Acupuncture, Tuina, and cupping therapy can treat a variety of conditions. This article serves simply as an example. Curious about yourself? Ask us your question and we will get back to you about the possibilities.
PMS describes the physical and emotional symptoms that appear around the time of menstrual bleeding.
PMS has an impact on work, medical expenses, and quality of life. Further, this time period may make many pre-existing symptoms worse, for example anxiety.
PMS is primarily treated through medication affecting hormonal activity. Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs), a class of antidepressants, are the most common type of drugs used to treat PMS, which can be taken both acutely and continuously. However, for some people they may have unpleasant side-effects such as:
Chinese Medicine can work on several aspects of your problem, because of its personalized approach and its diversity.
Acupuncture and Tuina can relieve many of the symptoms of PMS.
Tuina offers:
Acupuncture offers:
Since we are helping your system against its problems, results come at different times for everyone. Usually, in acute cases results come faster than chronic cases.
According to Chinese Medicine, in order to regulate the menstrual cycle treatment must last for 3 menstrual periods, despite improvement appearing soon
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Effects and treatment methods of acupuncture and herbal medicine for premenstrual syndrome/premenstrual dysphoric disorder: systematic review
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