Jul 19
Chinese medicine can alleviate menopause symptoms according to a recent report.
The management of this complex and confusing array of symptoms can be made easier with Chinese herbal medicine, which draws on the fundamental principle, that everything changes or moves. The flow of Qi (pronounced chee), which invigorates and animates the body and organs, depends on maintaining equilibrium between the opposing yet complementary forces of change, Yin and Yang. The occurrence of disease is indicative of a disturbance in the flow of Qi (the body’s vital force), and an imbalance between Yin and Yang.
In Chinese herbal medicine there are twelve primary organ-meridian systems that govern the health of the entire body, the Kidney organ-meridian system is of importance because it stores Qi (also called Jing or Kidney energy) – much like a battery stores electricity – and is the source for the opposing forces of Yin and Yang, which regulates the ‘ebb and flow’ of Qi through all the other organ-meridian systems.
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Jul 06
Eating the right food can help you ease symptoms associated with menopause.
Menopause symptoms such as hot flashes, night sweats, irritability, brain fog and other symptoms seem to be considered the norm for women over the age of 50. Researchers from the Department of Integrated Health at Westminster University polled 1,000 British women ages 45 to 55 and compared their answers to those of women from the U.S., Canada, Japan and China. The conclusion was that Japanese and Chinese women suffer the least amount of menopause symptoms. British women suffer the most and Americans are somewhere in between.1 For any woman sweating through this life change, you can stop the roller coaster and “get back to normal” using alternative medicine.
What causes this disparity between menopausal women in the East and West? In Japan, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan and China women do not generally seek medical attention for menopause symptoms.9 The reasons for these cultural differences are complex. Certainly diet and lifestyle choices play a key role. The question is why don’t women in these cultures need Hormone Replacement Therapies (HRT) or medical treatments the way that the majority of Western women do?
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Jun 20
Alternative medicine like Chinese medicine can help you manage menopause and alleviate your pain.
The difference between the way American women and Asian women deal with menopause is like night and day. It is the yin and yang, natural foods and herbs versus artificial hormones and drugs. How is it that womankind can be so diverse? Our two societies of aging women couldn’t be more opposite. Let’s examine the differences of how our two cultures manage this universal aging phenomenon.
The peri-menopausal years leading to the final menstrual cycle bring tremendous change to the female body. In Asian cultures, this change is understood as yin deficiency, which is commonly treated successfully with foods and herbs. As I discussed this with my Taiwanese friend, she was perplexed as to why American women don’t understand what yin deficiency means and what the symptoms are and how to deal with them. This is common knowledge throughout Asian cultures.
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May 08
Menopause can be a difficult, uncomfortable ailment that can be made better by acupuncture, according to a recent study.
Women who suffer from hot flashes and other uncomfortable symptoms of menopause may be able to find relief through acupuncture, according to a new study.
The idea of having to lie still for 20 minutes with needles sticking out of you may not appeal to everyone. On the other hand, hormone replacement therapy — often employed to make menopause more bearable — has some problems of its own, including an increased risk of coronary heart disease, stroke and breast cancer.
So Turkish researchers recruited 53 postmenopausal women and assigned 27 of them to a five-week course of acupuncture (twice a week for 20 minutes at a time) and 26 of them got sham treatments that they thought were real. Women in the treatment group had needles inserted at 10 acupuncture points (bilaterally at ST36, LI4, KI3 and LR3, and also at EX-HN3 and CV3); women in the placebo group were treated with blunted needles that didn’t penetrate the skin.
Read more: http://www.bradenton.com/2011/05/03/3160680/acupuncture-can-treat-symptoms.html#ixzz1LGT6l9wx
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Mar 25
Acupuncture can ease the effect of menopause as many other types of treatment have failed.
Women who suffer from hot flashes and other uncomfortable symptoms of menopause may be able to find relief through acupuncture, according to a new study.
The idea of having to lie still for 20 minutes with needles sticking out of you may not appeal to everyone. On the other hand, hormone replacement therapy — often employed to make menopause more bearable — has some problems of its own, including an increased risk of coronary heart disease, stroke and breast cancer.
So Turkish researchers recruited 53 postmenopausal women and assigned 27 of them to a five-week course of acupuncture (twice a week for 20 minutes at a time) and 26 of them got sham treatments that they thought were real. Women in the treatment group had needles inserted at 10 acupuncture points. Women in the placebo group were treated with blunted needles that didn’t penetrate the skin.
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Mar 18
Acupuncture is becoming a treatment of choice for many women who suffer from menopausal symptoms.
Acupuncture may be an effective alternative therapy for reducing menopausal complaints, especially the severity of hot flushes, according to a study published in the March issue of Acupuncture in Medicine.
Didem Sunay, M.D., of Ankara Training and Research Hospital in Turkey, and colleagues investigated whether acupuncture has an effect on menopausal symptoms, and whether there is an associated change in hormone levels. A group of 53 postmenopausal women were assigned to receive either acupuncture or sham acupuncture. The Menopause Rating Scale (MRS) was used to evaluate menopausal symptoms. Serum levels of estradiol, follicular stimulating hormone (FSH), and luteinizing hormone (LH) were measured at baseline, and after the first and last treatment sessions.
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Mar 15
Acupuncture can reduce the symptoms of menopause and enhances one’s quality of life.
Acupuncture may help reduce the severity of hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause, according to a small study.
The research included 53 postmenopausal women, with about half receiving traditional Chinese acupuncture twice a week and the others given sham acupuncture treatments.
After 10 weeks, the women in the traditional acupuncture group had significantly less severe hot flashes and mood swings than those who’d gotten the fake treatment. There were no differences between the two groups in terms of vaginal dryness and urinary tract infection.
The beneficial effects of traditional acupuncture, according to the researchers, did not appear to be associated with changes in levels of hormones that trigger menopause and its associated symptoms.
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Sep 04
Women who suffer from hot flashes now have a new treatment option, acupuncture. A new research have identified acupuncture as an effective treatment in combating hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms.
Acupuncture works as well as a drug commonly used to combat hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms that can accompany breast cancer treatment, and its benefits last longer, without bad side effects, researchers said on Monday.
They tested acupuncture, which began in China more than 2,000 years ago and involves inserting needles into the body, against the Wyeth antidepressant Effexor, for hot flashes in breast cancer patients.
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Jul 24
Chinese medicine can help ease the discomfort resulting from menopause.
An HT alternative?
Hot flashes, insomnia, mood swings, and the other symptoms of menopause can be unpleasant and difficult to manage. Hormone therapy (HT) can help in the short term, but long-term HT can increase a woman’s risk of breast cancer, stroke, and heart attacks.
Instead, many women opt for dietary supplements. But do they work? Supplements are rarely tested thoroughly, and their manufacturers make health claims that aren’t always backed up by science.
In the following article, we use the latest research to break down the most commonly used supplements for menopause.
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