Women face unique health challenges at every stage of life. Taking care of your physical and emotional well-being is essential.
If you’re curious about how Chinese Medicine can support women’s health, working with your body’s natural rhythms to bring balance and boost vitality, visit us at AcuMedic Women’s Health Clinic. For over 30 years, we’ve been helping with a wide range of concerns affecting women’s physical, emotional, mental, and sexual health.
Or, get free personalised health advice—let us guide you on how we can help.
How can we help?
Recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), Chinese Medicine offers safe, effective solutions for the hormonal shifts women experience throughout life. Proven through clinical trials, it seems to have a powerful therapeutic effect on a range of gender-specific health concerns.
Research suggests that Chinese Medicine works by restoring hormonal balance and regulating brain chemistry, reducing pain sensitivity and stress. This helps ease tension, and inflammation and promotes a sense of deep relaxation. It also boosts blood flow, revitalising the entire system.
Whether it’s regulating cycles, supporting menstrual health, easing menopausal symptoms, or enhancing fertility and pregnancy, Chinese Medicine works holistically to bring your body back into balance.
The aim is simple: to address the root cause, ease discomfort, and strengthen both mind and body—helping you manage the physical and emotional aspects of your health with more ease.
How quickly will you see results?
Results vary from person to person, depending on the condition and its severity. However, many patients start feeling positive changes within just 4 weeks of using Chinese herbs and having a few acupuncture sessions.
Finding the right treatment may take some time, so we recommend starting with a 3-month (or three menstrual cycles) course. This allows us to track progress and see steady improvement from the first month to the third.
Once the results are taking shape and we focus on maintaining them, we’ll reassess the treatment plan to ensure lasting benefits.
About Women’s Health
Women’s health is a broad term encompassing a wide range of conditions that impact both physical and emotional well-being throughout the many stages of life.
A woman’s body goes through numerous hormonal changes from puberty to menstruation, pregnancy, menopause, and beyond. These ongoing hormonal shifts create an ever-changing environment that is closely tied to emotions, stress levels, nutrition, work-life balance, relationships, and genetics.
Common conditions include:
- Irregular periods
- PMS (premenstrual tension)
- Period pain (dysmenorrhoea)
- Breast and uterine health
- Vaginal health
- Fertility issues
- Menopause
- Osteoporosis
- Inflammatory diseases of the reproductive tract
- And more
During periods of physiological change, women are also more vulnerable to mental health challenges, such as depression and anxiety.
Recognising the essential role of estrogen and hormones, and maintaining a balance between emotional and physical health, is key to living a long, happy, and fulfilling life.
Western Medicine View
In Western medicine, the focus for treating many women’s health conditions is primarily on managing pain and symptoms, often through hormonal therapies and medications aimed at regulating hormone levels. For many women, these treatments are effective, but they often come with side effects that can be uncomfortable or hard to tolerate.
When medications fail to provide sufficient relief or when symptoms become too severe, surgical procedures may be considered. While these can offer temporary relief, they typically don’t address the root cause of the problem and, in some cases, can lead to the issue resurfacing down the line.
However, Western medicine is becoming increasingly open to an integrated approach. Research suggests that combining Western treatments with Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture can significantly reduce the side effects of both medications and surgical procedures.
By addressing underlying imbalances and supporting the body’s natural healing processes, this holistic approach can not only enhance treatment effectiveness but also promote long-term health and well-being, helping women feel better physically and emotionally.
Chinese Medicine View
Chinese Medicine has been addressing women’s health disorders for over 2000 years, with a deep understanding of female physiology as a complex ecosystem reliant on a delicate balance between body, mind, and the environment.
In the Chinese medicine view, women’s health conditions often arise from a temporary imbalance that causes specific organs to function inefficiently, leading to a range of symptoms and ailments. Identifying the root cause and understanding which Zang-fu organ systems are impacted is key to developing an effective treatment plan.
According to Chinese Medicine, the primary cause behind many women’s health issues is “Qi and Blood stagnation.” As a result, treatments focus on unblocking and restoring optimal Qi and Blood flow, replenishing natural fluids, and improving balance throughout the body, while also nourishing emotional and mental health.
The approach involves diagnosing which bodily functions and organs are affected by stagnation and strengthening these areas. This shifts the body into a repair mode, allowing it to heal itself. At the same time, it calms the nervous system, alleviates current symptoms, and works to prevent future issues.
Herbal medicine and acupuncture are often used to help restore the body’s natural rhythm, stabilising hormones and adjusting the body to the physiological changes that come with the various stages of a woman’s life.
Lifestyle Advice
While some conditions affecting women may not have a cure, there are plenty of simple yet powerful strategies you can integrate into your daily routine to enhance your treatments and reduce symptoms.
Watch your diet
- Boost your reproductive health by incorporating more essential fatty acids into your meals. These healthy fats promote blood flow to the uterus and help reduce clotting. Find them in fish, fish oil, flaxseed oil, eggs, soy products, raw nuts, seeds, and vibrant vegetables like broccoli, beets, carrots, kale, cabbage, and cauliflower.
- Cut back on caffeine, sugar, and processed foods, which can trigger inflammation.
- If you’re low on iron or going through menopause, focus on blood-nourishing foods like kidney beans, black beans, beets, black sesame seeds, legumes, spirulina, and eggs—all rich in iron.
Reduce stress
- Make relaxation a priority. Carve out time each day to recharge your mind and body.
- Exercise, meditation, Tai Chi, yoga, or any relaxation techniques can work wonders in restoring energy and easing tension. These practices not only calm the mind but also improve blood circulation throughout the body.
These simple lifestyle changes can help restore balance and improve your health.
For more personalised guidance, feel free to reach out to our fully qualified CMIR-registered physicians with extensive Western medical training.
+ *CLINICAL TRIALS
PRIMARY DYSMENORRHOEA
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MORNING SICKNESS
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De Aloysio D, Penacchioni P. Morning sickness control in early pregnancy by eiguan point acupressure. Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1992 80(5): 852-854.
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PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME
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FEMALE INFERTILITY
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