The incidence of thyroid diseases in women is higher than that in men, mainly because female hormones, including estrogen and progesterone, are likely to participate in the occurrence and development of thyroid diseases. The higher the estrogen level in the body, the more helpful it is to the occurrence of thyroid diseases. Women have more estrogen than men. In addition, women aged 20-40 are in their prime, and their hormone levels are the highest in their lives. Therefore, at this stage, most patients with thyroid diseases are women.
Traditional Chinese medicine classifies thyroid diseases as "gall tumor", and its causes are deficiency of body yin, deficiency of kidney yin, lack of water and gloomy liver knot. On this basis, he suffered from emotional disorder and mental trauma again. Emotional depression, liver depression into fire, if the original constitution is liver and kidney yin deficiency, it is easier to turn the fluid into phlegm, stagnate in the meridians, and form a gall tumor.