Menstrual disorders: Difference between revisions

|1. ||Vata dominant || • Menstrual blood is frothy, thin, rough, blackish or reddish, resembling washings of flower of Butea monosperma (palasha).*

• With or without pain*

• Flows quickly, does not clot**

• Smells like iron(lohagandhi), cold*** Severe pain and bleeding due to hyperemia of pelvic organs-pelvic congestion syndrome or pelvic sympathetic syndrome

|2. ||Pitta dominant ||• Menstrual blood is blue, yellow or blackish in color, hot, comes in profuse amount repeatedly, and with pain*

• Associated with burning sensation, redness over body, thirst, mental confusion, fever and giddiness*

• Resembles the water mixed with smoke or extract of Indian berberis(rasanjana) or cow urine in color, having musty or fishy smell***

• Not attracted  by ants and flies, does not coagulate, hot*** Menometrorrhagia due to pelvic congestion caused by infection/inflammation

| 3. || Kapha dominant || • Menstrual blood is slimy, pale, heavy, unctuous, cold, mixed with mucous and thick, discharged with mild pain*

• Associated symptoms like vomiting, anorexia, nausea, dyspnea and cough*

• Blood resembles the water mixed with red ochre, excreted very slowly, get clotted like a muscle**

• Like flowers of Bauhinia variegata(kovidara), pale, gets clotted in the shape of fibers, smells like fat*** Menorrhagia due to early stage of tubercular endometritis or chronic endometritis due to other causes.

| 4. || Sannipataja || • Foul smelling, slimy, yellowish, resembling ghee, marrow, muscle fat etc.*

• Continuously suffering from thirst, burning sensation, fever, anaemia, and weakness*

• Resembles a sour liqid called “Kanji” prepared from rice and foul smelling.**

• Blue like bronze, dirty and foul smelling.*** Endometrial/cervical carcinoma