Traditional medicine's understanding of ovarian cancer

Traditional medicine has different names for ovarian cancer, which fall into the categories of "symptoms and masses", "intestinal fungus", "abdominal pain", etc. Traditional Chinese medicine's understanding of ovarian cancer can be traced back to the classic medical book "Huangdi Neijing" more than 2,000 years ago. The book records: cold air invades the outside of the intestines and fights with the defensive qi. The qi cannot be nourished, and because of something, it is attached to the inside, and bad air arises, and polyps grow. When it first grows, it is as big as a chicken egg, and gradually grows bigger. When it is mature, it is like a pregnant woman. The old ones are separated by years. If you press it, it is hard, and if you push it, it moves. The menstruation comes on time. This is the sign. This is the earliest record of ovarian cancer. According to this, the principle of treatment is: disperse the knots, attack the ones that stay, and use oral medication as the main treatment, combined with external treatment, medicated diet, and single prescriptions.

Traditional medicine has discussed the causes of ovarian cancer in various medical techniques. Most people believe that although there are many factors causing the disease, the main pathogenesis lies in cold stagnation, qi stagnation, and blood stasis. Cold is a yin evil, and its nature is stagnant. Invading the body can easily block the rise of yang qi and the circulation of qi and blood. Before menstruation, during menstruation, or after childbirth, women are exposed to wind and cold, or eat too much raw and cold food, or because of yang deficiency in the body, cold is generated from the inside, and cold invades the uterus meridians, blocking the circulation of qi and blood, resulting in stasis in the uterus organs, and forming symptoms over time. In addition, because qi is the commander of blood, blood circulates when qi moves, and blood stagnates when qi stagnates. Due to emotional distress or depression, or anger hurting the gallbladder, or excessive thinking, qi stagnation and blood stasis are caused, and blood stasis stagnates in the uterus, gradually forming this disease.