Study on Ancient Chinese Medicine Books Related to Menopause

Prolonged menstrual interval, or intermittent amenorrhea, shortened menstrual time, decreased menstrual flow, or irregular menstrual cycle, prolonged menstrual period, increased menstrual flow, and even massive vaginal bleeding, continuous dripping, flushing, and easy to get excited and sweat. These are all manifestations of menopausal syndrome.

Climacteric syndrome is a common gynecological disease. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that kidney is closely related to menstruation and reproduction, and the clinical symptoms of menopause are closely related to the rise and fall of kidney yin and yang.

Ms. Huang, 48 years old, has been suffering from dizziness and tinnitus, fever in the head and face, irritability and hyperhidrosis, backache and knee pain, dry stool, poor sleep, irregular menstruation, red menstrual color, more or less, red tongue, less fur and rapid pulse in the past six months. Examination: blood pressure 127/75mmHg, no abnormality in heart, lung, liver and spleen.

Western medicine diagnosis: menopausal syndrome. Syndrome differentiation of TCM

This syndrome belongs to kidney yin deficiency and liver qi stagnation.

Choose Bushen recipe, which consists of Lycium barbarum, Taxilli, Chinese yam, Spatholobus suberectus, Polygonum Multiflori Radix, Mother of Pearl, Cornus officinalis and Epimedium. Adding Radix Rehmanniae, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Fructus Ligustri Lucidi and Radix Curcumae.

After taking the dose of 10, dizziness, tinnitus, fever of five nerves, low back pain were relieved, sleep was improved, and headache and costal pain disappeared.

Remove Radix Curcumae and Radix Paeoniae Alba, add floating wheat and calcined oyster.

After taking 10 dose, other symptoms disappeared.

Polygonum Multiflori Radix and Fructus Lycii are compatible with Rhizoma Dioscoreae, Fructus Corni and Radix Rehmanniae to nourish kidney yang. Epimedium, a tonic, has a hormone-like effect. Due to the decrease of hormone level in menopausal women, according to the principle of "Yang gives birth to yin" in traditional Chinese medicine, there are fewer yin-nourishing drugs for patients with kidney yin deficiency. Epimedium combined with mother-of-pearl can inhibit floating yang, because menopausal patients have symptoms such as fever and irritability in the head and face, which is the manifestation that yin can not nourish yang, leading to the floating of deficiency yang, and mother-of-pearl can also inhibit the floating of epimedium.