Mammary gland hyperplasia is the most common breast disease in women. It is neither an inflammatory disease nor a tumor, and often occurs in women between the ages of 30 and 50. If breast enlargement is severe, causing uncomfortable symptoms, such as breast swelling and pain, and nodularity to the touch, then some therapeutic intervention is needed.
There are many reasons for breast enlargement, mainly related to emotions, diet and work environment, especially emotional tension, sulking and moodiness can easily lead to breast enlargement, and eating spicy and oily food and big fish and meat can have a stimulating effect on the breast.
A. What are the symptoms of mammary gland hyperplasia?
[1] Breast lumps: single or multiple lumps in one or both breasts, mostly in the upper outer part of the breast, in the form of lumps, nodules, granules or cords, with lumps being more common, with unclear borders, medium or slightly hard, no adhesion to surrounding tissues, may have tenderness, lumps varying in size, small ones like grains of sand, large ones can exceed 3-4 CM. breast lumps increase in size before menstruation and shrink after menstruation They become soft.
The pain is mainly in the breast lumps and can be radiated to the armpits, chest, shoulders and back, and upper limbs.
[3] Nipple overflow: A few patients may have nipple overflow, which is spontaneous, straw yellow or brown plasma overflow.
4】Menstrual disorders: unstable menstrual cycle, low volume or light color, may be accompanied by dysmenorrhea.
[5] Emotional and mental changes: often feel emotionally upset or irritable, aggravated by anger, mental tension or exertion.
[6] Chest tightness and belching: often feel chest tightness and shortness of breath, or uncontrollable hiccups
B. Traditional Chinese medicine for breast enlargement
TCM believes that the liver and kidney meridians are most closely related to the breasts, followed by the two chakras of the Chong Ren. The common types of mammary gland hyperplasia in TCM are mostly divided into two types: liver-depression and qi-stagnation disorder, and dysregulation of the two channels.
First, dredge the liver and regulate qi
The liver is the first thing that women do, the liver collects blood, the main drainage, the body of yin and use of yang, it is easy to be angry and depressed. For masturbation, every person is depressed, worried or irritable, with tightness in the chest and belching, and breast pain and lump size changes are also related to emotional changes. Liver depression and qi stagnation have an important influence on the pathogenesis of mastopathy. If the seven emotions are not smooth, the liver loses its control, and the painful lump is caused by the stagnation of liver and qi in the intestine, so the main principle of treating mastopathy is to dredge the liver and regulate the qi, and to smooth the qi flow.
Second, to resolve phlegm and soften the firmness
The spleen is injured by thoughts or liver depression and qi stagnation, which can lead to loss of spleen health, phlegm and dampness, lack of kidney qi, and loss of nourishment for the flushing. If you can’t warm the spleen and Yang, the essence can’t be transported and transformed, and dampness becomes phlegm, and liver depression for a long time, heat turns into fire and burns the fluid into phlegm, and phlegm, gas and stasis are intertwined and become masturbation. Therefore, phlegm coagulation has a certain influence on the pathogenesis of mastopathy, softening phlegm, eliminating swelling and dispersing knots can promote the swelling and pain to dissipate invisibly.
Third, invigorate blood circulation and remove blood stasis
The main symptoms are breast pain and lumps, both of which are characteristic manifestations of blood stasis. The depression and anger will lead to liver qi disorder and qi stagnation, which will be blocked for a long time by the qi and internal, so that the blood flow is not smooth, the tunnel is not conducive, the lower can not fill the uterus, the upper can not overflow the breast, the breast complex is closed and obstructed, the qi and blood stagnation, coagulation into lumps, and pain if not pass.
Each person has a different condition that produces breast enlargement, so the usual regimen should be treated differently.
C. Small remedies to improve breast enlargement
1 Clearing liver and relieving depression soup
It is suitable for patients with liver and gallbladder qi stagnation and blood stasis, and liver meridian blood deficiency and wind-heat type, which can clear the liver and relieve depression, cool the blood and disperse the nodules.
Ginseng (remove reed) 3g, Fu Ling 3g, Shu Di Huang 3g, Bei Mu (remove heart) 3g, Fried Gardenia 3g, Atractylodes Macrocephala 4.5g, Angelica Sinensis 4.5g, Chai Hu 2.4g, Mudanpi 2.4g, Chuan Xiong 2.4g, Chen Pi 2.4g, Licorice 1.5g.
How to use: Decoction with water, 1 dose daily, 2 times daily.
2 Tackling the Firmness
Indicated for patients with phlegm and Qi condensation. It can nourish Yin and clear heat, resolve phlegm and disperse knots, and move Qi to break up blood stasis.
Xia Ku Cao 30 grams, Xuan Shen 30 grams, Sheng Oyster 30 grams, Kun Bu 15 grams, Jiang Han Xia 12 grams, Seaweed 12 grams, Qing Pi 9 grams, Chen Pi 9 grams, San Ling 6 grams, Curcuma longa 6 grams.
How to use: Decocted in water, or powdered and taken with boiling water.
3 Breast Dissipation Soup
Indicated for patients with liver qi stagnation, phlegm coagulation and kidney yin deficiency. It can disperse liver and dispel depression to relieve pain, resolve phlegm nodules and tonify kidney water to subdue Yang.
15 grams of Shanzha, 15 grams of Wuweizi, 50 grams of malt.
Dosage: Decoction with water, 1 dose daily, 2 times daily.
D. Mammary gland hyperplasia conditioning method
1, emotional regulation: mammary gland hyperplasia is more harmful to the human body than psychological damage, due to the lack of proper understanding of the disease, adverse psychological factors excessive tension stimulates worry and sadness, resulting in neurasthenia, will aggravate the endocrine disorders, prompting the aggravation of hyperplasia, to be good at regulating emotions, maintain a good mental state. Especially during menstruation and pregnancy, we should pay more attention to regulating bad moods.
2, reasonable rest: life should be regular, pay attention to rest, to ensure adequate sleep, not often stay up late. In addition, a regular sex life also helps to adjust the physiological rhythm disorders and endocrine disorders.
3, moderate exercise: to prevent obesity to improve immunity.
4, change the diet: prevent obesity less fried food, animal fat, sweets and too much food, to eat more vegetables and fruits, eat more coarse grains. Black soybean is the best, eat more walnuts, black sesame, black fungus, mushrooms.
5,Regular check-ups: learn and master breast self-examination methods, and actively participate in breast cancer screening or breast physical examination once a year.