What Is Sexual Arousal Disorder?

Sexual arousal disorder is also called lack of sex or lack of sexual pleasure. Its main feature is complete non-response to sexual stimulation, or lack of sexual pleasure and satisfaction ^[1] . Sexual arousal refers to a series of reactions due to psychological stimuli, such as sexual fantasies, loved ones, and physiological stimuli, such as stroking, kissing, etc.

The most obvious physiological changes in male sexual arousal are erectile penis and elevated testicular position. Women have more extensive and complex physiological changes, including vaginal lubrication, genital swelling, pelvic congestion, breast swelling, and nipple erections. Sexual arousal disorders are usually for women. According to relevant domestic data, 25% of women have sexual arousal disorders.

(1) Western medicine

1, functional factors: mainly from emotional effects such as tension, restlessness, anxiety, depression, distrust, fear, shyness, guilt, aversion, sorrow, hostility, etc., can reduce blood flow to the genitals, leading to sexual response Is missing.

2. Organic factors: The physiological response to sexual arousal depends on the integrity of the vascular and nervous system. Any disease affecting these two systems will cause difficulties in sexual arousal. Such as changes in sex hormone levels, the impact of certain diseases.

(2) Traditional Chinese Medicine: TCM believes that the sexual arousal disorders are mainly in the liver, kidney, and spleen; the causes are emotional trauma, damp heat, congestion, wet phlegm, cold evil, and weakness; the basic pathogenesis is liver depression and stagnation. Internal evil resistance, internal organ damage, insufficient blood. In summary, there are the following six causative factors: if the congenital kidney qi is insufficient, the Tiangui (menstrual) plaque is lacking, and the two pulses are not full; if the husband and wife are unhappy, the liver qi is stagnation, the mood is unsatisfactory, and the desire cannot be sparse If the men and women are violent in intercourse, their sexual desire is absent, or if the female is unsuccessful, they will become the third; if men's impotence and premature ejaculation are unsuitable to the female, over time, the woman's lust will be difficult to evoke the fourth; if sexual knowledge is lacking I do nt have a correct understanding of sexual life, I often read obscene, shameful, dirty and dirty, and I hate it for five; if I suffer from disease, weakness, lack of qi and blood or congenital developmental deformity, it is six. In the clinical practice of TCM, there are cases of insufficient kidney qi, liver qi stagnation, poor mood, and deficiency of qi and blood. The other three clinical symptoms are rare.

1. Primary sexual arousal disorder ^[2]

1. In the stimulation of female sexual life, even when the sexual activity is completed, the vaginal lubrication and swelling response of the vagina cannot be obtained or maintained continuously, repeatedly, partly or completely.

2. During sexual contact, especially during sexual intercourse, regardless of whether or not a normal sexual response occurs, the subjective feelings and sensations of sexual excitement and sexual pleasure are continuously and repeatedly lacking, and some women also report orgasm reactions Lack of sexual pleasure and satisfaction. Anyone who meets one of the above two criteria can be diagnosed.

3. Organic sexual arousal disorders, corresponding symptoms and signs of organic diseases.

4. Relevant laboratory tests and other tests are helpful for the diagnosis of organic diseases.

Sexual Arousal Disorders

1. Psychotherapy: Encourage couples who are treated to communicate openly and frankly about their sexual feelings and desires, and eliminate the psychological factors that affect the arousal barrier.

2. Behavior therapy: Encourage couples of patients to carry out a series of sensory and sexy home exercises to promote women's full relaxation during sexual experience to achieve the desired therapeutic purpose; specific methods include sexy concentration training, genital stimulation training, and sexual intercourse without demand Training, etc.

3. Drug therapy: Specific effective drugs for the organic causes of sexual arousal disorders in women, only for women with estrogen deficiency during menopause and postmenopause. Some sex hormone drugs are often used, or artificial lubricants are used as substitutes. There are dependencies or side effects.

TCM Treatment of Sexual Arousal Disorder

1. Dialectical treatment: The pathogenesis of sexual arousal disorder is based on liver stagnation and qi stagnation, internal resistance of evil and evil, internal organ damage, and insufficiency of essential blood. The principle of solid treatment is to relieve depression, eliminate evil, and tonicity as basic principles. Chinese medicine holographic activation therapy is used to activate the female endocrine system and regulate the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovary-uterine gonad axis. The treatment, supplement, and combination should not be discarded for effective results.

(1) Syndrome of Liver Qi Depression

[Symptoms] Lack of sexual pleasure, vaginal dryness, depression, suspiciousness, chest tightness, sigh, breast tenderness, irritability, irritability, abdominal pain, menstrual disorders, thin white tongue, and pulse dizziness.

[Governing Law] Shuganjieyu, nourishing blood and moistening.

[Prescription] Sini San addition and subtraction.

(2) Deficiency of Kidney Yang

[Symptoms] Lack of sexual pleasure, dry vagina in the same room, weak waist and knees, chills, cold limbs, atrophy, dizziness, tinnitus, pale complexion, delayed menstruation, lighter color, lighter tongue, thin white fur, and thin pulse And late.

[Governing Law] Bushen impotence.

[Prescription] Hehuan San No. 1 side addition and subtraction (experience side).

(3) Yin deficiency fire card

[Symptoms] No pleasure during sexual intercourse, vaginal dryness, burning, heart insomnia, irritability, dizziness, tinnitus, night sweats, hot flushes, low menstrual flow, red color, early; red tongue, less moss, and pulse count.

[Governing Law] Nourishing Yin and lowering fire, Pinggan Qianyang.

[Prescription] Hehuan San No. 2 party addition and subtraction.

2. Single secret prescription:

Silkworm moth honey pupae: 10 male silkworm moths, 100 grams of fairy spleen, 100 grams of Cynomorium, 100 grams of Morinda officinalis, 3 hippocampus, 3 sea dragons, and 8 grams of psyllium. The above medicines are mixed with wine and steamed, and then dried. After repeated 3 times, grind the fines, add 10 kg of honey, seal or put in the refrigerator, and store them for half a year, 2 times a day, 1 cup each time.

3. Diet therapy:

(1) Jasmine porridge: 30 grams of dried jasmine, 60 grams of fresh jasmine, 50 grams of japonica rice, cooked porridge with water, and hot clothes when cooked, suitable for liver-qi stagnation type sexual arousal disorder.

(2) Loach shrimp soup: 250 grams of loach, 150 grams of raw shrimp. Wash and slice the loach, add water to the raw shrimp meat, cook it with wuhuo, and add the seasoning. Before going to bed every night, eat meat and drink soup, and even take 10 days as a course of treatment, suitable for kidney arousal type of sexual arousal disorder.

(3) Dog meat fennel soup: 250 grams of dog meat, 15 grams of star anise, 50 grams of cumin, 1 apple, 3 grams of cinnamon. Wash and cut the dog meat into pieces, add an appropriate amount of water with star anise, apple, cinnamon, stew until the dog meat is cooked, add cumin, and take it once a night before bedtime, even for 10 nights. Applicable to sexual arousal disorder of deficiency type of kidney yang.