Among well-educated healthy couples, 16% of men and 35% of women are frigid. Among childless couples, frigidity accounts for 2%, but few people really have no sexual desire.
1. TCM etiology
It is considered that the disease location of frigidity is heart, liver, spleen and kidney. Due to the deficiency of nature, emotional internal injury, long-term illness and excessive phlegm, the basic pathogenesis is qi stagnation and phlegm resistance, deficiency of essence and qi, and deficiency of qi and blood.
2. Etiology of Western Medicine
(1) Mental causes can be divided into the following categories. ① Chronic fatigue: heavy work pressure, or busy with social affairs, or excessive mental work, which affects the functional state of the advanced nervous system. (2) Abstinence or excessive indulgence make the central function of the spinal cord disorder for a long time, gradually disgust and inhibit sexual desire. ③ The relationship between husband and wife is not harmonious or they have different views on sex, or they lack correct sexual knowledge, or women can't get orgasm for a long time, so they are tired of sex life.
(2) Almost all chronic sexually transmitted diseases with organic causes may cause frigidity, and its mechanism is mainly to affect nerves and endocrine and reduce the level of sex hormones in blood.
(3) Drug reasons Oral drugs can reduce sexual desire. Such as antihistamines, marijuana, phenytoin, reserpine, spironolactone and antiandrogen.
(4) premature sexual life.
(5) Overworked, harmonious and happy sex life needs to be based on good health and energy.
(6) Improper contraceptive measures.
3. External factors
(1) When people are in a bad mood, their sexual desire tends to temporarily decrease, especially in the bad state of extreme sadness, terror, depression and despair, their sexual desire will be significantly affected or even completely lost.
(2) Nutrition is the material basis of sex.
(3) Compared with non-smokers, long-term heavy smoking is more likely to cause impotence. Long-term alcoholism will reduce sexual function and sexual desire.
(4) Long-term or large-scale use of certain drugs can cause sexual dysfunction, even male impotence and female frigidity.
(5) Living conditions Living in a chaotic, poorly ventilated and overcrowded environment will not only cause a bad mood, but also lead to insufficient oxygen supply to the brain due to insufficient indoor fresh air, which will affect sexual function and reduce sexual desire.
(6) Season and Temperature According to the survey, in the winter and spring when the temperature is low, most people have strong sexual desire, especially in spring, which is considered as courtship season, while in the sweaty summer, sexual desire often weakens temporarily.
(7) Age This is an important factor affecting sexual desire.
(8) Incentives and sexual history Apart from internal causes and the role of sex hormones, external stimuli are also very important.
(9) Perceptual human beings are different from other animals. Sexual desire is not a simple biological instinct, but is mostly caused by love.
(10) The influence of health on sexual desire is both important and complicated. Because only people who are physically and mentally healthy can maintain a high level of sexual desire for a long time.
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