The Chinese believe that the menopause is a normal and natural part of aging.

What Is Menopause?
Western medicine associates menopausal symptoms with estrogen loss, which is said to result in losses of bone density, skin moisture, bladder tone, protection against heart attacks, hair, and sleep, and so on. Chinese medicine reads the state of imbalance differently: when Yin, the body’s calming, nourishing fluid, is not in harmony with its Yang, or fire aspect, the body is not harmonized. As a result, menopausal symptoms occur.

What the Chinese Medicine Can Do For You
In response to these symptoms, Western medicine prescribes estrogen. Chinese medicine believes this addition sends the body a fake signal and doesn’t let it get used to its own natural changes. In contrast, Chinese medicine proceeds on the assumption that once the body eventually re-achieves its own equilibrium, the symptoms will go away. But at the same time, they will prescribe acupuncture and Chinese herbs to help the women rebalance their Yin and Yang.
The organs that need reenergizing are the kidney and the liver. The kidney is the central, insufficient energy that can produce weak legs and knees, brittle bones, or stiffness and vitality of the head hair. During menopause, or pre-menopause, (which can be two to ten years before a women goes through menopause), a woman’s sense of “drying up”, in Chinese terms, often relates to the deficiency of the kidney Yin. To counteract such depletion, Chinese women use acupuncture and herbs to strengthen their Yin and calm their Yang.

The other easily imbalanced organ, the liver is affected by stress. The Chinese medical theory, states that the liver rules the flowing and the spreading of the Qi. The liver Qi is responsible for the smooth movement of bodily substances and for the regularity of body activities. Any impairment of the liver function can influence the circulation of Qi and blood. The liver is crucial to women’s health, especially at a time when their hormones are changing.

Research shows strengthening the kidney Yin to calm the liver Yang, helps women to reduce menopausal symptoms.

One of the beauties of Chinese medicine is that it treats each person individually. In general, two treatments per week are essential to start with until the symptoms are less noticed and are stabilized. Then, and the treatment will gradually fall to once a week or every other week until it is stopped. We recommended continuing taking kidney tonic herbs to increase bone density.