Menopause and Symptoms of Kidney Water Heat Loss: A Chinese Traditional Medicine Approach and Remedies

Menopause is a period of transition, it is a period that women can transit through with ease or more often these days with hot flushes, night sweats, insomnia and moods swings, to name a few. As a doctor of Chinese traditional medicine of more than 30 years Rhonda Chang reveals the principles and remedies for treating the symptoms of menopause and explains why some women go through menopause without trouble while most encounter a range of symptoms.
Chang explains the theories of yin yang and five phases in a manner that few people can, and then relates these theories to how Chinese medicine perceives the body and health. Chang shows how the root cause for the symptoms of menopause come down to what Chinese traditional medicine calls “kidney water heat loss”. While hot flushes, night sweats, anxiety and mood swings are commonly associated with menopause Chang explains that these symptoms can happen to people of any age or sex suffering kidney water heat loss. Kidney water heat loss not only causes problems for women during menopause but also affects menstrual cycles, women’s fertility, men’s sexual function, emotional well-being, and can cause fatigue, constant thirstiness, headaches, rosacea, and hyperactivity among children.
Readers of this book will be provided with ten of the herbal formulas Dr Chang prescribes for treating various symptoms associated with menopause or kidney water heat loss. Chang gives straightforward guidance on what things to do and what things to avoid so that menopause is a stress free period. She also provides advice for quitting alcohol, smoking and weight loss which are all associated with kidney water heat loss. While this is a book for the general reader, early stage physicians of Chinese traditional medicine will also find this book an indispensable guide in their own practices.