Can right ovarian teratoma be cured?

It is very troublesome to have children nowadays. After all, the environmental pollution factor is very serious, so the incidence rate of some diseases is getting higher and higher. For example, some women will develop right ovarian teratoma. This disease sounds very serious, so many people are very worried about this problem. I don’t know if it can be cured. Don’t worry too much. Let’s take a detailed look at it below.

1. Western medicine treatment of ovarian teratoma

Once a teratoma is discovered, doctors recommend removal. The presence of an ovarian teratoma may affect a woman's fertility; whether a teratoma is benign can only be determined by pathological examination after removal, and teratoma has a certain rate of malignant transformation. Not removing it is like carrying a time bomb that may explode at any time. B-ultrasound suggests that the symptoms may be a teratoma, but other situations are not ruled out. A pathological examination must be performed after surgery to make a final conclusion. Therefore, even if there are no symptoms, it does not affect daily life, and most teratomas are benign, surgery should be performed.

2. TCM treatment of ovarian teratoma

Teratoma is a common benign tumor of the female reproductive organ, which is called "stone mass" or "intestinal cyst" in traditional Chinese medicine. Ovarian teratoma is clinically divided into three types:

1. Qi stagnation and blood stasis type: manifested by lumps on one or both sides of the lower abdomen. Small lumps usually have no obvious symptoms, while large lumps cause palpitations, shortness of breath, back pain, lower abdominal pain, constipation, frequent and urgent urination, and petechiae on the tongue.

2. Cold-dampness and stasis type: There are lumps in the abdomen, edema in the lower limbs, water accumulation in the abdomen and chest, and poor digestion.

3. Qi stagnation and heat type: severe pain in the abdomen, abdominal distension and nausea, fever and chills, depression, weakness and fatigue, increased vaginal discharge, thick and foul. The common characteristics of each type are that ovarian cysts are mostly unilateral, with intact capsules, active, smooth surface, no ascites, cystic, smooth cyst wall, uniform shape, slow progression, and long course.

Ovarian teratomas are mostly caused by women neglecting to take care of themselves during menstruation or after childbirth, which allows the six evil factors to invade the body, or because of the seven emotions, which cause organ dysfunction, resulting in dampness, phlegm, and blood stasis that block the cell vessels. Over time, these accumulations lead to the formation of cysts.

Ovarian teratoma is usually treated with surgical resection, but most patients are unwilling to accept it, and it is expensive and leaves wounds. Even after the patient's resection, a cyst grows on the opposite side or recurs at the original site. Traditional Chinese medicine can achieve twice the result with half the effort in treating ovarian teratoma. Based on the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, treatment is based on syndrome differentiation. Flexible application of the treatment principles of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, softening and dispersing nodules, removing dampness and eliminating diseases, and eliminating accumulation and promoting qi in the clinical treatment of ovarian teratoma has achieved ideal results.