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Menopause causes many changes in women:

sometimes unbearable hot flashes, sleep loss, excessive sweating localized on the neck, upper body, day and night sweating, mood disorders, weight gain, change in skin texture. Today these events are dealt with seriously, professionals being aware of the psychological impact that this results in women as a whole.

Concretely how TCM can help?

First interpret these manifestations of menopause in terms of Chinese medicine. Blood (Xue in Chinese) belongs to Yin. Yin represents the material nutrient density, the movement of receipt, which descends, which anchor. Menstruation allow a large flow of energy in the body.
When blood is less or more of any product there is a so-called Yin. The events are hot flushes: Yin deficiency results in an excessive rise Yang default balance between the two. As this yang is too strong it causes sweating. Blood moistens and nourishes the skin. The spirit that needs to be anchored yin becomes stirred (mood changes). The blood circulates less energy so it is hindered and there is weight gain or swelling. Let us not forget that the disease in TCM is a history of deficit (empty), fullness and blockage of energy.

What will the practitioner?

The goal is to get this energy again. Calm hot flashes by nourishing yin (blood). Soothe nervous tension. Harmonize sleep by calming the night sweating and stress. Circulating energy, unblocking stagnation to avoid weight gain. In this regard, it is essential to make prevention: when the menopause is said it is important to reduce their food intake slightly, to be careful to reduce fatty foods, casseroles etc. ….Chinese nutrition counseling (nutrition according to Chinese medicine) are part of the consultation.

Sometimes, the consultants will need Chinese herbal medicine where the events are important or they last for some time. Homeopathy, an ally of Chinese medicine, may also help.

In any case, it is help you through this difficult course whether in physical or emotional. Regarding calcium, the risk of osteoporosis associated with menopause, there are many things to say about it, dairy is not the only source of supply and fixing. Nutrition counseling Chinese assets are integral to your health. Chinese Nutrition includes nutrition principles in line with Chinese medicine. It’s not “cook Chinese,” but to apply rules of Chinese medicine to our plates, whatever the soil. Prevention, hygiene, control of certain diseases are the watchwords.

But what is it anyway?

The body contains about 400 acupuncture points by counting those who are outside of the meridians and are being discovered even today.
These points are fully identifies and mapped using anatomical. From ancient China, Chinese doctors knew perfectly anatomy. They knew enough physiology.

Acupuncture points are usually distributed on the main path of the meridian to which they belong. These issues stimulated by the needles (in rotation left / right or right / left or removal / insertion more or less rapid) are used to:
- Clear the blocked energy
- To strengthen such a body or organ as such and to enhance their physiological functions.
- Can calorifier certain points through the sagebrush on the sleeve of the needle: very effective in cases of BI (pain) or by a motion ‘cool’ areas.

yes but what is a point of acupuncture?

The ancients symbolized the points as nodes that can be seen on the stems of bamboos. These are not the bones, tendons, or the flesh and skin, so what?

According to archaeological research and modern, these are ALL the interstitial spaces of the body. Indeed, the body is made up of ‘empty’ and ‘full’: it contains envelopes that surround the muscles, ligaments that hold up the organs adjacent organs, viscera etc … there are ‘empty ‘and’ full ‘which follow one another and it is between these empty and full as these points are located. This is so in nature, observe the arrangement of atoms etc. …

Always remember the idea that energy is carried in the body through the meridians and by / in the acupuncture points. Americans talk about the latest research of the energy states in the reticulocytes of the body.

Acupuncture points are where the IQ between floats, moves and spell.
Idea of ??movement, Chinese medicine is not static. So should we be surprised to feel like waves, or heat, or tingling, or electricity, or freshness, or heaviness once the needles inserted.

Contrary to an erroneous idea, that does not ‘evil’!

It is a fact rather surprising to feel his body ‘alive’ through sensations new energy for us, but it is the ‘proof’ that the energy work is done.
Breathe deeply and relax. Enjoy this unique moment when your body and mind are restored, to harmoniously rebalance on the road to health …

In a modern world where we no longer have time for anything, not even to say hello, remember to appreciate the time you spend your practitioner of Chinese medicine …

it has become, alas, rare enough to point out ….

It is difficult to accurately assess the effectiveness of acupuncture based on objective and reproducible modern Western science. The first reason probably is that acupuncture was born in the East, and is still predominant in this part of the world where we reason differently. It now belongs to practitioners of Chinese medicine in the West to establish protocols to better measure the effects of acupuncture – is what is being developed. There are also other reasons for the difficulty of measuring the effectiveness of acupuncture: acupuncture is always personalized and not always reproducible, an acupuncture session has a specific effect but also often an overall effect, it is difficult to measure mental well being …

In China, a country as big as a continent and the source of acupuncture, the effectiveness of acupuncture is so obvious that the question of its validity does not arise. For Chinese specialists, acupuncture can treat over 300 diseases. It has proven effective for centuries on millions of patients.
But outside China, a formal international recognition was necessary for that acupuncture can continue to spread and grow.

In June 1979, at a conference in Beijing (Peking), the World Health Organization (WHO), has publicly acknowledged acupuncture therapy as safe and healthy, and has established a list of 43 diseases can be treated effectively (see list at end of document 1).

In 2002, WHO published a list of 28 conditions for which acupuncture was probably effective. This list was based on controlled clinical trials listed in the scientific literature (see list at end of document 2).

Further studies are underway.

List 1: list of 43 diseases (WHO 1979)
Upper respiratory tract diseases: acute sinusitis (and chronic), acute rhinitis (and chronic), Influenza, Tonsillitis acute (and chronic)
Respiratory diseases: acute tracheitis (and chronic), bronchial asthma
Eye Diseases: Conjunctivitis, acute central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR), Myopia, Cataracts
Oral Disease: toothache, pain after tooth extraction, gingivitis, acute and chronic laryngitis
Diseases of the digestive system: Achalasia of the esophagus and cardia, hiccough, gastric ptosis, acute and chronic gastritis, gastric hyperacidity, acute and chronic duodenal ulcer, acute colitis (and chronic), acute bacillary dysentery (and chronic), constipation, diarrhea, paralytic ileus
Illnesses nerve, muscle and bone: Headache, Migraine, Trigeminal Neuralgia, Palsy, Paralysis post-traumatic polyneuropathy, acute anterior poliomyelitis, Meniere’s disease, neurological bladder, enuresis, intercostal neuralgia, shoulder-hand syndrome, scapulohumeral periarthritis, tennis elbow, Sciatica, Low Back Pain, Osteoarthritis

List 2: list of list of 28 diseases (WHO 2002)
Pain, including musculoskeletal (knee, back, neck, shoulder periarthritis, tennis elbow (tennis elbow), sciatica, sprain – facial, headache, resulting from dental surgery, postoperative)
Rheumatism: rheumatoid arthritis
Colic (stones) bile, renal colic
Primary dysmenorrhea
The Gastrointestinal System: nausea and vomiting, epigastric pain acute, acute bacillary dysentery
Throat: allergic rhinitis
Circulatory system: essential hypertension, primary hypotension, leukopenia (low white blood cells in the blood), stroke
Psyche: depression,
Pregnancy: nausea related to pregnancy, repositioning of the fetus, labor induction to delivery
Side effects associated with radiotherapy and chemotherapy