Women’s Health
Because a woman’s physiology moves through many transitions – from puberty to menopause – Chinese medicine can provide support to help you navigate each phase of your life’s cycle smoothly.
Why Women’s Health?
Preparing for pregnancy to increase your chances of conceiving and identifying underlying imbalances through the lens of the Chinese medical paradigm. When a woman reaches child-bearing age there can also be concerns with ovulation, PCOS, fibroids, endometriosis.
Pregnancy support in order to ease the most common symptoms such as nausea, fatigue, back pain, or even depression, associated with each trimester of one of your most valuable life’s journey.
Motherhood and the new challenges that arise including lack of sleep, difficult postpartum with emotional and hormonal shifts, lactation issues.
Perimenopause with mood swings, hormonal imbalances, weight fluctuation, fatigue, low libido.
Menopause and its vasomotor and psychological symptoms such as hot flashes, night sweats, menstrual irregularities, vaginal dryness, depression, nervous tension, palpitations, headaches, insomnia, lack of energy, difficulty concentrating, and dizzy spells.
How Does It Help?
Many women turn to western medicine to treat these issues but there are sometimes side effects and health repercussions to consider.
From a Chinese medicine perspective women’s health and fertility are based on healthy reproductive function. Anything that disrupts that function, brings hormones to an unbalanced state will disrupt the delicate equilibrium in the reproductive system and cause any of the problems mentioned above.
A recent study demonstrated that long term use (more than 5 years) of birth control pill could significantly thin the uterine lining, even years after discontinued use. A thick uterine lining is essential for healthy implantation and pregnancy. In Chinese medicine, we consider this effect to be due to blood deficiency from long term-term blood stasis.
Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine work to permanently resolve these issues without disrupting your hormones and provide alleviation of symptoms without side effects.
Research
Treating Gynecological Disorders with Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Review
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2816470/
Effect of Acupressure on Early Complications of Menopause
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28706550/
Acupuncture improves sleep in postmenopause in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/13697137.2012.698432?src=recsys
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