12 ways to alleviate dysmenorrhea

Menstrual pain (dysmenorrhea) is a chemical problems.

Women endometrium, each month will have a prostaglandin (prostaglandins), the chemical substances in the menstrual period, help children, muscle contraction, and promote the Organization and blood. High of prostaglandin concentrations will cause the uterus muscle contraction into spasm. Not every female menstrual pain occurs. If you have this problem, the following method may provide some of the easing function.

◆ A balanced diet

Budov says: "the most women eat dinner, but omitted too sweet and salty food.

"Although a healthy diet cannot eliminate menstrual pain, but to improve the General State of health is a magical effect. Avoid too sweet or too salty for junk food, they will make your flatulence and slow, eat more vegetables, fruits, chicken, fish, and to a small number of meals.

◆ Take vitamins

Budov doctors noted that many of his patients in the daily intake of just the right amount of vitamins and minerals, has fewer menstrual pain occurs.

He suggested taking the comprehensive vitamins and minerals, preferably containing calcium and dose lower one day, you can take a few times (after dinner).

◆ Add minerals

Calcium, potassium and magnesium minerals, can also help relieve menstrual pain.

Experts found that women taking calcium, representing not less menstrual pain users also. Magnesium is also very important because it helps the body absorb calcium efficiently. At the eve of and during menstruation, and increase calcium and magnesium intake.

◆ Avoid caffeine

Coffee, tea, Cola, chocolate contain caffeine, which makes you nervous, may lead to irritation of the menstrual period.

Therefore, you should avoid caffeine. In addition, the coffee is also possible to stimulate intestinal oils.

◆ Alcohol free

If you're prone to edema during menstruation, the alcohol will exacerbate this problem.

Do not drink alcohol. If you have not, limited to 1 a 2 glass of wine.

* Do not use diuretics

Many women think that diuretics can relieve menstrual discomfort of swelling, but lack doctors opposed this approach.

Diuretics may be important minerals, together with the water

Minutes passed out.

Lac physician recommends that may wish to reduce the intake of salt and alcohol makes the material in the body of water retention.

◆ Keep warm

Keep your body warm will accelerate blood circulation, and relax your muscles, especially the spasm and congestion of the pelvis.

Drink hot tea or hot lemon herb. You can also place a hot pad abdomen or thermos, a number of minutes.

◆ Bubble mineral bath

In warm water bowl into 1 cup salt and 1 cup of sodium bicarbonate.

Soak for 20 minutes, helps to relax the muscles and relieve menstrual pain.

◆ Motion

In particular, on the eve of the menstrual cycle, walk or engage in other moderate exercise, will make you more comfortable during menstruation.

◆ Yoga exercises

Yoga and relaxation.

The following are examples. Bend knees, sitting in the heel. Sticking to his forehead, his arms by your side extension. Maintain this position, until you feel uncomfortable.

◆ Take painkillers

Aspirin and acetaminophen can relieve menstrual pain.

However, more effective medicines including Advil, Medipren, Nuprin Haltran and. These drugs contains ibuprofen, can inhibit prostaglandins. When menstrual pain begins, and a little milk or food together taking (1 slice), so as to avoid injury to the stomach, and continued taking to menstrual pain disappears.

◆ Other solutions

Means the pressure method

Foot contains a pressure point, considered and pelvis of gas path.

In the ankle, bilateral depression are a pressure point. Gently with your thumb and other fingers after extended to pinch the Achilles tendon (Achillestendon) until the calf muscles. Right foot finished, change the left foot, the pressure for a few minutes.

Family transformed

1, massage:

Use your thumb click navel, sea, off element, return, in the extreme, sanyinjiao, every point and a half minutes.

Then supine, right hand Palm massage the lower abdomen (navel), about 3 minutes, then by the umbilicus to symphysis (groin front gaogu) pushing Moldova 30 minutes. 1 week before the requested via start self massage, 1 time per day, 3 days after menstruation clean.

2, moxibustion:

(1) take off element, air sea, Koji bone, mausoleum, sanyinjiao.

Press the ' volume of mild moxibustion operation applied, each time a selection of three points, each point moxibustion, 20 minutes 4 days of continuous therapy. Weight, low back pain and moxibustion shenshu. 4 time for 1 course of treatment, the treatment intervals 4 days, adapted to dysmenorrhea, generally within 2 days before menses moxibustion.

(2) take the umbilicus, uterine cavity.

Moxibustion by moxibustion General. From cyathula, frankincense, myrrh, Radix paeoniae Alba, Dan, safflower, mountain checks guangmuxiang each 15 grams, on medicine, plus gongyan fine 1 Borneol, mixed storage gram bottle of standby. Moxibustion is each time to take on the drug 30 g for Ginger (or rice wine) in moderation and paste paste, apply to the gods, the uterine cavity, cover gauze (or paper), plaster fixation can, 2-for-1 times, at 3 days before menstruation (or period) moxibustion.

3, scraping (gusaha) therapy: scraping wipe, spinal, shoulder, big blind, Nanjing, paste with scratch-off element to extreme, and machine-sanyinjiao, 5 times.

Liver Qi and scraping Taichong Meridian parts, gas blood deficiency and scraping zusanli, gate of Meridian. Light blowing zusanli, gate of Meridian part 3 minutes; heavy scraping other points 3 to 5 minutes.

4, cupping: shenshu, thoracic and lumbar and sacral (back), the following points on both sides, the selection size epigastric and appropriate glass cupping, sparking method will tank adsorption to the selected location, remove each time only 2-3 tanks, tank

25 ~ 30 minutes, 1 time per day, 7-10 times as a course of treatment.

5. application method:

(1) by Angelica, evodia, frankincense, myrrh, cinnamon, xixin camphor all 50 g, 3 g.

First Chinese angelica, evodia, frankincense, myrrh, cinnamon, xixin water 2 times, decoction of concentration as paste, mixed (soluble in ethanol 95%) amount of frankincense, no solution, after drying, and at the end of the inquiry fine the camphor standby, 3 days before menstruation for powder 5 g, yellow wine tones to paste, navel, taped, the swap 1 drug stem the medicine, menstruation after 3 days down, 1 time per month, continuous use to heal.

(2) the use of cinnamon 10 g, 20 g of evodia rutaecarpa, fennel 20 g at the end of the inquiry to with a liquor tune into a paste heating on, 1 time per day, 3 days, before being applied to cold stasis Dysmenorrhea.

(Edit: Zheng Yan internships, MD)