Many premenopausal women suffer premenstrual syndrome before / during / after their monthly menstruation. Often people believe PMS is normal. Actually, it is not. According to the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), PMS is due to unbalanced circulation of Qi/energy, blood, or phlegm obstruction. Acupuncture treatments or Herbal treatments could help to relieve PMS by addressing its underlying root causes.

How to reduce the abdominal cramping pain?

• Boil ginger, dried tangerine peel with brown sugar – drink to immediately calm down the cramping
• Spinach soup boiled for 30 minutes
• Tea from hawthorn berries and cinnamon

How to reduce lower back soreness during PMS?

• Put a heating pad on the area – this could help with abdominal cramp too

How to handle the mood swing during PMS?

• Take Vitamins to balance your hormones. You will need a blood work to find out what your body is deficient in. Then get an advice from a nutritionist.

Lab work

• Vitamin B deficient?
• Magnesium Deficient?
• Calcium Deficient?
• Vitamin E deficient?

Lifestyle changes:

• Regular exercise
• Avoid eating icing cold foods
• Vitamin B6 – reduces effects of estrogen. 200–400 mg per day for at least 3 months
• Magnesium – (if deficient)
• Calcium – (if your body is deficient)
• Vitamin A – increases progesterone level – 100,000 IU per day
• Vitamin E – (if your body is deficient) – 300 IU / day

Psychospiritual metaphors :

• Rejection of feminine role
• Associated with anxiety and stress
• Unresolved issues around femininity, sexuality, or conception
• Allowing confusion to reign: giving power to outside influences; rejection of feminine processes

TCM Psychophysiology: When the following organs are unbalanced, you could experience PMS.

• Liver – houses the ethereal soul. Maintains the smooth flow of Qi and Blood. Has an intimate relationship with the genitals; and reflects the emotional harmony and movement.
• Heart – houses the spirit. It rules the blood and its vessels and directs the circulation; It relates the integration of the organs and the personality.
• Spleen – governs the digestion. It governs the blood and holds them within the vessels; It resolves dampness and phlegm. It relates the ability to assimilate, stabilize, and feel centered and balanced.

Affirmation

• I now take charge of my mind and my life
• I am a powerful, dynamite woman!
• Every part of my body functions perfectly.
• I LOVE ME!