Sep
Overcome Infertility – Pelvic Inflammation Disease (PID) In Traditional Chinese Medicine Perspective
Pelvic Inflammation Disease (PID) is defined as a condition caused by inflammation or infection of the female uterus, fallopian tubes, and/or ovaries as a result of scars and adhesion in the pelvic region, which in turn prevent the implantation of egg during natural pregnancy process. It affects over 1 million women in U.S. every month and most of them are in their teen and twenties and over 100,000 women become infertile in the US alone each year. In traditional Chinese medicine PID is classified as the infection of a woman reproductive system. While convention medicine focus in using antibiotics to destroy the invasion of bacteria, virus, fungi, etc, in the infection or inflammation area, traditional Chinese medicine treats the problem as some tiny changes in the women ecosystem that cause PID, resulting in itching in the genital area, abnormal vaginal discharge and power abdominal cramps and pain.
I. I. Causes and Diagnosis of (PID) in the traditional Chinese perspective
A. Causes
Traditional Chinese medicine views PID as a condition of genital itching and leukorrhea (it is a medical term that denotes a thick, whitish vaginal discharge) caused by dysfunction of liver, kidney and Spleen. It believes pelvic inflammation disease is caused by damp heat moving downward and accumulated in the pelvic region as a result of liver stagnation or/and Spleen yin deficiency or /and kidney deficiency, leading to blood and qi deficiency or/ and stagnation.Therefore treating PID is focused in diagnosis of vagina discharge.