Where does low back pain come from?
Because women's physical and physiological characteristics are different from those of men, the probability of low back pain is much greater than that of men. In addition, the feeling of low back pain is different, which also represents a different situation.
1. Kidney deficiency and lumbago
Lumbago due to kidney deficiency is the most common lumbago in women. The pain is the whole waist pain, dull pain and weakness. Fatigue or aggravation after sexual intercourse. In the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the waist is the viscera of the kidney, which controls reproduction and female menstruation. The most common is low back pain caused by kidney-yang deficiency, which is characterized by cold pain in the waist and soreness in the waist and knees. Women lose too much blood during menstruation every month, and pregnancy and childbirth will damage kidney qi. Women who have given birth to children and have had many abortions are more likely to have this kind of low back pain.
2. Low back pain due to cold and dampness
This kind of low back pain is mainly caused by wind-cold attacking the waist. The pain is local (upper waist) pain, which is manifested as cold pain and aggravated in rainy days.
3. Blood stasis and low back pain
Women's common low back pain includes: local blood stasis caused by lumbar muscle strain or sprain and blood stasis low back pain caused by poor blood circulation. This kind of pain is manifested as local tingling and needle-like pain. In this case, we must first rule out organic diseases, such as lumbar disc herniation, kidney calculi's disease and nephritis. Low back pain caused by qualitative diseases will last for a long time, and it is difficult to distinguish it from low back pain caused by blood stasis in the early stage. It is recommended to check it.
4. Pelvic inflammation
Low back pain caused by inflammation such as pelvic inflammatory disease is completely different from that of men, and it is a common low back pain for women of childbearing age. Low back pain caused by pelvic inflammatory disease and cervicitis is more common in clinic. The pain is lumbosacral pain, accompanied by abdominal pain and increased leucorrhea.
Always protect your waist.
1. The waist muscles should be exercised.
Walking backwards, yoga, jogging, parallel bars, etc. Everyone can exercise waist muscles, and at the same time, you can often twist your waist in bed before going to bed. Ldquo Swallows can fly. For sedentary office workers, you can do chest expansion exercises regularly every day (at this time, your elbows should be flat), lean back and pull up.
2. Keep warm all year round
Women should always pay attention to keeping their waists warm. For example, wear long clothes during menstruation and confinement to protect the waist and avoid catching cold at the waist.
3. Regulate kidney yin
If the menstrual flow is too much, the waist is often cold and painful, and the sexual desire is cold, then it is necessary to nurse the kidneys in time. Women should tonify kidney and yin and enhance their resistance. Usually, you can eat more kidney-tonifying foods, such as medlar, yam, longan, walnuts and so on. In addition, you can also take some Chinese patent medicines, such as Liuwei Dihuang Pills. If you belong to yin deficiency and excessive fire, you can take Baizhi Dihuang Pill, and those with kidney yang deficiency and low back pain can take Jinkui Shenqi Pill.
4. The thickness of the mattress is moderate
The waist has a physiological curvature, and the mattress can be properly thickened and moderately hard, so that the waist muscles can be fully rested.
5. Abstinence and contraception.
Many induced abortions are easy to damage the kidney and cause inflammation.
In addition, don't wear shoes that are too high, otherwise it will easily increase the fatigue of the waist. Stand and walk for a long time and wear as few high heels as possible. At the same time, try not to wear low-rise pants during physiological period and lactation.
Clever Chinese medicine prescription makes you no longer afraid of low back pain.
Low back pain is a common symptom of women, which can be divided into low back pain caused by kidney deficiency, low back pain caused by cold and dampness, low back pain caused by blood stasis and pelvic inflammatory disease. Let's see what Chinese medicine can do to deal with low back pain.
Low back pain is a common symptom in women. Physiological period will happen, sedentary will happen, especially white-collar workers, who sit in the office for a long time and don't move around often. Over time, the pressure on the lumbar intervertebral disc becomes greater, which leads to various diseases. In addition to the above symptoms, kidney deficiency is also one of the factors leading to low back pain in women. Let's take a look at several situations of female low back pain.
1. Kidney deficiency and lumbago
Kidney governs essence, water and qi. Low back pain due to kidney deficiency is caused by overwork and damage to kidney essence, which is aggravated after fatigue or sexual intercourse. It is also the most common low back pain for women. The pain is the whole waist pain, dull pain and weakness.
In the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the waist is the viscera of the kidney, which controls reproduction and female menstruation. Symptoms of kidney deficiency include forgetfulness, insomnia, loss of appetite, bone and joint pain, soreness of waist and knees, fatigue, fatigue, decreased vision and hearing. The most common symptom is low back pain caused by kidney-yang deficiency, which is manifested as cold pain in the waist and soreness in the waist and knees. Women lose too much blood during each menstrual period, which will damage the kidney qi during pregnancy and childbirth. Women who have given birth to children and women who have had multiple abortions are more likely to have this kind of low back pain.
Kidney deficiency and lumbago can be treated with traditional Chinese medicine.
Euryale ferox walnut porridge
30 grams of Euryale ferox, 20 grams of walnut, red dates 10, 50 grams of rice, for porridge. Mainly to tonify kidney and relieve asthma.
Egg Sanwei decoction
Eggs 1 piece, 9 grams of kernel-removed lotus seeds, 9 grams of gordon euryales, 9 grams of yam, and a proper amount of sugar, and decocted into a medicine soup to eat eggs and drink soup.
2. Low back pain due to cold and dampness
Cold-dampness low back pain is mainly caused by wind-cold attacking the waist. The clinical manifestations are waist pain, severe aversion to cold, and unfavorable flexion and extension. Whenever the waist is rainy or cold, the pain is warm and cool, or the limbs are slightly warm, abdominal distension is poor, the tongue is pale and fat, the fur is white and greasy, and the pulse is slow or tight.
The therapeutic principles of cold-dampness lumbago are dispelling cold and removing dampness, warming channels and relieving pain.
Prescription: Shenshi Decoction ("Danxi Heart Method"): Zingiberis Rhizoma, Flos Caryophylli, Atractylodis Rhizoma, Atractylodis Rhizoma, Pericarpium Citri Tangerinae, Fructus Trichosanthis and Glycyrrhrizae Radix.
Formula 1: Dried ginger, clove and licorice dispel cold and warm; Atractylodes rhizome, Atractylodes macrocephala and Hong Yan are used for eliminating dampness and strengthening spleen; Flower moss strengthens the spleen and permeates dampness.
Addition and subtraction: cold pain is heavier, limbs are colder, and those who are acute and evil are very cold. Add aconite and cinnamon to warm the yang and dispel the cold; If the joints are swollen and wet, Pogostemon Fragrans and Alisma orientalis should be added, and Poria cocos and Atractylodes rhizome should be reused to remove dampness and promote diuresis. If accompanied by common cold (with uncertain pain), Radix Angelicae Pubescentis, Notopterygii Rhizoma, Radix Saposhnikoviae and Ramulus Cinnamomi are added to dispel pathogenic wind; People with kidney-yang deficiency should use Duhuo Sangsheng decoction, or use cocoon silk, Psoralea corylifolia, Evodia rutaecarpa, Morinda officinalis and so on.
3. Blood stasis and low back pain
Low back pain due to blood stasis is caused by local blood stasis and poor blood circulation due to lumbar muscle strain or sprain. This kind of low back pain is also very common, and the pain is manifested as local tingling and needle-like pain. In this case, organic diseases, such as lumbar disc herniation, kidney calculi's disease and nephritis, must be excluded first. Because low back pain caused by organic diseases will last for a long time, it is difficult to distinguish it from low back pain caused by blood stasis in the early stage, so it should be examined.
The treatment principle of blood stasis and low back pain is to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, relax muscles and collaterals, and acupuncture can be used.
Prescription: Shenshu, Dachangshu, Yaoashi and Weizhong.
Operation method: after the needle is inflated, the method of lifting, inserting, twisting and reinforcing and reducing is carried out. After acupuncture at Ashi point, cupping is added to suck blood stasis.
Prescription 1: Shenshu and Dachangshu are acupoints of bladder meridian, which can cooperate with ASHI point of waist to dredge the qi of waist meridian, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. Weizhong point is the point of blood, and pricking with triangular needle can achieve the effect of removing blood stasis and promoting regeneration.
Once every other day, 10 is a course of treatment.
4. Low back pain caused by pelvic inflammatory disease
Low back pain caused by inflammation such as pelvic inflammatory disease is a common low back pain in women of childbearing age, and it is also very common in clinic. It is characterized by lumbosacral pain, accompanied by abdominal pain and increased leucorrhea.
There are two causes of low back pain caused by pelvic inflammatory disease: first, pelvic inflammatory disease stimulates low back pain due to inflammation; Secondly, patients with pelvic inflammatory disease will suffer from low back pain due to compression of nerves or infiltration of cancer cells into pelvic connective tissue.
Low back pain caused by pelvic inflammatory disease is rooted in pelvic inflammatory disease. If you want to relieve the symptoms of low back pain, you should first treat pelvic inflammatory disease. With the improvement or cure of pelvic inflammatory disease, the symptoms of low back pain can gradually turn mild and disappear.
Traditional Chinese medicine can be used to treat pelvic inflammatory disease.
Method 1: Flos Lonicerae 30g, Rhizoma Smilacis Glabrae 15g, Cortex Moutan 10g, medulla tetrapanacis 6g, Radix et Rhizoma Rhei 5g, and Celosia cristata 15g. Decoct in water, one dose per day, and is suitable for acute pelvic inflammatory disease.
Method 2: Rhizoma Coptidis 30g, Cortex Phellodendri 90g, Scutellariae Radix 90g and Radix et Rhizoma Rhei 60g. * * * Grind into fine powder, mix with honey or decoct with water, and apply hot compress to the lower abdomen twice a day. It is suitable for acute pelvic inflammatory disease at the inflammatory infiltration stage.
Method 3: Salvia miltiorrhiza 20g, Radix Paeoniae Rubra and Rhizoma Corydalis 15g, Radix Aucklandiae 10g, Prunellae Spica, Coicis Semen and Patrinia 30g. Decoct with water, one dose per day, 15 days as a course of treatment, which is suitable for chronic pelvic inflammatory disease.
If women want to avoid low back pain, they should not only prescribe the right medicine and treat it as soon as possible, but also pay more attention to it in daily life and plan ahead. For example, to exercise waist muscles. Walking backwards, yoga, jogging and so on can be done, and it is also good to twist your waist often.
For sedentary office workers, you can often do chest expansion exercises (elbows should be flat at this time), and lean back and pull up to relieve sedentary fatigue.
For women with kidney qi damage during menstruation and children, always pay attention to the warmth of the waist. For example, you should wear a long dress to protect your waist during the month to avoid low back pain caused by moon disease.
For women who love to wear high heels, it is not advisable to wear shoes that are too high, which will easily increase the fatigue of the waist. At the same time, try not to wear low-rise pants during physiological period and lactation.
In addition, the thickness of the mattress also affects the waist. The mattress should be moderate. Because the waist has a physiological curvature, the mattress can be properly thickened and moderately hard, so that the waist muscles can be fully rested.
Stretch like a cat to treat low back pain
Many elderly people have backache, and some people who work at their desks for a long time or drive for a long time are also prone to backache and even problems such as disc herniation. This action can strengthen the muscles and fascia of the back, open the Ming point, penetrate the Du meridian through the gentle and orderly S-shaped movement of the spine, and can prevent and treat diseases such as stiff neck, shoulder and back pain, kidney deficiency, lumbago and spinal rigidity, strengthen the visceral function and improve the nervous system function.
Sitting or standing, the lower limbs are not restricted, the palms are crossed inside the left palm and outside the right palm, folded in front of the abdomen, lifted to the chest from bottom to top, and then pushed out from the front. At the same time, the lumbar spine makes S-shaped peristalsis and elastic expansion, which drives the palms to push forward and look forward. Then, do this action repeatedly before your hands are closed. Generally 10 is 1 group, and it is the sixth group of 5-mdash.
general idea
This action is not difficult, much like cat stretching. It mainly practices the S-shaped peristalsis stretching of the lumbar spine. It should fully reflect (if standing, it is from the feet) the movement of each spinal joint and from the spine to the fingers. The palm is changed from flat palm (palm down) to vertical palm, and the vertical palm is pushed out with the palm root as the force point. I feel comfortable in my back, and my fever is better.
This action turned out to be Tai Ji Chuan & ldquo's practice of holding the chest. When the opponent pushes the chest hard, he can induce the chest, dislocate the stressed point that has been attacked, and connect his arms at the elbow joint of the opponent, then pick up the opponent under the peristalsis of the opponent's back and push it back.
Conclusion: The above contents are a detailed introduction to the syndrome differentiation of female low back pain in TCM health care. After reading it, everyone should have a clear understanding of low back pain and how to relieve it. If you are also a long-term sedentary office white-collar worker, you should pay attention to the maintenance of your waist!