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Some Recommendations for Addressing Amenorrhea

One of the causes of female infertility is amenorrhea or an absence of a woman’s menstrual cycle. Amenorrhea can be caused by various factors. One cause may be severe physical or emotional stress. For example, a female athlete who exerts too much physical stress may not ovulate because her body will not allow her to get pregnant. In order to preserve her energy for an athletic event, her body will forego the chance of pregnancy. The same effect happens when a woman is under heavy emotional stress. The stress will not permit her body to ovulate. A lot of doctors observe that severe stress is causing a lot of woman to cease ovulation, which of course, causes amenorrhea.

Amenorrhea can also be due to poor nutrition. A lot of women who are vegetarian or vegan suffer from amenorrhea because they basically lack cholesterol and fats in the body. These women think that the way they eat makes them healthy. However, they often look pale, and are usually frail and weak. To be really considered healthy, one needs to eat a diet rich in cholesterol and fats to foster hormone production that can stimulate ovulation. A woman will have her menstrual period once ovulation occurs.

Birth control pills or to put it more accurately, after discontinuing their use, can also result in amenorrhea. When you use ingest or use synthetic hormones, your pituitary gland will stop supplying your body with hormones since you are getting it from somewhere else.

Chinese Medicine Treatments for Amenorrhea

Chinese medicine practitioners usually recommend a few months of Chinese herbal therapy and acupuncture to restore a woman’s normal menstrual cycle. It also wouldn’t hurt if the patient lowers her stress and follow a diet that promotes fertility to help her regain the natural flow of ovulation.

Other reasons for amenorrhea include heredity, PCOS and obesity. A combination of acupuncture and herbs can help address these three factors. There are occasions when the practitioner will encounter cases in which a woman may, for example, experience two or three periods during a year. Oftentimes, these women lack enough or have no cervical fluid which is an indication of a forthcoming ovulation.

After starting on a treatment of Chinese herbs and acupuncture, most of these women may begin to produce cervical fluid that will enable them to ovulate. When ovulation does come, they then expect the onset of a period after two weeks. If ovulation fails, their body will keep on attempting till they successfully ovulate. As a woman’s body becomes healthier, she gradually will experience more normal menstrual cycles.

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