Can Sanfutie treat dysmenorrhea?

Menstruation is a special period for women. It is easy to feel unwell during this period. Symptoms such as weakness in the waist and knees, headaches, and fatigue often occur. This is known to all female friends. Moreover, most women will experience dysmenorrhea during menstruation, and it will definitely take some effort to treat it. So can the Chinese medicine treatment recipe Sanfutie be used to treat female dysmenorrhea?

Sanfutie can cure dysmenorrhea. Sanfutie is mainly suitable for various lung diseases such as bronchial asthma, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, cor pulmonale, chronic cough, recurrent colds, chronic rhinitis, chronic pharyngitis, etc. Rheumatism and rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis. Chronic gastroenteritis, chronic gastritis, stomach pain, ulcer disease, chronic diarrhea. Anorexia and enuresis in children. It can also be applied to treat cold and deficiency diseases such as headaches, neck, shoulder, waist and leg pains, chest and abdominal pains, and dysmenorrhea.

The Chinese herbs used in Sanfutie, white mustard, asarum, and gansui can warm the lungs and dispel cold, relieve cough and asthma, resolve phlegm and resolve nodules, and open up the orifices and dredge the meridians. Asarum also has an immunosuppressive effect, which can reduce antigen-antibody reactions in patients with allergic constitutions, reduce the chance of allergic attacks, and alleviate allergic symptoms. Ginger juice has the effect of dispelling cold and relieving cough, so its combined use helps improve asthma.

The volatile oil of Asarum contains the highly toxic safrole, which is carcinogenic and mutagenic. Gan Sui contains toxic components of polyoxyditerpenes, which have synergistic carcinogenic effects and are one of the 52 carcinogenic plants. During this period, the symptoms of diseases such as allergies and asthma are relatively mild, the pores are open, and the medicinal effects are easily absorbed by the skin. Grind Chinese medicines such as Yuanhu, Asarum, Musk, White Mustard, and Ginseng into powder, make them into pills with ginger juice, and apply them to the lung, heart, diaphragm and other acupoints to complete the Sanfu plaster.

What are the treatments for dysmenorrhea?

1. Mental counseling: Especially for girls who have just started their menstruation, they should be patiently taught general medical and health knowledge, explaining that "menstruation" is a physiological phenomenon of girls' gradual maturity. Some physiological reactions such as lower abdominal distension and slight back pain are normal. When the menstrual blood flows smoothly, the symptoms will disappear quickly. For people with primary dysmenorrhea, the symptoms will disappear naturally after multiple menstruations or childbirth. For example, applying hot compress to the lower abdomen can relieve the symptoms when it hurts.

2. Analgesics, sedatives and antispasmodics. Codeine is analgesic, salicylates are antipyretic and analgesic, chlorpromazine is sedative, and anti-catecholamine drugs block catecholamine receptors and inhibit the peripheral parasympathetic nervous system.

3. Oral contraceptives. Combination therapy of estrogen and progesterone in oral contraceptives, taking ethinyl estradiol and norethindrone progesterone daily for 20 to 22 days can inhibit ovulation. Ethinyl estradiol plus norethindrone can also be used once a day for 20 to 22 days to achieve the purpose of inhibiting ovulation and eliminating dysmenorrhea.

4. Prostaglandin antagonists. Indomethacin suppository is a prostaglandin antagonist. An anal plug once a day before and during menstruation can reduce uterine activity, reduce the frequency of uterine contractions, reduce intrauterine pressure, and significantly relieve pain, mainly by antagonizing the secretion of prostaglandins.