomen, abdominal distension and discomfort, occasional sighing, poor appetite, thin white or yellow tongue coating, and a wiry pulse.

7. Liver and kidney deficiency type: Symptoms include irregular menstruation, scanty menstruation, pale and dark color, and clear quality; or soreness in the waist and sacrum, or dizziness and tinnitus, pale tongue with little coating, and weak pulse.

8. Blood stasis type: Symptoms include scanty menstrual flow, dark purple color, blood clots, lower abdominal distension and pain that refuses to be pressed, which is relieved after the blood clots are discharged, normal tongue, or dark purple, or with small ecchymosis, and thin, wiry or stringy pulse.

The symptoms of irregular menstruation are very scary and can even cause infertility, so everyone must pay attention at this time. If the menstruation is delayed every month, you must go to the hospital for examination. In your daily diet, you must pay attention to not eating cold foods.