What are the traditional Chinese medicine treatments for acute mastitis?

In daily life, most breast diseases occur during lactation. During lactation, women's breasts are fuller, and milk accumulates around their breasts, which causes poor breast circulation. The main cause is breast pain and lumps in milk secretions. What is the traditional Chinese medicine treatment method for acute mastitis?

Traditional Chinese medicine has accumulated rich experience in the treatment of this disease. The name of mastitis appeared as early as in the "Acupuncture and Moxibustion Jia Yi Jing" of the Jin Dynasty: "Breast abscess has heat, and Sanli is the main point." This disease is also called "breast jealousy", "breast blowing", "breast poisoning" and so on in historical documents.

Etiology and pathogenesis

Acute mastitis is most common during the lactation period, accounting for more than 90% of all cases of acute mastitis. Mastitis that occurs during lactation is called "external mastitis" in traditional Chinese medicine. The pathogenesis is milk stagnation, liver depression and stomach heat, or invasion of wind, heat and toxic evil, which causes blockage of milk collaterals, stagnation of qi and blood, and thus necrosis and pus forming mastitis. Among them, milk stasis is one of the most common causes.

Milk stasis

If the milk circulation of primiparas is not smooth, or the milk is not returned properly, or the nipple is damaged, and the mother is afraid of pain and is unwilling to breastfeed, it will hinder the discharge of milk, cause milk stasis, accumulation of old milk, heat and pus, and eventually cause mastitis. Milk stasis is the prerequisite for mastitis. Milk is rich in protein, water, sugar, etc. These raw materials provide a good culture medium for bacterial reproduction.

There will be many kinds of bacteria in the baby's mouth during the sucking process, but if the milk is discharged smoothly, it will not lead to the occurrence of disease. This is the same as the idiom "running water does not rot". However, if the milk is not discharged smoothly and local congestion occurs due to reasons such as drinking more milk and eating less, or refusing to breastfeed for fear of pain, it is very easy to develop lactation mastitis. "Male abscess" in "Shengji Zonglu" says: "This disease occurs after childbirth... For a newly born woman, the milk vessels are running normally. If the mother does not feed the baby, the milk will accumulate, and the qi and blood will stagnate, which will cause mastitis." This shows that milk stasis is one of the important factors causing the disease.

After reading the above article, I believe everyone has a certain understanding of the Traditional Chinese Medicine treatment methods for acute mastitis. Here I suggest that mothers should not breastfeed their children if such a phenomenon occurs. Once the child’s gastrointestinal tract is affected in the future, you should be careful to prevent the occurrence of breast hyperplasia.