Acupuncture for Menopause Symptoms

menopause symptoms:hot flashes, night sweats, pain during intercourse, increased anxiety or irritability, and the need to urinate more often

Female menopause symptoms refers to a series of mental and physical manifestations of women due to the reduction of sex hormones before and after menopause, such as autonomic dysfunction, reproductive system atrophy, etc.,

This may also have a series of physiological and psychological changes, such as anxiety, depression and sleep disorders

Female menopause syndrome occurs mostly between 40 to 60 years old, and have symptoms ranging from mild to severe. About 85% of menopausal women are mostly able to relieve themselves. The rest have severe symptoms, affecting their lives and work, and need treatment.

Clinical manifestations are diverse and can be accompanied by:

1) Sexually aging: After the woman is 50 years old, she has decreased or partially stopped sexual hormone secretion, sexual apathy, sexual annoyance, sexual physiological damage, and sexual dysfunction.

2) cardiovascular symptoms: flushing, hot flashes, sweating, palpitations, headache, dizziness, and even increased blood pressure, angina, etc.;

3) mental and neurological symptoms: anxiety, depression, irritability, insomnia, irritability, inattention, forgetfulness, etc.;

4) menstrual changes and reproductive system changes: menstrual disorders, vulva and vaginal atrophy, prone to senile vaginitis, uterus and vaginal prolapse;

5) others: osteoporosis, joint and muscle pain, bladder, urethra symptoms.

For menopausal syndrome, TCM has great advantages in regulating menopausal syndrome, and there is almost no side effect.

From TCM's perspective, menopausal syndrome can be divided into two types: liver stagnation and spleen deficiency or yin deficiency and fire .

For patients with menopausal syndrome of liver stagnation and spleen deficiency, she often experiences poor mood and is easy to be depressed and easy to get angry. She will have thin yellow tongue coating, and string pulse.

In this case, we should start to smooth the liver and relieve its stagnation, also eliminate dampness in the spleen. We will combine acupuncture with speciic herb to achieve the effect as efficient as possible.

For patients with "yin deficiency and fire" type of menopausal syndrome, in addition to sweat at night, there will be a weak waist and knee performance, less tongue coating and pulse number. The yin deficiency here is mainly refer to kidney yin deficiency.

In this case we will first nourish kidney yin, clear fire for treatment of principle. Prescription can be added or subtracted with Zhibai Dihuang Decoction.

In summary, TCM has a very good effect in regulating menopausal syndrome, and there is almost no side effects.

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