Acupuncture for Period Pain

Do you dread that time of the month, ensuring you don’t have big meetings, social times or weekends away? Do you always have painkillers in your bag?

Acupuncture and Chinese herbs are wonderful at treating the pain, and its cause.

There are many kinds of period pain – all are awful, and most are preventable with Chinese medicine.

Does exercise help to clear your pain? Acupuncture will work to circulate your energy and reduce pain. Your herbs may well include Xiang Fu Cypress. This maintains circulation in your uterus during those times you can’t keep on the move.

Is the hottest bath you can stand your period go-to? Acupuncture and Moxabustion to the lower abdomen will help enormously.

A herbal prescription including Wu Zhu Yu Evodia and Gui Zhi Cinnamon twig will warm your uterus and relieve pain.

Does everything feel its dragging down, and your insides might fall out? Or do you have a dull ache, which drags on and on, as does your period? Huang Qi Astragalus may be added to your herbal prescription to relieve that dragging feeling.

Your acupuncturist will assess the qualities of your period pain. She will want to know:

• The detail of when it begins in your cycle, and when it ends.
• How would you describe the quality of that pain? Is it dull, or cramping?
• It maybe a stabbing pain, or it may drag down. She will want to know want makes it better or worse.