▲ A 29-year-old woman wanted to lose weight through acupuncture, but three symptoms revealed that she had polycystic ovary syndrome. Chinese medicine prescribed the right medicine and she lost 17 pounds in 5 months.
Dr. Liang has many cases related to dysmenorrhea or irregular menstrual cycles. At the end of 2021, a 29-year-old patient came. She originally planned to use acupuncture to lose weight half a year before her marriage, but after careful questioning, Dr. Liang found that her menstruation was once every two months, and she felt premenstrual symptoms such as breast swelling every month. Pain, slight pain in lower abdomen, every time I thought I was getting ready for menstruation but still no menstrual cramps. Dr. Liang believes that this is a typical symptom of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), so he also instructs the patient to undergo a gynecological ultrasound examination before acupuncture treatment. It turned out it was indeed PCOS.
Patients have always thought that eating themselves is the problem of obesity, and they have never thought that the real cause of obesity is PCOS. So the patient started acupuncture treatment. Since the patient was already taking a variety of mood medications, she did not want to take medication anymore. Dr. Liang finally decided to use acupuncture 3-4 times a month as a treatment plan to regulate menstruation and lose weight at the same time. The patient successfully lost 17.6 pounds in 5 months and shortened her menstrual cycle from 60 days to 34 days without taking any contraceptive pills prescribed by Western medicine. Pregnancy was much smoother 6 months after marriage, and all the girls were born successfully this year!
Doctor talks about PCOS and pregnancy
PCOS is often classified as a syndrome. Common symptoms include menstrual irregularities or amenorrhea, infertility, acne, and hirsutism.
From a traditional Chinese medicine perspective, amenorrhea involves disorders in the following three areas:
1. Liver Qi stagnation: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that emotional stress and bad living habits can lead to liver Qi stagnation. Stagnation of liver qi leads to blockage of meridians, affects the movement of qi and blood, and thus affects women’s ovarian function. 2. Dampness and heat in the spleen and stomach: Traditional Chinese medicine believes that bad eating habits, including excessive consumption of spicy and greasy foods, can lead to dampness and heat in the spleen and stomach, which can lead to the formation of ovarian cysts. 3. Kidney deficiency: Kidney deficiency affects the function of the reproductive system, leading to ovarian dysfunction, thereby reducing the chance of pregnancy.
Physician’s postscript
In the general treatment of PCOS and assisted reproductive cases, Dr. Liang mostly combines traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture to improve ovarian function and promote normal ovulation, which is the key to achieving pregnancy. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment (generally including salvia, angelica, motherwort, etc.) can help blood circulation in the endometrium, enhance the fertilization ability of the uterus, and facilitate the implantation of fertilized eggs and the development of embryos. Therefore, Chinese medicine actually plays an important role. It is not easy to succeed in this case without medication!
▲ Dr. Liang Huiyi, a Chinese medicine practitioner (consultant Chinese medicine practitioner at Yanmei Chinese Medicine Clinic), holds a degree in Chinese medicine and biomedicine (honours) from Hong Kong Baptist University, and a master’s degree in public health from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She mainly treats female infertility and gynecological diseases (chocolate tumors, uterine fibroids) , adenomyosis, polycystic ovary syndrome, general irregular menstruation, menopausal symptoms, cancer, etc.).
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Editor in charge: Zhang Pei
Column name: Health Expert Column
2023-09-20 03:27:30
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