Basic Information
Chinese name: Frigidity
Aliases: low libido
English name: sexual indifference
Clinic: Department of Psychiatry
Overview
Frigidity refers to the lack of sexual desire, which means no interest in sexual life, and it is also said to be a loss of libido. Frigidity and anhedonia are two different concepts, both can appear at the same time or not at the same time. Therefore, frigidity is divided into two types: sexual lack, asexuality syndrome and asexual lack, asexuality combined. disease. In a survey of well-educated and healthy couples, 16% of men and 35% of women had asexuality. Frigidity accounts for 2% of nulliparous couples, but those who are truly asexual are almost invisible and can be cured. this is a matter for both men and women and should be faced together. Actively face it. Both men and women have responsibilities, and women can't be blamed!
symptom
The symptoms of frigidity are reflected in two aspects: physical symptoms and psychological symptoms.
Physiological symptoms are mainly reflected in: no response or lack of pleasure in sexual care; no vaginal secretion of love fluid or less love fluid during sexual intercourse, dryness, tightening, pain; no sexual pleasure or lack of pleasure, dullness, lack of orgasm; organ dysplasia or atrophy, Aging, cell dehydration, lack of activity, etc.
Psychological symptoms are mainly reflected in: fear, disgust and psychological resistance to sex; cleanliness and serious psychological shadows about sex; lack of awareness of sex, as an obligation or procedure, and insufficient investment; influenced by traditional concepts and consciousness, when sex Inactive, ashamed, dirty. There is also a possibility that the man or the woman's skills are immature, which leads to a disgust for sex, which gradually strengthens and leads to frigidity. Mood: When people are in a bad mood, their sexual desire is easy to temporarily decrease, especially in extreme sadness, terror, depression and despair and other bad states, the sexual desire will be significantly affected, or even completely lost. In view of this, when the lover is in a bad mood, the first problem is to help him or her to eliminate the bad mood, do a good job in mental health care, and should not have sex at this time. If the lover is reluctant to deal with it, not only will it not arouse pleasure, but it will also easily lead to sexual indifference, and it will damage the relationship between husband and wife.
How to treat?
In a survey of well-educated and healthy couples, 16% of men and 35% of women had asexuality. Frigidity accounts for 2% of nulliparous couples, but there are few who are truly asexual.
Causes of Frigidity
Causes of Frigidity in Men
1. Emotional factors
Sex life should be carried out in a state of mind of pleasure and joy. If there is a long-term psychological disorder and the influence of many adverse factors, it can lead to loss of libido. If you mistakenly believe that masturbation is an unhealthy behavior, or you are pessimistic and disappointed in life, as well as repeated career setbacks, interpersonal tensions, family misfortunes, etc., resulting in depression, grief and anger, etc., can lead to loss of libido. Secondly, if engaged in heavy labor for a long time, especially mental labor will also cause loss of libido.
2. Disease factors
Suffering from diseases of the urogenital system, uncomfortable reactions occur during sexual life, thereby inhibiting sexual desire, such as chronic prostatitis, epididymitis, urethritis, etc. Others, such as endocrine diseases, various systemic chronic diseases, etc., can also affect libido due to too little androgen secretion or metabolic disorders.
3. Drug factors
Long-term use of certain drugs can also cause low libido. Common such as tranquilizers and hypnotics, such as tranquilizers, barbiturates, and hypnotics; antihistamines, diphenhydramine, chlorpheniramine; antispasmodics, atropine, probenxin, 654-2; treatment of stomach, duodenum Intestinal ulcer drug cimetidine; antihypertensive drug reserpine.
4. Bad habits
Chronic alcoholism caused by long-term alcohol addiction, chronic nicotine poisoning caused by long-term heavy smoking, and drug users (marijuana leaves, opium, heroin, etc.) can also cause loss of libido.
Long-term loss of libido not only affects the relationship between husband and wife, but also is often a specific reaction of physical and mental conditions. Therefore, enough attention should be paid to timely physical health examinations and timely solutions to problems found. As married couples grow older, their sexual desire requirements gradually decrease compared with the past, which is an inevitable trend of physiological development and is generally not considered to be pathological.
Reasons for female frigidity
1. A history of sexual trauma (rape, incest, sexual harassment, etc.) in the past or even in childhood.
2. Some abnormalities in body shape during puberty are afraid of being known and have a sense of inferiority.
3. After the failure of love or marriage, they think they have been deceived, and even form a revenge mentality for men.
4. Worry about the pain that may be caused by pregnancy, curettage, sexually transmitted diseases, etc., so as to avoid sexual contact.
5. Painful or uncomfortable sexual intercourse makes them afraid of sex.
6. The woman only regards sex life as her wife's obligation, rather than her own physical and psychological needs like eating; if coupled with the lack of sexual knowledge, the lack of sexual life skills, monotonous methods, and even orgasm disorders, Sex is no fun at all.
7. Excessive expectations for the spouse. After marriage, they find that the real husband is far from the ideal spouse before marriage, but they are unwilling to face the reality and adapt to the reality.
8. The husband lacks sexual attraction or has sexual dysfunction.
9. The relationship between husband and wife is tense or bad, and the wife will refuse sexual intercourse as a means of revenge or coercion. (This is the most stupid method in the world, which leads to marital change, affair, impotence and premature ejaculation of husband, etc. The ultimate victim will be the revenge himself).
10. Some acute and serious diseases, chronic diseases and the side effects of their treatment drugs can reduce sexual interest, or inhibit sexual desire due to anxiety that sexual life may aggravate the disease and damage the body.
11. Stressful work, fatigue, alcoholism or indifference of libido due to too much ideological pressure caused by something.
12. After giving birth to a child, the body changes, thinking that the attraction to the opposite sex has been lost, or the husband's attention has been diverted too much to the child, (there are also sexual desires satisfied by the pleasure generated by the baby's sucking nipple), or due to Housework is cumbersome and loses the passion for sex in the past.
13. Some women have a sense of uncleanness in their genitals and are afraid of defacing their spouses.
14. Due to the influence of traditional moral education since childhood, he believes that "women cannot take the initiative to ask for sex, otherwise it will be lascivious", "in husband and wife life, the man should take the initiative to have sexual intercourse, and the woman should cooperate passively", "sexual intercourse is a shameless behavior", etc. Even if there is sexual desire, they dare not express it clearly, and long-term suppression of sexual desire may evolve into frigidity.
In fact, these views are wrong. Since sexual desire is the same as appetite, the satisfaction of both should be treated equally, that is, eat when you are hungry, and eat as you want. For the treatment of frigidity, it is mainly to deal with the above-mentioned reasons. Psychological enlightenment is very important. Re-learning correct sexual knowledge and learning to appreciate the body of oneself and the other party will help improve the pleasure of sex, and take medicine to regulate physical function. It will lay a material foundation for overcoming sexual frigidity. If necessary, female sex aids can be used for treatment, or Masters' sexy concentration training method can be consulted by doctors. The joint treatment of husband and wife is a powerful measure to ensure the curative effect summarized abroad, and the most important thing. It is to build determination, patience and confidence to take the first step in seeking medical treatment. There are so many beautiful things in life? How can we give up the joy of family life?
The dangers of frigidity
1, causing breast pain
During normal sexual life, women enter the period of sexual excitement, the nipples stand up, the surface of the breasts is congested, and the entire breasts swell. In the persistent period, the areola is congested, and the breast enlarges obviously, and its volume can increase by 1/4. At the orgasm stage, the breast enlargement reaches the highest point, and then the breast congestion decreases, the volume gradually shrinks, and it returns to its original state. This process takes about 15-30 minutes. For women with indifferent sex life, because the excitement comes slowly, the congestion and enlargement of the breasts are not easy to subside or subside incompletely, so the breasts will be swollen and painful.
2, induced breast hyperplasia
Breast hyperplasia, also known as lobular hyperplasia, accounts for 2/3 of all breast diseases, and 1 to 3% may turn into breast cancer. Studies have shown that sexual dysfunction or disharmony in sexual life are the predisposing factors for breast hyperplasia. Because during normal sexual life, the breast has the above-mentioned cyclical change process. This normal sexual reflection cycle, like fertility and breastfeeding, is a regulation of mammary gland function. once this regulation is lacking, mammary gland hyperplasia is prone to occur. For women who have no sexual life for a long time or those who are indifferent to sexual life, they are in a state of sexual inhibition for a long time due to the lack of corresponding sexual stimulation. The possibility of getting breast hyperplasia also increases.
3. Increased risk of breast cancer
The latest statistics from the National Cancer Institute show that among women's tumors, the incidence of breast cancer is the highest, accounting for 21%. Among female breast cancer patients, the sexual function is low, and the ratio of unmarried and widowed elderly is significantly higher than that of other groups. This shows that women with indifference or no sexual life have an increased risk of breast cancer. In addition, long-term mental depression, sulking, and unhappy mood can also easily induce breast cancer. This may be due to the fact that people with depression are often prone to apathy in sexual life and no interest in sex. Furthermore, indifference in sexual life can easily lead to infertility or delayed childbearing, and the risk of breast cancer in the nulliparous is 30% higher than that in the fertile. The relative risk of breast cancer among primiparas over the age of 30 is 3.15 times that of primiparas under the age of 30, and the risk of breast cancer for those who give birth after the age of 35 is 4 times higher. It can be seen that timely pregnancy is beneficial to the breast. Because estriol can antagonize the carcinogenic effects of estradiol and estrone, thereby protecting women from breast cancer attacks.
4. Cause endocrine disturbance and skin deterioration
The pH value of the female internal reproductive system is in a weakly acidic environment of 3.8-4.2. This situation is maintained by the environment where the cervix secretes sugar salts and lactobacilli to synthesize lactic acid bacteria. Frigidity is due to insufficient self-regulatory secretion, and the lack of estrogen and androgen. Balance, the secretion of hormones and estrogens is insufficient, then the flushing and self-cleaning functions of the body's liquid on the reproductive system will decline, resulting in the accumulation of toxins, which will react to the skin, which will easily cause spots or skin color loss, dullness and yellowing and so on.
treat
Due to the constraints of traditional concepts, women are often difficult to talk about sexual matters, and can only hide their depression in their hearts. Over time, the malignant development has become a major enemy that affects marriage. Sexual happiness is missing, and happiness is also missing. So is there a kind of drug that can let women get rid of frigidity and harmless? The answer is yes. Acacia honey is a precious drink with great medicinal value for women.
Acacia honey, also known as acacia honey, is called acacia honey because the pollen is collected from acacia flowers. In traditional Chinese medicine, Acacia can relieve depression and soothe the nerves, nourish yin and nourish yang, and is used to treat restlessness, depression, insomnia, neurasthenia, and amnesia. The honey of the King of Flowers is paired with acacia flowers, and it has become a tonic with great medicinal value for women. It is not only a nutritious food, but also has various curative effects such as nourishing the stomach and tonifying deficiency, nourishing yin and nourishing yang, promoting essence and blood, and promoting cell regeneration. , especially for male and female frigidity and other symptoms have a very obvious improvement effect.
Acacia honey is a rare treasure in natural beverages. Menopausal women can drink the essence and nourish blood daily to relieve depression and comfort. Long-term drinking delays aging, and makes female friends happy in life and sex. Sugar-free people can also choose acacia propolis, which does not contain sugar and has no fattening concerns.
Fundamental contents
Frigidity is also known as libido suppression. Refers to the persistent or repeated insufficiency or complete absence of sexual fantasies and desire for sexual activity. It is a common disease of men and women, and Chinese medicine calls it "cold" and "women's yin."
1. Etiology and pathology:
(1) Western medicine:
1. Mental factors: There are roughly the following categories.
(1) Sexual fear factor: having had sexual trauma (rape, incest, etc.), or fear of pregnancy, or fear of contracting a sexually transmitted disease, etc.
(2) Chronic fatigue: stressful work, busy social affairs, or excessive mental work, affecting the functional state of the advanced nervous system
(3) Abstinence or excessive indulgence, the function of the central spinal cord is disturbed over time, gradually disgusting sexual intercourse, and inhibiting sexual desire.
(4) The relationship between husband and wife is discordant or their views on sex are different, or they lack correct sexual knowledge, or women cannot get the pleasure of orgasm for a long time, so they are tired of sex life.
2. Organic factors: almost all chronic diseases may lead to frigidity. The mechanism is mainly to affect the nerves, endocrine, and reduce the level of sex hormones in the blood.
3, drug factors: Oral drugs can reduce libido. Such as antihistamines, marijuana, phenytoin, reserpine, spironolactone and antiandrogens.
4. The sexual indifference shown by both men and women as a way of protecting themselves, or directly or indirectly protecting themselves, has no resistance to sex in nature, but it is out of protecting themselves, so they show apathy.
(2) Traditional Chinese Medicine:
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the disease location of frigidity is in the heart, liver, spleen and kidney; the cause is successive insufficiency, internal emotional injury, chronic illness, physical deficiency, and phlegm-dampness; the basic pathogenesis is Qi stagnation, phlegm resistance, Jing deficiency, Qi and blood deficiency .
Second, the main symptoms:
Low sexual desire, that is, married men and women have a very low desire for sexual intercourse, and there is no such requirement if they do not have sexual intercourse for one month or several months; in severe cases, lack of sexual desire, no desire to have sexual intercourse at all, and no sexual intercourse for several months or even years. , Lack of sexual fantasies, reluctant sexual intercourse does not produce pleasure, let alone orgasm. Mental patients are often accompanied by mental depression, low mood, sentimentality and other manifestations; organic patients are accompanied by corresponding symptoms of organic diseases. Clinical examination of organic can see different signs, such as secondary sexual characteristics or hypoplasia of the external genitalia.
Three, diagnosis points:
The criteria for judging frigidity are difficult to make, and there is often no clear boundary between normal and low sexual desire. Serious marital problems and major mental disorders need to be ruled out before making a diagnosis. The diagnosis is mainly based on medical history and laboratory tests. It is generally believed that after more than one year of regular sexual life, the desire for sexual desire is still very low, or the lack of due pleasure and sexual fantasy can be diagnosed as frigidity.
Fourth, the differential diagnosis:
1. Differentiate from sexual disgust: both have the performance of avoiding sexual activities, but apathy is avoided due to lack of desire for sexual activities; sexual disgust is avoided because of hatred and fear of sexual activities. With regard to sexual attitudes, apathy can be expressed as neutral, while sexual aversion can be expressed as severe aversion and avoidance. It can be summarized as sexual aversion is characterized by fear, hatred and avoidance, and apathy is characterized by depression and lack of reaction initiative.
2. Differentiation from sexual arousal disorder: Both of them have neutral attitudes towards sexual demands, and both can meet and obey sexual demands reluctantly, but neither can get due pleasure from sexual activities. The difference is that the former is a persistent lack of sexual desire, while the latter is a lack of vaginal lubrication and swelling responses and sexual pleasure during intercourse.
3. Differentiate from orgasm disorder: Frigidity can cause orgasm disorder, and it is difficult to achieve sexual satisfaction, but its main manifestation is the lack of desire for sexual activity. Orgasmic disorder can be normal or even strong, but with repeated delays or lack of orgasm during sexual activity. The two can be mutually causal. Lack of orgasm can lead to apathy over time, and low sexual arousal can lead to a decrease in sexual arousal, and it is naturally difficult to have an orgasm.
Five, the treatment method:
(1) Western medicine treatment:
The cause of frigidity is often not single, so treatment requires different approaches to different causes. Frigidity lacks objective signs, and mainly relies on the patient's self-report. only when the patient sincerely requests treatment can it be effective, otherwise it may be counterproductive.
Western medicine treatment is mainly divided into psychotherapy and drug treatment. Psychotherapy methods such as eliminating fear, overcoming prejudice against sex life, improving marital relationship, etc. Drug treatment mainly uses sex hormone drugs and antidepressants. For organic diseases, corresponding drug treatment should be selected according to the primary disease.
(2) Chinese medicine treatment:
1. Dialectical treatment:
The pathogenesis of this disease is characterized by qi stagnation, phlegm resistance, fire failure, essence deficiency and qi and blood deficiency, so the treatment is based on the principles of regulating qi and relieving stagnation, drying dampness and resolving phlegm, helping yang, nourishing essence, and nourishing qi and blood.
(1) Syndrome of liver qi stagnation
[Symptoms> Low libido, lack of sexuality, mental depression, irritability, chest tightness, breast and flank pain, abdominal pain during menstruation, thin white tongue coating before or after menstruation.
[Treatment method> soothes the liver and relieves depression.
[Prescriptions> Shuangmiao Dan (Dr. Chang's experience prescription) addition and subtraction.
(2) Life Gate Fire Decay
[Zhenghou> Low or no libido, cold pain in the waist and knees, cold limbs, loose stools, clear and long urination, thin and cold leucorrhea, late menstruation, less volume and pale color. Pale tongue, thin white fur.
[Treatment method> Warming the kidney and strengthening yang.
[Prescriptions> Guben Huanzhen Dan (Dr. Chang's experience prescription) plus epimedium, velvet antler, cinnamon and other Huiyang products. .
(3) Syndrome of insufficient kidney essence
[Symptoms> Low libido, no pleasure in sexual intercourse, vaginal dryness, burning, palpitations, insomnia, night sweats, hot flashes, light and red menstrual flow, early onset, red tongue with little coating.
[Treatment Law> Bushen Yijing.
[Prescriptions> Guben Huanzhen Dan (Dr. Chang's Experience Formula)
2. Single secret recipe:
Xianlu Soup: Curcuma 10 grams, psoralen 12 grams, antler gum, 15 grams each of Dayun, 20 grams of Polygonatum. Decoction, one dose per day. 2 months is a course of treatment. It is suitable for the deficiency of kidney-yang and deficiency of yin-essence and the coldness of nature.
3. External therapy:
There are many external treatment methods in traditional Chinese medicine. After processing traditional Chinese medicine, it is directly put into the vagina, which can be described as a major feature of traditional Chinese medicine.
4. Diet therapy:
Wolfberry and sheep kidney porridge: 30 grams of wolfberry, 1 sheep kidney, 60 grams of mutton, scallion white, appropriate amount of salt, and 80 grams of japonica rice. Wash and chop lamb kidney and mutton, mix with other ingredients and take with porridge, 5-7 days is a course of treatment. It is suitable for those with apathy due to deficiency of kidney yang.
Frigidity refers to a lack of libido. In layman's terms, it means no interest in sex life. It is also said to be a loss of libido
It was surveyed that 16% of men and 35% of women in well-educated and healthy couples have asexuality, and it is 2% of nulliparous couples, but there are few people who are truly devoid of sexual desire. Frigidity and anorgasmia are Two different concepts cannot be confused. Both can occur at the same time or not at the same time. Therefore, there are two types: there is anerotic anemia-frigidity syndrome and anerotic anemia-frigidity syndrome
Frigidity that occurs at the beginning of sexual life is called primary frigidity and occurs after a period of sexual life is called intermittent frigidity. Selective frigidity refers to a specific opposite sex and specific conditions.
