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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I. Definition
Liver qi stagnation is a health condition of which the liver can not move qi smoothly in the liver channels and blood in the blood vessels, due to prolonged liver qi deficiency or liver damage as a result of overwhelming toxin accumulated in the body and poor diet.

II. Symptoms of liver qi stagnation
1. Depression
2. Anger disorders
3. Mood swing
4. Premenstrual disorders – PMS,
5. Abnormal abdomen cramps and pain
6. Abnormal cells growth including endometriosis and cysts
7. High blood pressure
8. Nervous tension including headaches and migraine

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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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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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I. Definition
Deficiency of blood is defined as a condition of liver’s inability to perform its function of blood formation leading to qi stagnation in the body, as a result of liver damage or the inability of spleen in food essence and qi distribution, leading to abnormal function of the liver organ.

II. Symptoms of blood deficiency
1. Abdominal pain after menstruation
2. Period is thin and volume is small
3. Tiredness
4. Loose stools
5. Pale complexion
6. Etc

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I. Definition
Qi deficiency is defined as a condition of spleen inability to transport qi to the body organs due to abnormal function of the stomach, spleen or intake of oily and greasy or cold and raw foods for a prolonged period of time.

II. Symptoms of qi deficiency
1. Tiredness
2. Loose stool
3. Pale complexion
4. sweating with no exertion
5. Abdominal pain during/after menstruation
6. Period is thin and volume is small
7. Etc.

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