menopause
Menopause is also called perimenopause, as a woman, as long as you live long enough, everyone must go into menopause, is a transitional period in which the function of the female ovaries gradually decreases to disappear, can show a series of symptoms of adaptation, generally between 45-55 years old, about 85% of menopausal women can have the disease, 25% of the symptoms are more severe, some people have very mild symptoms, the duration is short, through psychological adaptation and mental activity adjustment can be alleviated or disappeared, however, there are still some people with more severe symptoms, Conditioning is required through pharmacological interventions. The average human life expectancy is increasing, with women spending 1/3 (or more) of their lives during menopause and after menopause. Improving the quality of life of women during menopause and postmenopausal periods is a problem that everyone has to face and an important issue that the medical community needs to face.
The most common clinical manifestation of menopause
1. Menstrual disorders: mostly irregular menstrual cycles, different duration and menstrual volume, gradually prolong the menstrual cycle, and gradually reduce menstruation until they are completely stopped.
2. Mental and neurological symptoms:
(1) Hot flashes and sweating are typical symptoms of autonomic dysfunction.
(2) Mental hypersensitivity, sleep emotional instability, irritability, or depression, or anxiety and suspiciousness, often unable to control themselves.
(3) Sleep disorders, insomnia, difficulty falling asleep, waking up early, dreaming.
3. Changes in urinary and reproductive tract: dry wrinkles in vulvar skin, thinning of subcutaneous fat, dry vagina, uterus shrinkage, often repeated urinary tract infections, or intermittent urinary incontinence.
4. Osteoporosis, easy to appear soreness and pain in limbs and whole body, easy to fatigue.
5. Menopausal women will also have anxiety, pessimism, suspicious disease, suspicion and other bad psychological states.
Some diseases of menopause
1. A variety of geriatric diseases: such as hypertension, coronary heart disease, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, osteoporosis, obesity, etc.;
2. A variety of gynecological tumors: uterine fibroids, vulvar tumors, ovarian tumors, breast tumors;
3. Other gynecological diseases: vaginitis, menopausal blood, menopausal depression, etc
TCM's understanding of menopause
Chinese medicine's understanding of menopausal syndrome, according to the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic, about "seven seven eight eight": "Women ... Seven seven ren pulse is weak, too chong pulse decline, heaven is extinct, the tunnel is not clear, so the shape is bad and childless. "According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, combined with clinical practice, we believe that menopausal women at about the age of 49, it is the period of liver and kidney weakness, the gradual decline of the function of the pulse, the series of symptoms shown, belonging to the yin and yang disorders, qi and blood disharmony, kidney water loss in nourishment, liver wood lost in the strip, advocating the use of invigorating blood and qi, balancing yin and yang, nourishing water and han wood, nourishing kidney and nourishing liver and other methods for conditioning.