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Menstruation Disorders – Dysmenorrhea – Herbs Used to Treat Dampness in a TCM Perspective

libertees — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:12:41 +0000

All women experience an irregular period once in awhile during their child bearing years. While Western medication has never viewed irregular menstruation as a problem of a women’s reproductive system, traditional Chinese medicine looks at this problem seriously and that if left untreated, it will disharmonize the women’s ecosystem, leading to nervous tension and other health problems, including infertility. Dampness is defined as a condition of fluids accumulating in the body due to a deficiency of kidney yang and the inability of the spleen to absorb energy over a prolonged period of time.

Herbs used to treat dampness include:

1. Fu ling(matsuhodo)
Fu ling is one of the most frequently used herbs in promoting the kidney in urinary secretion and improving the spleen in food absorption. Thereby it releases the water retention in the body and promotes strong kidney and spleen qi in assisting the liver functions in blood formation and transportation of blood to the circulatory system, resulting in lessening the risk of heart abnormalities.

2. Zhu ling (polyporus sclerotium)
This herb promotes kidney urinary secretion. It also helps to expel the dampness (fluid retention) from the body tissues.

3. Ze Xie (water plantain root)
Ze xie has been used frequently in TCM to clean phlegm caused by lung congestion as a result of
excessive dampness accumulating in the lung. It also improves the kidney’s function in secreting urine, thereby reducing the risk of fluid retention in the body tissues.

4. Tong Cao (ricepaper plant pith)
Tong cao promotes the lung and stomach channel. Deficiency of yang as a result of dampness (fluid retention) in the body interferes with the lung’s function in moving and circulating structural body substances, leading to fluids accumulating in the underlayer of the skin. On the other hand, it also helps to improve the spleen’s function in food absorption and waste secretion, thereby reducing the dampness through urinary secretion.

5. Bei Xie (dioscorea root )
The main function of bei xie is to improve the stomach’s function in separating the pure from the turbid after the foods enter the stomach, thereby reducing the extra dampness by expelling them through kidney urinary secretion.

6. Han Fang Ji (stephania root)
Han fang ji is one of the Chinese herbs that has been used to treat fluid retention in the underlayer of the skin of the lower part of the body, including the abdomen.

There are many Chinese herbs that can be used to treat dampness, depending on your diagnosis. Normally people with dampness patterns may also experience some kind of side effect such as heat, sweating, etc. It is for your benefit to work closely with your Chinese herbalist, so your problem can be solved effectively.

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“Let Take Care Your Health, Your Health Will Take Care You” Kyle J. Norton
I have been studying natural remedies for disease prevention for over 20 years and working as a financial consultant since 1990. Master degree in Mathematics, teaching and tutoring math at colleges and universities before joining insurance industries.

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Menstruation Disorders – Dysmenorrhea – Causes of Damp Wind Pattern in TCM Perspective

libertees — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:29:45 +0000

All women experience menstrual disorders sometimes during their child bearing years, before menopause. While Western medication has never viewed that menstrual disorder is a problem of women reproductive system, traditional Chinese medicine looks at this problem seriously, if untreated, it will disharmonize the women ecosystem, leading to nervous tension and other health problems, including infertility.

While dampness is a accumulation of excessive fluid in the body and wind is considered as abnormal function of lung in regulating the movement of qi.

1. Yang deficiency
Yang is important to balance the level of yin in the body, deficiency of yang causes the yin out of control, leading to excessive fluid accumulated in the body. Since it has the tendency to move down to the abdominal region, that increases the risk of dampness. If the lung is also no longer function in moving smoothing in the channels, it causes rebellion qi. Together, they attack the lower body including the abdomen and joint tissues.

2. Blockage of meridian
Blockage of medidian causes qi stganation, in severe case, it causes the qi to move back ward, leading to wind. If there is accumulation of dampness in the body, it causes damp wind that seriously damage the lower part of body.

3. Aging
When we age, the yang qi slowly depletes and dampness slowly increases that is the reason why we, the aging population experience more arthritis than the younger population.

4. Post pregnancy
After the body was born, if a women engage in any physical activity, such as running, go out without proper clothing, walking a lot, etc. it may cause the wind to accumulate dampness in the body and it will strike when the time is right, leading to abdominal spam cramps and pain, joint pain, etc.

5. Weather effects
Go out in cold weather when your hair is wet, eating cold foods when the weather is cold may cause wind accumulated and hidden in your body, leading to dampness cold. When the time is right, it will strike relentlessly, leading to all kind of wind related pain.

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Menstruation Disorders – Dysmenorrhea – Causes of Blood and Qi Stagnation in TCM Perspective

libertees — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:30:34 +0000

All women experience irregular period sometimes during their child bearing years, before menopause. While Western medication has never viewed that irregular menstruation is a problem for a women’s reproductive system, traditional Chinese medicine looks at this problem seriously, if untreated, it will dis-harmonize the women’s ecosystem, leading to nervous tension and other health problems, including infertility. Girls in South East Asia have learned in their early life from their grandmother’s wisdom that they do not engage in any activity that distort their regular period.

Liver is important for blood formation and the lung. It helps to regulate the movement of qi in the body. Obstruction of blood in certain organs may also cause qi stagnation, leading to menstrual cramps and pain before, during and after menstruation. Causes of blood and qi stagnation include:

1. Chronic inflammation
The prolonged period of inflammation causes blood static as a result of increasing blood flow to inflammation regions and distorting the immune system in fighting against foreign bacteria and virus function, leading to blood stagnation.

2. Liver function
Liver is vital for blood formation and waste removal. Abnormal function of liver causes old estrogen or other hormones as well as old blood remaining in the body’s organs, leading to blood stagnation thus increasing the risk of menstrual irregularity and dysmenorrhrea.

3. Inability of respiratory function
If the lung is damaged for whatever reasons, it may affect the lung’s ability to move qi in the pathway of the meridian, leading to blood stagnation in the reproductive region.

4. Stress and depression
Stress and depression caused by an unexpected event can affect the liver function in regulating the psychosocial symptoms of the nervous system and physical symptoms of blood formation, leading to liver qi and blood stagnation that contribute to symptoms of dysmenorrhrea.

5. Unhealthy diet
Unhealthy diet high in saturated and trans fat affect the blood and qi movement, because it causes the building up of cholesterol in the blood stream, thereby reducing the lung’s function in regulating qi movement and the heart’s function in blood circulation.

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