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Traditional Chinese approach like acupuncture and herbal medicine is effective in treating disorders in women. Compared to surgery and other modern approaches, herbal medicine is less expensive and has no side-effects.
Ever wondered how preventative medicine and Oriental medicine can address issues regarding health of women? In the Chinese tradition of gynecology and obstetrics, an important technique is skillfully applying herbal medicine. In reality, aside from herbs, roots, barks, flowers and fruits are usually included. Acupuncture and herbal medicine can help in the treatment of gynecologic disorders like infertility, hormonal imbalance, post-pregnancy disorders, premenstrual problems, and irregularity in periods, heavy bleeding, endometriosis, pain in the pelvic area, symptoms for menopausal period and lunar cycle disorders. Experience suggests that acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicines are more effective and much less unpleasant and risky than hormonal treatments, over-the-counter drugs, or surgery for treatment of many disorders experienced by women. Acupuncture and herbal medicine is quite reasonably priced compared to these methods of treatment. The cost of surgical and complex hormonal therapy costs 40 to 100 times more and may be highly risky. Therapy using drugs is expensive and may have side-effects, surgery may prove unsuccessful and may have serious and life-threatening side effects and infections. Skillful application of acupuncture therapy and traditional medicine prepared from different herbs is effective in the correction of majority of complex disorders in the physical aspect and hormones which may reduce infertility, painful periods accompanied by imbalance of emotion, tenderness of the breast, and cravings, as well as, menstrual headaches, acne, digestive problems and sexual function disorders. Enough time and commitment to correct the body’s system is required in acupuncture. For menstrual problems, treatment begins until the achievement of at least 3 normal cycles. Afterwards, six to eighteen months is needed to achieve pregnancy. Time will prove that traditional treatment methods like acupuncture will alleviate the suffering of many types of modern disorders at a reasonable price. Modern and traditional systems are balanced in their view of disease. Researching on how normal physiology fails and cause diseases is the modern emphasis. When located, therapy is given to directly fix the error, and hopefully eradicate the disease. This view of disease and the ensuing treatment method has been extremely successful in many areas. Yet some conditions and syndromes cannot be corrected at all by this approach, and others may not produce a complete response. Often the exact procedure at the cause of the disease is undiscovered, or there is no specific therapy existing. There is a difference in the traditional medical approach. The mechanism of the disease as well as the manifestation of the disease in the individual patient is not the concern of the physician.
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