Guest guest Posted September 13, 2004 Report Share Posted September 13, 2004 Greetings, Please forgive this possibly naive question, but I am still trying to understand something that was never touched upon when I was an intern: When approaching a patient who has a menstrual problem such as amenorrhea or PCOS (or infertility), it is important to regulate the menstrual cycle by matching the phase of the cycle herbally (i.e. moving the blood/stopping bleeding whilst menstruating, nourishing yin/blood/SP post-menses, etc). My question is why do we invigorate the blood during menses herbally, yet stay away from acu points such as SP6, SP10 while a woman is menstruating? I have neither found a good anaylsis in the literature nor been able to gain an answer from those live sources around me. I'm grateful for a kind response. Melanie _______________________________ Shop for Back-to-School deals on Shopping. /backtoschool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 13, 2004 Report Share Posted September 13, 2004 _____ Melanie Morris Katin, L.Ac. [mmkatin] Monday, September 13, 2004 6:43 AM Chinese Medicine invigorating blood Greetings, Please forgive this possibly naive question, but I am still trying to understand something that was never touched upon when I was an intern: When approaching a patient who has a menstrual problem such as amenorrhea or PCOS (or infertility), it is important to regulate the menstrual cycle by matching the phase of the cycle herbally (i.e. moving the blood/stopping bleeding whilst menstruating, nourishing yin/blood/SP post-menses, etc). My question is why do we invigorate the blood during menses herbally, yet stay away from acu points such as SP6, SP10 while a woman is menstruating? [Jason] I think the answer revolves around if one wants to be moving blood or not during the menstruation. Sometimes it is important to invig blood to remove the old and especially if her menstrual issues have a blood stasis component. In such a case sp6 and sp10 would be indicated. Sometimes we do not want to invig blood during menses, patient is too vacuous, or too much bleeding (unless from blood stasis) or whatever. Then these points may be CI. Personally I don't think that these points are a big deal and do not worry about them, just don't over stimulate in such situations. I have never actually heard that those points are just plain CI in menstruation, where is that from? I think that one should just ask , what is your txP, and follow it. Hope that helps a little. - I have neither found a good anaylsis in the literature nor been able to gain an answer from those live sources around me. I'm grateful for a kind response. Melanie _______________________________ Shop for Back-to-School deals on Shopping. /backtoschool http://babel.altavista.com/ and adjust accordingly. If you , it takes a few days for the messages to stop being delivered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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