Your Menstrual Cycle & Menopause

Menstruation - Many girls and women suffer from pre-menstrual symptoms and painful, heavy or irregular periods which result in their feeling unwell for quite a large amount of each month. Women are often prescribed the contraceptive pill to alleviate these symptoms. Chinese Medicine has a very different approach as it believes that it is important to treat the 'root cause' of the presenting symptoms. It does this by treating the major organs that Chinese Medicine believes influence the menstrual cycle - the kidneys, Liver, the Spleen and Chong Mai (the Penetrating Vessel, that influences the supply and proper movement of blood in the uterus). Acupuncture treatments carried out at different phases of the menstrual cycle help balance these organs and create a regular pain free cycle free from PMT.
 
Menopause - This should be a natural event in women's middle years. But in the West, the menopause has increasingly been treated as a 'disease' that must be treated with HRT or other drugs. Acupuncture can alleviate/eliminate many of the common symptoms linked to the menopause - hot flushes, night sweats, migraines, mood swings and depression.