Many women experience menstrual cramps and pain either on the left or the right of the abdomen, it is due to liver qi 0r blood stagnation disturbing the development of follicles in the ovaries. The cramps and pain can be reduced or avoid by adjusting the daily diet, life style or with the help of Chinese herbs. We will discuss symptoms, causes and treaments of liver qi stagnation causes of ovulation phrase of menstrual cycle.

I. Symptoms of liver qi stagnation
1. Pain or discomfort anywhere along the sides of the body, including abdomen cramps and pain
2. Depression
3. Nervous tension Including mood swings, emotional and physical stress and frusdtration
4. Hiccups
5. Unreasonable anger
6. Difficulty swallowing
7. Premenstrual syndrome
8. Swollen breasts
9. Irregular period
10. Painful periods
11. Etc.

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Many women experience menstrual cramps and pain either on the left or the right of the abdomen, it is due to liver qi 0r blood stagnation disturbing the development of follicles in the ovaries. The cramps and pain can be reduced or avoid by adjusting the daily diet, life style or with the help of Chinese herbs. We will discuss how to liver qi stagnation causes of ovulation phrase of menstrual cycle.

I. Symptoms of liver qi stagnation
1. Pain or discomfort anywhere along the sides of the body, including abdomen cramps and pain
2. Depression
3. Nervous tension Including mood swings, emotional and physical stress and frusdtration
4. Hiccups
5. Unreasonable anger
6. Difficulty swallowing
7. Premenstrual syndrome
8. Swollen breasts
9. Irregular period
10. Painful periods
11. Etc.

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In traditional Chinese medicine, qi is defined as a substance contains properties of motion and invisibility. It comes from 3 sources
1. Primordial qi ( Heredity)
2. Inhaled qi ( Air inhaled by lung)
3. Qi essence (Absorbed from food by spleen)

I. Symptoms of qi deficiency
1. Shortness of breath
2. Fatigue, loose stools
3. Dizziness,
4. Pale face,
5. Weakened voice/reluctance to speak,
6. Sweating with little exertion
7. Loose stool
8. Etc.

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Spleen is an organ responsible for foods absorption and transformation food essence and qi to the body organs, deficiency of spleen qi causes not enough energy being transport to kidney, leading to kidney qi deficiency that disturbs the normal process of kidney in regulating each step of menstrual cycle, including phrase I.

I. Symptoms
1. Shallow breathing
It is caused by the inability of spleen in controlling the upright qi and assisting the function of kidney in moving qi upward.

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Since the balance of kidney yin and kidney yang is important in maintaining the kidney function in qi and fluid distribution, if it’ function is disrupted, pathological changes take place and illness occurs. Kidney yang deficiency in traditional Chinese medicine, is defined as condition of deficiency of vital yang energy due to intake of cool and cold or/ and working in cold environment for a prolonged period of time.

Since the yin phrase is dominated by yin with subordinated yang, deficiency of yang may increase the risk of fluid accumulation and lower body temperature thus decreasing BBT temperature in this phrase
I. Symptoms
1. Cold limbs
2. Pale tongue with white coating, pallor, soreness and
3. Weakness
4. Tiredness
5. Dizziness
6. Impotence,
7. Infertility
8. Prolonged yin phase or a
9. Low BBT temperatures
10. Etc.

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Blood stagnation is defined as a condition of blood can not move freely due to liver qi deficiency, kidney essence depletion spleen’s inability in qi distribution and liver’s inability in blood formation, etc. Women who feel cramps and pain in the ovulation phrase in the left or right side of the abdomen can be caused by blood stagnation.

I. Symptoms
1. Dark, clotted vagina discharge
2. Painful menstruation
3. Irregular menstruation
4. Abdominal cramps andpain
5. Stabbing and sharp pain
6. Purple tongue
7. Wiry pulse
8. Etc.

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Painful ovulation is defined as a condition of blood and qi can not move freely due to liver qi and blood deficiency, as liver is the primary organ in preparing to transfer the yin to yang for the start of the yang phrase of menstrual cycle. Women feel cramps and pain in the ovulation phrase in the left or right side of the abdomen can be caused by either qi or blood stagnation or both.

I. Causes
A) In conventional medicine, painful ovulation is defined as a condition caused by a small leakage of blood from the ovary occurring at the time of ovulation, leading to irritation of the abdominal wall resulting in cramps and pain in either left or right side of the abdomen depending to which side of ovaries is responsible for the development of follicles.

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Some women may experience sore breast and irritability during ovulation phrase of menstrual cycle.They are defined as conditions of liver qi can not move blood freely due to liver qi stagnation.

I. Causes
1. Spleen qi deficiency
Stomach is the primary organ in digestive food essence after foods are eaten. If for what ever reason, the stomach can not digest food properly, it may cause the inability of spleen in absorb food qi and essence for our body needs, leading to spleen qi deficiency, resulting in disturbing the qi formation and transporting it to the liver to move blood, leading to liver qi stagnation cause of sore breast and irritability.

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In conventional medicine, high FSH is defined as a condition of the follicles do not respond to the FSH, causing the pituitary gland to produce even more FSH to stimulate the response of ovaries in follicle production. In traditional Chinese medicine, high FSH is defined as the process of the continuous surging of yin can not stimulate the ovarian to produce the follicle, because of yin deficiency, leading to pituitary gland producing more FSH hormone. Herbs, acupuncture and foods used to treat kidney yin deficiency cause of high level FSH include

I. Herbs

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In traditional Chinese medicine, high FSH is defined as the process of the continuous surging of yin which cannot stimulate the ovarian to produce the follicle because of yin deficiency. This leads to the pituitary gland producing even more FSH hormone. Herbs, acupuncture and foods that are used to treat high levels of FSH caused by liver qi stagnation are:

A. Herbs
a) Bai shao (White peony)
This cool herb has been used in TCM in calming liver yang, preserving liver yin and nourishing blood.

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