Patient's question:
Your period is 8 days late with less flow, prolonged duration, dark color, and a bad odor. How can you stabilize and treat this situation this month?Doctor's answer:
Dark menstrual color is a manifestation of qi stagnation and blood stasis. If you also experience cold hands and feet and sallow complexion, it indicates the presence of uterine cold. Traditional Chinese medicine is particularly effective in regulating qi stagnation and blood stasis. By tonifying qi, nourishing blood, warming the meridians, and eliminating pathogenic cold and dampness, it can achieve the effects of tonifying qi, nourishing blood, warming the meridians, and dispelling cold.Uterine cold, as defined in Traditional Chinese Medicine, refers to the condition of a cold and deficient uterus in women, primarily characterized by cold symptoms such as cold hands and feet, aversion to cold, reduced menstrual volume, dark color, blood clots, dysmenorrhea, and even amenorrhea or infertility.
In a narrow sense, the "uterus" () refers specifically to the female "uterus." In a broader sense, the "uterus" () encompasses the female internal reproductive organs, including the uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries.