Treatment of pelvic inflammatory disease of damp-heat accumulation and cold-damp condensation type

Traditional Chinese medicine classifies pelvic inflammatory disease into damp-heat accumulation type, cold-dampness condensation type, liver depression and spleen deficiency with blood stasis type, phlegm-dampness and blood stasis type, liver and kidney deficiency with blood stasis type, etc. According to the different symptoms, choosing the right treatment can achieve a certain therapeutic effect. For example, the treatment of damp-heat accumulation type pelvic inflammatory disease should be to clear away dampness and heat, remove blood stasis and resolve turbidity; the treatment of cold-dampness condensation type pelvic inflammatory disease should be to warm the meridians and dispel cold, promote qi and resolve blood stasis.

Damp-heat accumulation type

Symptoms: pain or distension in the lower abdomen, back pain, aggravated by fatigue or menstruation, and early menstruation; profuse vaginal discharge that is yellow, sticky and foul-smelling; red urine and constipation; red or dark red tongue, yellow and greasy tongue coating, and a stringy, slippery and rapid pulse.

Treatment: Clear away dampness and heat, remove blood stasis and resolve turbidity.

Medicinal uses: Dandelion, Patrinia paniculata, Phellodendron chinense, Cortex Moutan, Coix seeds, Plantago, Corydalis yanhusuo, Rhubarb, Wax gourd seeds, Adzuki bean, Honeysuckle vine, Cymbidium orbiculare cymbidium.

Cold and damp condensation type

Symptoms: cold pain in the lower abdomen, aggravated by cold and relieved by heat, cold hands and feet, soreness in the lumbar spine, delayed menstruation, scanty menstruation with blood clots; vaginal discharge that is clear, profuse, white or fishy; often accompanied by decreased libido, infertility, pale tongue or with petechiae, thin and slippery or greasy white tongue coating, deep, thin and stringy pulse or deep and slow pulse.

Treatment: Warming the meridians and dispelling cold, promoting qi and removing blood stasis.

Medicinal uses: Cuscuta seed, cinnamon twig, mugwort, fennel, Linderae strychnifolia, costusroot, Corydalis yanhusuo, Aconiti lobata, pollen, processed myrrh, Curcuma zedoaria, Atractylodes macrocephala, and Coix seed.