Menopause (Hot Flashes)

"Menopause (Hot Flashes)" Issue / Symptom Connections

Below you will find various relationships to, and potential clinical treatment approaches for menopause (hot flashes).

Content Related to Menopause (Hot Flashes)

It is critical to appreciate that in Chinese Medicine, treatment for "menopause (hot flashes)" is rarely focused on the symptoms exclusively. Alternatively, a practitioner is looking at the factors that led to the development of "menopause (hot flashes)" - i.e. the "cause(s)".

For non-practitioners, we recommend reading treating the "cause" and not the "symptoms" for more on the overall approach and the importance of the TCM diagnostic system in formulating treatment approaches.

Within TCM, "menopause (hot flashes)" is potentially related to one or more of the following diagnostic patterns: kidney jing deficiency, kidney yang deficiency, and/or kidney yin deficiency.

The above patterns are common examples. In clinical situations, however, there are any number of other possibilities. Many times there will be a layered combination of patterns in an interwoven blend with their symptoms - some being the cause of an issue and the result of another issue. While initially complex, this is illustrative of the the web of relationships that Chinese Medicine is designed to approach.

Related Acupuncture Protocols

When developing an acupuncture protocol a practitioner is very often focusing on the causal diagnoses in Chinese Medicine terms, not on the condition itself. To illustrate and guide developing an acupuncture treatment for someone experiencing menopause (hot flashes), this issue is referenced in the following acupuncture protocol section: