TCM Gynecology: Herbal Treatment for Deficient Types

Summary:
Deficient types will often present with the following:

Hypomenorrhea (月经量少)
Oligomenorrhea (月经后期)
Amenorrhea (闭经)
Infertility (不孕)
Miscarriage (自然流产)

In this article, we will only discuss the first two diseases in the context of the deficient type.
For Hypomenorrhea:
With hypomenorrhea, we usually see cold and deficiency as the main causes. however there are also ‘heat’ cases and ‘replete’ cases — especially the [...]

Bleeding in TCM Gynecology: Etiologies

For menostaxis (经期延长):
Qi deficiency (气虚) causes chongren to lose control (冲任失约); or
Heat disturbs the chongren (热扰冲任) causing a loss of calm in the sea of blood (血海不宁)
Blood Stasis obstructs the chongren (瘀阻冲任), and hence blood does not flow in the vessels (血不循经).
For 经间期出血:
Internal Movement of Yang Qi
For 崩漏:
The chongren is unable to hold in (冲任不固), [...]

Abdominal Pain in TCM Gynecology: Etiologies

Similar Etiology:
The etiology (病机) for abdominal pain is similar for three types of conditions: Dysmenorrhea (痛经), Abdominal Pain during Pregnancy (妊娠腹痛) and P0stpartum Abdominal Pain (产后腹痛) have the same etiology
The etiology: Inhibited movement of Qi and Blood (气血运行不畅).
In the case of repleteness, it is because when there is stoppage, there is pain (不通则痛). In the [...]

Climateric Syndrome and yin-yang

善用针者，从阴引阳，从阳引阴。(The Yellow Emperor’s Internal Classic)
The quoted phrase means that you derive yin and yang from each other. This is applicable in the case in acupuncture – this is the context of the sentence – but also applies when talking about hormonal changes, especially in women’s diseases.
For example, we know that progesterone – which comes from [...]

Comparing Dr. Wang Juxiang’s treatment of mammary, ovarian and cervical cancer.

Base Formula:

党参10，黄芪30
炒白术10
猪苓10，茯苓10
法半夏10，陈皮6
焦山楂10，焦神曲10炒谷芽10，

Some differences:

While the liver dredging triplet -– 柴胡10，白芍10，广郁金10 – exists for breast and ovarian cancer, it does not appear in the base formula for cervical cancer.
Lower jiao herbs are present in the formulas for ovarian and cervical cancer. Probably used when there is evidence of damp heat draining downward (湿热下注). E.g. 知母10，炒黄柏10 is used as a [...]

Cancer: Lab Tests

Below, I will present — for those new to them — the significance in the broadest sense of each of the following tumor markers.
General Marker CEA:
CEA (Carcinoembryonic antigen) is an inadequate marker — as a diagnostic tool, an elevated CEA too often provides false positives. Most elevated levels that are true positive appear at late [...]