How Acupuncture Can Help Woman’s Wellness and Aging

Happy Clover Acupuncture & Herbal Medicine

Jody Hsu Steele L.Ac, Dipl. O.M., MAOM

909-527-0374

1. How can Acupuncture help our health? What is the concept behind it?

Ans: 14 meridian= Freeway, Highway

         Acu Points= Exit/ Entrance to freeway

            Qi / Blood stagnation= Accident on Freeway cause traffic Jam

            Needle/acupuncturist-=AAA/Police

            Promo Qi flow and Blood circulation=move the traffic

2. What theory does Tradition Oriental Medicine base on?

Ans: 1) Yin- Yang ( differentiation of syndromes by eight principles)

                     2) Five Elements

Metal	Wood	Water	Fire	Earth
Lung	Liver	Kidney	Heart	Spleen

3. Etiology ( cause of the diseases)

Six exterior pathogenic factors vs. interior emotion/ organ)

4. What method TCM use to treat their patient?

Base on the diagnosis from Tongue & Pulse

• Acupuncture=needle (body, head, ear, hand)
• Herbal Medicine (roots, leaves, flower, seeds, grass, fruit, mineral, animal parts)
•  Cupping, Gua Sha massage,
• electro-acupuncture
• moxibustion

5. Woman usually is a caregiver. It is time to take yourself before you can take care others. What is happening when woman facing aging? What problems do woman facing?

Menopause Syndromes= hormone change, estrogen decline
Hot Flash Night Sweating	Irritable Angry	Insomnia Palpitation	Headache Vision/hearing	Weight Gain	Depression Anxiety

Aging
Skin	Muscle		Bone		Brain		Organ		Hair/Nail
Itching	Tightness		OA/all joints		Short term		Slow down		Graying
Wrinkles	Pain		Bone loss/Teeth/hip joint		Parkinson Metal Clarity		Not fully function well		Lost hair Nail harden, Dry, dull
Risk factors of heart disease…………..Stroke,  Coronary Artery Disease (CAD)
Smoke		Hypertension		High LDL/HDL		Over Weight		Menopause

Woman in a lot of time may not have the typical heart disease symptoms such as chest pain, numbness & tingling of the arm and hand, short of breath. Instead, She may feel stomach discomfort, extreme fatigue for no reason.

Breast Cancer- Why Cancer Cell got activate.

Diabetes-  Four big ( hunger, thirst, excess urination, sweating/fever)

6.    Supplyment

Omega-3	Vit D	CO-Q10	Asprine	B12
Anti-inflammation	Breat cancer colon cancer Immunity	Circulation	Thinning Blood, preventing clots	Immunity Energy

7.    Exercises

Qi Gone / Tai Qi	Yoga	Meditation	Weight lifting	Cardio
Move Qi & Blood	Muscle strengthens	Clam your Mind/relax	Strength your bone	Train you heart

What organ control your vital and blood?

Heart	Lung	Liver	Spleen	Kidney
Qi & Blood	Qi & water	Qi & Blood	Qi & water	Qi & Marrow, water

8. Herb+ Food= Life style

9. Water: Bottle vs. Tap water

10.  What Fruit is good for you?

11. What meat is good for you?

     

Free/ Workshop-Acupuncture help menopause, aging, gynecology problem

Woman’s nature is taking care of others; they devote themselves to family members, friends and even their co-workers. But they never stop and take a deep breath, relax and take care of themselves. Women find themselves having less and less energy and they gain weight and start to have hot flashes. They are not happy. They ask, “What is wrong with me?” You aren’t ...sick but just nothing feels right anymore. Why? We are not just talking about looking better and feeling better but changing the dynamic of your health condition. This class will introduce the basic concept of Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese medicine and how it can help you. Our usual subjects of Pain Management and Coronary Artery Disease, topics like menopause symptoms, Woman’s health and any OBGYN problem will be the feature of this lecture. Open discussion and questions are welcome.

Please, Bring your daughters, Mom here. Bring any questions or issues so we can discuss it, if you would like to share it. Participants are not limited to only above 50+

Date: Saturday July 16th
Time: 2-4 PM
Address:

Government Center Community Room  14000 City Center Drive Chino Hills, CA 91709 Subject: woman gynecology relate problems, aging, menopause symptom, and heart disease. Osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, Parkinson, any Pain. Register w/ Chino Hills recreation  909-364-2700 Walk in welcome

Acupuncture helps to reduce menopause symptoms

Menopause usually occurs between  the ages of 48 and 55 and the median age in industrialized countries is about 51. The number of menopause woman in society is increasing has a lot to do with the increased number of the hysterectomies preformed.

The primary basis for the progressive decline of reproductive power in woman is in the ovary itself. Emotional stress is an extremely important cause of menopausal problem, building up for year after year before the onset of the menopause. Menopause is not a disease, it is the normal physiological transition in a woman’s life from a reproductive to a non- reproductive age. 

Woman may experience symptoms like headache, tiredness, lethargy, irritability, anxiety, nervousness, depression, insomnia, inability to concentrate,  hot flushes, vaginal dryness and sweating.  The most common symptoms is hot flushes, and 85% of woman suffer from it.

In TCM perspective,  menopause symptoms due to a decline of kidney essence in its yin and yang aspect. Beside that kidney deficiency may combine with some excess pattern such as dampness, stagnation of qi or blood, empty heat or liver yang rising. 

Acupuncture points of tonify kidney yin and yang, clear heat, expel dampness, move the qi & blood is well use to reduce the symptoms.

Herbal formula such Zhi Bai Di Huang Wan, Gen Nian An are popular herbal formula to use for the complain of hot flush and sweating.