What is the reason for menstrual cramps?

It is normal for women to have menstruation. This is because the female ovaries grow and develop periodically, which then leads to the shedding of useless tissue. Sometimes women experience dysmenorrhea during their menstruation. Women are very afraid of dysmenorrhea because it causes severe pain and sometimes nausea, diarrhea and other symptoms. What is the cause of dysmenorrhea during menstruation? Let us introduce it below.

Dysmenorrhea mainly refers to the periodic lower abdominal pain that patients experience during menstruation. In severe cases, symptoms such as cold sweats, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, back pain, and even fainting may also occur. Dysmenorrhea mainly refers to the periodic lower abdominal pain that patients experience during menstruation. Some patients will experience cold sweats, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and even back pain when the pain is severe. Some patients may even faint when the pain is severe. We call it "dysmenorrhea". We divide dysmenorrhea into primary dysmenorrhea and secondary dysmenorrhea. Primary dysmenorrhea means that girls have these dysmenorrhea symptoms since their first menstruation, and secondary dysmenorrhea means that there are no symptoms of menstruation at the beginning, but later due to some factors or some other diseases, symptoms of abdominal pain during menstruation occur.

For example, the patient has pelvic inflammation or even endometriosis. The more common ones are endometriosis and uterine gland disease, which can cause secondary dysmenorrhea. The characteristic of endometriosis dysmenorrhea is that it is a gradual and rapid worsening dysmenorrhea. For example, primary dysmenorrhea means that the pain occurs from the beginning, and there is no such process triggered by a medical history.

How do we in traditional Chinese medicine view dysmenorrhea? That is to say, we in traditional Chinese medicine view dysmenorrhea has its causes and the disease mainly has two ends: deficiency and excess. For the deficiency, we call it pain that cannot be tolerated. That is to say, what does it mean to be incompatible and painful? It means that one is the deficiency of kidney qi, the deficiency of liver and kidney, or the weakness of qi and blood, which causes the Chongren, Xuehai, and uterus to lose nourishment, resulting in the inability to melt and pain. The other type is what we usually call pain due to obstruction. Factors such as congestion, qi stagnation, blood stasis, and phlegm and dampness cause blockage of the Chong and Ren meridians and the uterus and uterus meridians. The blockage causes the obstruction of the Chong and Ren meridians, and pain due to obstruction. That is to say, when we treat it, we divide it into two ends: deficiency and excess, to see whether the pain is caused by disharmony or obstruction. This is the view of traditional Chinese medicine on dysmenorrhea. In clinical practice, traditional Chinese medicine has a very good effect in treating dysmenorrhea.