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The life of a woman is ever so changing, especially when referring to the special days of the month or specific stages of life.

Angelica sinensis and coix seed helps during puberty

During a female’s puberty, the commonly occuring problem includes irregular menstruation and leucorrhoea due to hormonal changes. At this stage the uterus is only beginning to develop, which leads to unpredictable physiological functions of the body.

In addition, the teenage years are possibly overwhelmed by stress from school and homework, and changes in lifestyles or irregular living habits. These can all easily be causes leading to irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, increasing leucorrhoea and other related symptoms.

There are many names for angelica sinensis in traditional Chinese medicine, including radix angelicae sinensis or dong quai (當歸) denoting the dried root. It is commonly used to treat menstrual disorders, regulating blood flow. Researches have also found that angelica sinensis can promote estrogen secretion, reduce vascular resistance, increase blood volume and even nourish the skin.

Abnormal leucorrhoea are often a result of spleen disorder. The vaginal discharge commonly contains thick, odorless, white or yellowish substance. At the same time the body may feel weak with the face looking pale as white, without much apetite to eat. The active herbs that are used to recover the spleen includes the grains of coix seed (yi yi ren, 薏苡仁), and atractylodes macrocephala (bai zhu, 白術). There are also commerically available Chinese patent medicine that make use of these herbs including Shen Ling Bai Zhu Pian (參苓白術片) and wuji baifeng wan (烏雞白鳳丸).

After child-birth is suggested to use ejiao and motherwort

During childbirth, women often loses a lot blood from labor which causes blood deficiency. They might feel dizzy, feverish, constipated, bodily pain, limps twitching and other symptoms.

Ejiao (阿膠), which is a protein-rich glue substance made from the donkey’s rawhide. Women use this herb to recover from the loss of blood inconjunction with other herbs such as codonopsis pilosula (dang shen, 黨參), red date (紅棗), and the longan fruit (龍眼).

The symptoms of blood stasis syndrome includes stomachache, fever, and lochia. The motherwort (益母草) is a nourishing plant that can be used to relieve stress after pregnancy. The medical name is leonurus cardiaca. Other names include throw-wort, lion’s ear, and lion’s tail. There are also commercial Chinese patent medicine that is made solely from this herb.

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Around 40% of all males at the age of 40 to 70 will also exhibit signs of menopausal symptoms, but most will refuse to seek clinical help.

Basically everyone goes through this stage sometime in their lives; while the females are likely to start at the age of 41, the males start a bit later at the age of 51.

Unfortunately, statistics have shown that when the stress levels from daily lives and work increases for metropolitan citizens, there is a trend for females to have early signs of menopause. Some white collar office ladies have experienced her menopausal stage at the age of 24.

White colloar office ladies experience early menopause at 24

There was a medical summit held in Guangzhou City People’s Political Consultative Conference Hall (廣州市政協禮堂) which invited medical specialists from Beijing, Shanghai, Gouangzhou, and other China cities to talk about health risk management on 10 common diseases including lumbar disc protrusion, menopause syndrome, men’s sexual dysfunction, female infertility, etc…

The director of the gynecology department in the Guangdong Chinese Medicine Hospital made a speech on menopause syndrome. A recent survey in mainland China suggested that the average age for women starting menopause has lowered by 5 years. 20% of women experiencing menopause syndrome is under 40 years old. The reason for the modern educated women having early signs of menopause are due to the fast rhythm of life, heavy work-related stress, high frequency of miscarriage, etc… Among the survey, the women with higher education level, introverted personality, and higher standards of living quite often have the most visible and earliest signs of menopause.

She pointed out that she diagnosed two patients this year that showed early signs of menopause. One is a 24 years old white collar female manager. At the time of diagnosis she has already stopped having periods for one year, and is having symptoms such as exhaustion, insomnia, and feelings of inferiority. The other female patient is a university graduate in a medical school which also experienced early signs of menopause in her twenties. Both of them has the common problem of stress management.

Males showed low response to clinical help for menopause

In a worldwide study on menopause, among females between the age of 45 to 55, 16% experienced absolutely no symptoms, while the other 84% showed at least one visible menopause symptom. 64% of the population usually self-medicated by performing the appropriate exercise, eating habits and mood adjustments.

Our society is well aware of menopause in women, but not so quite the same for knowledge of menopause for men. Not only does males experience menopause, 40% of men between the age of 40 to 70 showed symptoms of menopause syndrome. Because males do not have visible signs of having “stopped menstruation” as in females, it is rather difficult to spot menopause in men. Due to the lack of knowledge and feelings of embarassment, most men do not voluntarily seek medical advises after having symptoms of menopause.

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