Acupuncture and Chinese herbs. . .
are effective alternative medicine treatments for menopause

Tired of hot flashes, mood swings, night sweats, and menopause symptoms? Are your periods getting unpredictable and irregular? If this is happening to you and you’re hesitant to jump into Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) or other therapies which involve taking natural or synthetic hormones, then you’ve come to the right place.

Symptoms of Menopause

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Acupuncture N Herbs can treat menopause

Menopause—pre, peri, or post-menopause—presents differently for each woman, but women are often treated the same way with Western medical therapies. Unlike Western Medicine, acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine doesn’t label menopause as a particular syndrome or condition. At the Classical True Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine clinic, we will delve into understanding your unique presentation, and with truly individualized treatments, help bring your body back to homeostasis. With only a few needles, we can help support your body as it transitions through “menopause.” We have found that Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) often misdiagnoses the root condition for menopause, and we even treated the “incorrect” way during our respective TCM training. Now, however, through our in-depth radial pulse diagnostics, we have seen without a doubt how Classical True Acupuncture can help quickly treat those pesky night sweats, hot flashes, and everything else that comes along with menopause. It has the ability to quickly restore balance to the endocrine system.

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Menopause and Chinese Herbs - Does it really work?

I often hear about the frustrating experiences of sudden hot flashes, and the further frustrations in not getting results when women try to take natural herbs and herbal supplements that claim to be a “cure all” for hot flashes. Treating hot flashes with herbs (Western botanicals, Chinese herbs, etc.) has become very popular since many women want natural alternatives to hormone therapy. But some find that these pre-made herbal remedies just don’t work for them, while it works great for others. Even research studies investigating herbs such as black cohosh, angelica sinensis and other herbs find mixed results. Why? Because you can’t use the same herbs or herbal combination for every woman! It’s as simple as that.

Traditional Chinese Medicine’s take on herbs for menopause

Even in my Traditional Chinese Medicine training, I noticed that once a of-menopause-age woman came into the student clinic complaining of hot flashes, night sweats, dry skin and eyes, we’d automatically label it “yin deficiency” and treat it as such with representative herbal formulas. We’d always give the same base representative formulas for tonifying yin, with slight modifications. No wonder patients are often told that it takes a long time to treat the yin deficiency that causes menopausal symptoms! It’ll certainly take a long time if you’re not on the right track. It wasn’t until I began understanding acupuncture theory and pulse diagnostics according to Morant that I realized there’s a much more complex blend of energetic imbalances than just a yin deficiency, if it even was a yin deficiency at all.

This threw what I had learned in school out the window! With TCM, we’re taught to use herbal theory for acupuncture diagnostics, but this “herbalized” theory still isn’t enough for making sure herbs are used to its fullest potential! Yes, it sounds strange to say that herbal theory doesn’t support the proper use of herbs, but it doesn’t in the way most practitioners are taught. Although Morant didn’t use herbs because he understood the effects of true acupuncture, I’m not at the level Morant was! I do see the value of Chinese herbs, but once again, if applied with the proper diagnostics. So herbs can help you with hot flashes if they are designed specifically to address the proper energetic disharmony of yin and yang within your system.

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Traditional Chinese Medicine Vs True Acupuncture

During my education in Traditional Chinese Medicine I was taught that hot flashes were due to a “yin deficiency.” For those of you who don’t know what a yin deficiency is, it’s essentially saying it is a deficiency of the energy of “inactivity” and/or of structure, such as blood, thereby yang becomes over active and you have signs of heat.

This deficiency doesn’t mean there isn’t enough, rather it means it’s more of a functional deficiency. Nonetheless, it was common to see patients with hot flashes instantly labeled as “yin deficient.” This felt very much like Western Medicine, label the patient with some diagnosis regardless of the true root or underlying cause.

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