Amenorrhea
Key Diagnostic Points:
The diagnosis of the disease is characterized by the absence of
menstruation.
Women at the age of 18 who have never menstruated are considered
to have primary amenorrhea; women whose menses have ceased for over three
months after the formation of their menstrual cycle are said to have
secondary amenorrhea.
Differential Diagnosis :
Deficiency of the Liver and Kidney.
Primary amenorrhea of a patient over 18 years old, or delayed menstrual
cycle with scanty menstruation leading gradually to amenorrhea,
accompanied with constitutional debility, lassitude in the loins and
legs, dizziness, and tinnitus.
Tongue : Red with little coat.
Pulse : Deep and thready
Deficiency of Qi and Blood Gradual delay
of menstruation with very little blood which is thin and reddish,
ultimately leading to amenorrhea accompanied by dizziness, blurred
vision, palpitations, shortness of breath or lusterless hair, emaciation
with sallow complexion.
Blood : Scanty, thin and reddish
Tongue : Pale with thin white coat
Pulse : Deep and weak and sometimes languid.
Qi stagnation and blood stasis.
Amenorrhea for several months, accompanied with restlessness and a
tendency toward being easily angered, feelings of fullness in the chest
and hypochondrium, distending pain in the lower abdomen.
Tongue : Purple spots generally on the
edges of the tongue.
Pulse : Deep and choppy
Treatment Principle :
For deficiency of Liver and Kidney :
Tonify the Liver and Kidney to regulate menstruation.
For deficiency of Qi and Blood :
Tonify the Qi and nourish the blood to regulate menstruation.
For Qi stagnation and blood stasis :
Regulate the Qi and activate the blood to induce menstruation.
Point and Technique Prescription :
For
deficiency of Liver and Kidney
UB 18 Liver shu,
tonifies Liver
UB 23 Kidney shu, tonifies Kidney
Ren 4 Tonifies Kidney
UB 20 Spleen Shu
St 36 He sea point of Stomach channel
Sp 6 Three Leg Yin crossing point.
Spleen and Stomach are the source for producing Qi and Blood. UB 20,
St 36 and Sp 6 all strengthen the function of the Spleen and Stomach which
provides the material basis for the acquired constitution. Postnatal Qi
and Blood assists the prenatal in the Kidneys.
St 29 for the return
of the menstrual cycle.
For deficiency of Qi and Blood
UB 17 The Influential
point of Blood
Ren 6 The "Sea of Qi" for tonifying Qi.
UB 20 Spleen Shu
St 36 He sea point of Stomach channel
Sp 6 Three Leg Yin crossing point.
Spleen/Stomach are the source of producing the Qi and Blood, strengthen
the Qi and Blood.
St 29 for the return
of the menstrual cycle.
For Qi stagnation and blood stasis
Ren 3 Regulates the Chong and Ren channels which induce menstruation.
St 29 for the return of the menstrual cycle.
Sp 8 Xi cleft point for removing blood and Qi stagnation. The Qi and
Blood are very deep at the Xi cleft points. It is easy for the Qi and
blood to become stagnant here, so we choose this point to break up Blood
and Qi stagnation
Sp 10 "Sea of Blood", activates blood to induce menstruation.
Sp 6 activates blood
L.I.4 Yuan source point of L.I. channel regulates Qi
Liv 3 Yuan source
point of Liver channel regulates Liver Qi and activates the blood.
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