Menopausal symptoms of hot flash, night sweat and irritation

I have been seeing quite a few women in their late 40's and early 50's with hot flash, night sweat and irritation. Some of them were put on HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) and some of them are just being miserable. When I share with them that Chinese medicine can address these issues quite effectively, they tend to open their eyes, and say "really?"

It's hard for us who have never experienced hot flash to imagine how it's like to be in the situation. When these women experience hot flash, it literally feels like they are on fire -- very uncomfortable, and naturally, irritable. So how could Chinese medicine address this sort of mysterious symptoms that tend to happen with women who are approaching their 50s? In my clinical practice, I often find these women's Kidney Yin and Yang are not in the right relationship. For example, if yang is not able to enter ying, people won't be able to fall asleep and the heat is be floating above. In addition, most of patients' Kidney Yin and Yang are not in their full potential by the time they reach 50s due to life. The most common treatment principal is to supplement the Kidney Yin and Yang and subdue the deficient fire if any. This is really easy to achieve in Chinese medicine, and any basic practitioners should be able to address. Of course, each individual is very different, and an office visit can give practitioners good ideas on how to fine tune their herbal prescriptions. For example, one menopausal patient may experience hot flash but have cold hands and feet, and another patient who also displays hot flash, night sweat and irritation may feel warm all the time. In this case, the pattern diagnosis would be quite different and herbal prescription will need to be adjusted accordingly.

For me, each patient is very unique and I truly enjoy listening to them telling me on how much Chinese medicine helped them. One of my patients came to see me for the 4th time today, and she has been off HRT (with her doctor's permission, of course) for 3 weeks now (she is currently taking an herbal formula prescribed by me). You know what, no mood swing, no hot flash, no night sweat, good sleep, good appetite and good eliminations. It's all good! I told her she only need to come back to see me if needed. It's the most exciting thing in the world for me to see how Chinese medicine performs miracles.

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Interesting look on food...

Just received the following from a newsgroup that I belong to. Treat your body with these healing foods daily and you'll live till 100! Mmm...Yummy.... Mother nature really rocks!

A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye...and YES science now shows that carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.




A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart is red and has four chambers. All of the research shows tomatoes are indeed pure heart and blood food.






Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks
like a blood cell and all of the research today shows that grapes are also

profound heart and blood vitalizing food.

A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds are on the nut just like the neo-cortex. We now know that walnuts help develop over 3 dozen
neuron-transmitters for brain function.




Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they
look exactly like the human kidneys.






Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and more look just like bones. These foods
specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are
23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet the body pulls it
from the bones, making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of
the body.
Eggplant, Avocadoes and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today's research shows that when a woman eats 1 avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? ... It takes exactly 9 months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).


Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the
motility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm to swell
to overcome male sterility.



Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.

Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries.



Grapefruits, Oranges, and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary
glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the
movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.




Onions look like body cells. Today's research shows that onions help clear
waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears
which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes.