Patient's question:
Recently, I haven't been feeling well, and I've always had a problem with headaches. Especially lately, with the weather getting colder, I accidentally caught a cold and was in so much pain that I couldn't straighten up. Also, my menstrual cycle has been very irregular, with painful cramps and an increase in leukorrhea. Could dampness lead to gynecological inflammation?Doctor's answer:
Humidity is a concept in Traditional Chinese Medicine, but after spleen deficiency, it is very likely to produce humidity. Often, it can lead to body heaviness and sticky stools. If the humidity is mixed with heat, it becomes damp-heat symptoms, which often recur in gynecological damp-heat lower flow, with yellow and smelly leukorrhea. In fact, this is the same thing as gynecological inflammation as described in Western medicine, just with different terminology. Anti-inflammatory drugs can be used to manage the condition.