Women in Menopause

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Sharon:

 

I think it would still hold that you treat what you see. My money in Vegas,

would say you will see KI Yin Vacuity. I am a 5E trained practitioner, so I am

going to keep the constitutional factor in mind. For instance, if I beleive

their CF is fire and there is KI yin vacutiy, I will treat KI first (this is me)

and I will also ground the treatment in Fire Points (check the pulses to see

what is needed).

 

I personally have had these menopausal symptoms over the last 2 years. I only

get acupuncture once a month (my practitioner is an hour and a half from where I

live). I eventually had a very well trained herbalist, come up with a concotion

for me - it has mostly KI yin herbs also Ki yang, LR Qi Dep, some SP herbs. I

felt like a new woman. The euphoric effects wore off. I take a lower dosage

and it helps keep these symptoms under control.

 

I treat women with these same symptoms, some with acupuncture and a patent herb,

and some with acupuncture only and it also works quite well.

 

Hope this helps,

 

Anne

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sharon weizenbaum <sweiz

> So, here's my question for practitioners after all this talk about

> menopause.

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> When a patient comes in saying that they have issues relating to

> menopause, we are trained to treat what we see. What we see varies

> depending on the patient. One might have hot flashes with no sweat.

> One might have night sweats without much heat. Another might have

> excessive bleeding and insomnia. Another might have low libido and

> vaginal dryness......All of these patients are about 50 and all are

> relating their symptoms to menopausal changes to themselves. So, you

> do your differential diagnosis and come up with a variety of patterns

> - one includes kidney yin vacuity, another kidney yang vacuity and a

> couple don't show any kidney signs but are more related to Qi

> depression - let's say.

>

> My question - is there anything about the fact that they are 50 and

> around the age of menopause that effects your treatment? In other

> words, if you took the fact that they are in the age arena of

> menopause completely out of the picture and then treated what you

> see, would your treatment be different than if this information was

> in the picture?

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> Thanks!

>

> Sharon

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> Sharon Weizenbaum

> 86 Henry Street

> Amherst, MA 01002

> 413-549-4021

> sweiz

> www.whitepinehealingarts.com

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