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Edited by: Joe Hing Kwok Chu According to traditional Chinese medicine, the therapies mainly fall under the three groups: I. Qi and blood deficient II. Liver stagnation and excess fire III. Qi and circulation stagnation
I. Qi and blood deficient Symptoms: insomnia before and during period. Irritability, sadness, desire to cry. Sometimes happy, sometimes sad. Volume of menses is small and the color is pale. Pale tongue with white coating. Pulse is weak and thin. Prescription: Gan mai da zao tang with added ingredients Ingredients: fu xiao mai 30 g, zhi gan cao, suan zao ren, zhi xiang fu,dang gui, bai shao, fu shen, 10 g each, yi mu cao 15 g, xhi chang pu 6 g, da zao 10 pieces (cut). Boil with water and simmer for about 25 minutes. Make into 3 servings. Take one prescription per day. II. Liver stagnation and excess fire Symptoms: Shortness of temper, dizziness, thirst and desire to drink liquid frequently. Red face and red eyes, dark urine, hard stool, red tongue with yellow coating, pulse stringy (xian) and fast. Menses is irregular, small amount with dark color and flow is not smooth.
Prescription: long dan xie gan tang (source: yi zhong jin jian)
Ingredients: long dan cao 6 g, huang qin 9 g, shan zhi 9 g, ze xie 12 g, mu tong 9 g, che qian zi 9 g, chai hu 6 g, gan cao 6 g, sheng di 9 g. Boil with water. One prescription a day, made into two or three servings. Stop taking when symptoms subside. Do not take it for a long time.
III. Qi and circulation stagnation Symptoms: Usually overweight. Preceding the period, not much facial expression, no desire to talk, speech doesn't make much sense. Sadness, crying, runny nose. Menses is scant, sticky, dark colored. Pulse is tight and slippery. Tongue has white coating. xiao chai hu tang with added ingredients chai hu 19 g, huang qin 11 g, dang shen 11 g, ban xia 11 g, zhi gan cao 7.5 g, sheng jiang 2 slices, da zao 3 pieces , niu xi 11 g, tao ren 7.5 g, hong hua 3 g, dan pi 11 g. Boil with water. Make into 3 servings. Take one prescription a day. Note: After Zhang Zi He, a Chinese doctor of the Yuan dynasty, declared that all cases of mood disorder were caused by phlegm, most of the medical texts from that time to the present day follow this hypothesis. Studies using a large number of patients have been done under controlled environments. and the results show that treatment using phlegm removing methods failed to solve the problem. Important: Click here to see explanation of formulae in Traditional Chinese medicine page. Qigong therapy is effective.
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