Low back pain is a common symptom of women, which can be divided into low back pain caused by kidney deficiency, low back pain caused by cold and dampness, low back pain caused by blood stasis and pelvic inflammatory disease. Let's see what Chinese medicine can do to deal with low back pain.
Low back pain is a common symptom in women. Physiological period will happen, sedentary will happen, especially white-collar workers, who sit in the office for a long time and don't move around often. Over time, the pressure on the lumbar intervertebral disc becomes greater, which leads to various diseases. In addition to the above symptoms, kidney deficiency is also one of the factors leading to low back pain in women. Let's take a look at several situations of female low back pain.
1. Kidney deficiency and lumbago
Kidney governs essence, water and qi. Low back pain due to kidney deficiency is caused by overwork and damage to kidney essence, which is aggravated after fatigue or sexual intercourse. It is also the most common low back pain for women. The pain is the whole waist pain, dull pain and weakness.
In the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the waist is the viscera of the kidney, which controls reproduction and female menstruation. Symptoms of kidney deficiency include forgetfulness, insomnia, loss of appetite, bone and joint pain, soreness of waist and knees, fatigue, fatigue, decreased vision and hearing. The most common symptom is low back pain caused by kidney-yang deficiency, which is manifested as cold pain in the waist and soreness in the waist and knees. Women lose too much blood during each menstrual period, which will damage the kidney qi during pregnancy and childbirth. Women who have given birth to children and women who have had multiple abortions are more likely to have this kind of low back pain.
Kidney deficiency and lumbago can be treated with traditional Chinese medicine. For example:
Gorgon walnut porridge: Gorgon 30g, walnut 20g, red dates 10, and rice 50g as porridge. Mainly to tonify kidney and relieve asthma.
Egg Sanwei Tang: egg 1 piece, 9 grams of kernel-removed lotus seeds, 9 grams of Euryale ferox seeds and 9 grams of yam. And a proper amount of sugar are decocted into medicinal soup, which is eaten together with eggs and soup and is mainly used for treating kidney deficiency.
2. Low back pain due to cold and dampness
Cold-dampness low back pain is mainly caused by wind-cold attacking the waist. The clinical manifestations are waist pain, severe aversion to cold, and unfavorable flexion and extension. Whenever the waist is rainy or cold, the pain is warm and cold, or the limbs are warm, abdominal distension is poor, the tongue is pale and fat, the fur is white and greasy, and the pulse is late or tight.
The therapeutic principles of cold-dampness lumbago are dispelling cold and removing dampness, warming channels and relieving pain.
Prescription: Shenshi Decoction ("Danxi Heart Method"): Zingiberis Rhizoma, Flos Caryophylli, Atractylodis Rhizoma, Atractylodis Rhizoma, Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae, Fructus Trichosanthis and Glycyrrhrizae Radix.
Formula 1: Dried ginger, clove and licorice dispel cold and warm; Atractylodes rhizome, Atractylodes macrocephala and Hong Yan are used for eliminating dampness and strengthening spleen; Flower moss strengthens the spleen and permeates dampness.
Addition and subtraction: cold pain is heavier, limbs are colder, and those who are acute and evil are very cold. Add aconite and cinnamon to warm the yang and dispel the cold; Add Pogostemon Fragrans and Alisma orientalis to patients with severe joint swelling, and reuse Poria and Rhizoma Atractylodis to remove dampness and promote diuresis; If accompanied by pathogenic wind (with uncertain pain), Radix Angelicae Pubescentis, Notopterygii Rhizoma, Radix Saposhnikoviae and Ramulus Cinnamomi are added to dispel pathogenic wind; People with kidney-yang deficiency should use Duhuo Sangsheng decoction, or use cocoon silk, Psoralea corylifolia, Evodia rutaecarpa, Morinda officinalis and so on.
3. Blood stasis and low back pain
Low back pain due to blood stasis is caused by local blood stasis and poor blood circulation due to lumbar muscle strain or sprain. This kind of low back pain is also very common, and the pain is manifested as local tingling and needle-like pain. In this case, organic diseases, such as lumbar disc herniation, kidney calculi's disease and nephritis, must be excluded first. Because low back pain caused by organic diseases will last for a long time, it is difficult to distinguish it from low back pain caused by blood stasis in the early stage, so it should be examined.
The treatment of lumbago due to blood stasis is to promote blood circulation to remove blood stasis, relax muscles and collaterals, and acupuncture can be used.
Prescription: Shenshu, Dachangshu, Yaoashi and Weizhong.
Operation method: after the needle is inflated, the method of lifting, inserting, twisting and reinforcing and reducing is carried out. After acupuncture at Ashi point, cupping is added to suck blood stasis.
Prescription 1: Shenshu and Dachangshu are acupoints of bladder meridian, which can cooperate with ASHI point of waist to dredge the qi of waist meridian, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. Weizhong point is the point of blood, and pricking with triangular needle can achieve the effect of removing blood stasis and promoting regeneration.
Once every other day, 10 is a course of treatment.
4. Low back pain caused by pelvic inflammatory disease
Low back pain caused by inflammation such as pelvic inflammatory disease is a common low back pain in women of childbearing age, and it is also very common in clinic. It is characterized by lumbosacral pain, accompanied by abdominal pain and increased leucorrhea.
The causes of pelvic inflammatory disease can be divided into two types: first, pelvic inflammatory disease causes low back pain due to inflammation; Secondly, patients with pelvic inflammatory disease will suffer from low back pain due to compression of nerves or infiltration of cancer cells into pelvic connective tissue.
Low back pain caused by pelvic inflammatory disease is rooted in pelvic inflammatory disease. If you want to relieve the symptoms of low back pain, you should first treat pelvic inflammatory disease. With the improvement or cure of pelvic inflammatory disease, the symptoms of low back pain can gradually turn mild and disappear.
Traditional Chinese medicine can be used to treat pelvic inflammatory disease.
Method 1: Flos Lonicerae 30g, Rhizoma Smilacis Glabrae 15g, Cortex Moutan 10g, medulla tetrapanacis 6g, Radix et Rhizoma Rhei 5g, and Celosia cristata 15g. Decoct in water, one dose per day, and is suitable for acute pelvic inflammatory disease.
Method 2: Rhizoma Coptidis 30g, Cortex Phellodendri 90g, Scutellariae Radix 90g and Radix et Rhizoma Rhei 60g. * * * Grind into fine powder, mix with honey or decoct with water, and apply hot compress to the lower abdomen twice a day. It is suitable for acute pelvic inflammatory disease at the inflammatory infiltration stage.
Method 3: 20g of Salvia Miltiorrhiza, 0/5g of Radix Paeoniae Rubra and Rhizoma Corydalis, 0/0g of Radix Aucklandiae, 30g of Prunellae Spica, Coicis Semen and Patrinia. Decoct with water, one dose per day, 15 days as a course of treatment, which is suitable for chronic pelvic inflammatory disease.
If women want to avoid low back pain, they should not only prescribe the right medicine and treat it as soon as possible, but also pay more attention to it in daily life and plan ahead. For example, to exercise waist muscles. Walking backwards, yoga, jogging and so on can be done, and it is also good to twist your waist often.
For sedentary office workers, you can often do chest expansion exercises (elbows should be flat at this time), and lean back and pull up to relieve sedentary fatigue.
For women with kidney qi damage during menstruation and children, always pay attention to the warmth of the waist. For example, you should wear a long dress to protect your waist during the month to avoid low back pain caused by moon disease.
For women who love to wear high heels, it is not advisable to wear shoes that are too high, which will easily increase the fatigue of the waist. At the same time, try to * * * low-waist pants during physiological period and lactation.
In addition, the thickness of the mattress also affects the waist. The mattress should be moderate. Because the waist has a physiological curvature, the mattress can be properly thickened and moderately hard, so that the waist muscles can be fully rested.