Using foot massage to treat Chronic pelvic inflammation

This is a general inflammation of the female reproductive organs (uterus, oviduct and ovary) and their surrounding connective tissue. Acute patients may suffer from fever, and pain and tenderness in lower abdomen; and chronic patients may suffer from soreness of waist, disturbance of menstruation and infertility. It is included as one of the abdominal pain from abdominal tumor diseases in traditional Chinese medicine.
   
Differential diagnosis: Patients with deficiency of liver and kidney Yin may suffer from dull pain in lower abdomen, profuse, thin and yellow leukorrhea, soreness and weakness of waist and knees, dizziness, red tongue with scanty coating, and deep, thready and rapid pulse. And patients with deficiency of qi and blood may suffer from dull pain in lower abdomen, sallow complexion, general weakness, poor appetite, retarded menstruation with small amounts of pale vaginal discharge, pale tongue with scanty coating, and feeble pulse.
   
Treatment:
Foot massage: The massage is applied to reproductive gland (36), uterus (50), kidney (22), lower abdomen (37), pituitary gland (4), ureter (23), urinary bladder (24), adrenal gland (21), thyroid gland (12) and parathyroid gland (13) reflecting areas. The foot is held in hand by the physician and the knuckle of the first interphalangeal joint of the other flexed index finger is used to apply massage on the related reflecting areas 3-4 times (Fig. 84).
  
Foot acupuncture:
1) Meridianal acupoints: At bilateral Zulinqi (GB41), Zhongfeng (LR 4), Taixi (KI3) and Rangu (KI 2) acupoints, a reinforcing technique of acupuncture with moxibustion is applied, the needles are retained for 20 minutes, and moxibustion is applied for 15 minutes.
2) Foot acupoints: A reinforcing acupuncture technique with moxibustion is applied at Dysmenorrhea 2 (FA-M 3) acupoint, the needle is retained for 15 to 20 minutes, and moxibustion is applied for 15 minutes.
  
External application of drugs: The powder of an adequate amount of Chuanjiao (prickly-ash peel), Dahuixiang (star anise), Olibanum (Ruxiang), Myrrha (Moyao),  and Jiangxiang (rose wood) is mixed with wheat flour and liquor to prepare a paste for application on reproductive gland (36) reflecting area after it is spread on a piece of gauze and a hot water bag is put over the drug applied on the reproductive gland reflecting area for foot massage, twice a day. This treatment is used to treat patients with inflammation and masses in pelvic cavity not curable by the oral administration of drugs.