MENOPAUSE IS NOT A HORMONE IMBALANCE!

" If there is heat, cool it;
if there is cold, warm it;
if there is dryness, moisten it;
if there is dampness, dry it;
if there is vacuity, supplement it;
and if there is excess,
drain it."

Nei Jing,
Yellow Emperor's Classics of Internal Medicine

Traditional Chinese Medicine perspective: Menopause is considered a deficiency condition of the liver and qi (life force). When the blood and energy quality is weak and toxic then all of the organs are not able to perform their job. This condition causes the liver to overheat which rises through the body, wreaking havoc in its path. The heart, lungs, digestion, glands, throat, mouth & teeth, nose, eyes, ears, brain, skin and hair become heated and dried resulting in the symptoms, listed above. In addition, the liver does not filter the blood where it becomes sluggish and clotted.

Because the body is deficient of essential body energy and quality filtered blood, then the glands do not perform normally. Their secretions may be sporadic or non-releasing altogether. When the blood is filtered, normally, enriched then all the body's organs improve. Gradually, the energy comes back and they are able to function normally. The glandular functions, secrete once again, assisting the body in its healthy function.

The body is not absent of hormones. The blood is clogged like sludge. Glands are not receiving/transmitting essential messages, timely and/or minimally!

Then why do we add or give more hormones. Doesn't that risk an overload of hormones? Remember when you were a kid and your hormones were super revved. We don't want to risk going through that again. We have enough hormones. If we nourish our blood, exercise, sleep, manage stress, etc. our hormones come back and supports increased balance.

So if Chinese medicine knows the problem, then what is their answer to this to this deficiency? Look below.

Traditional Chinese Medicine has 20+ formulas for menopause. But which one is the best? This requires a seasoned Master herbalist to respond to this. While most women fall into 6 major constitution types such as:

• cold
  
• damp
  
• deficient
  
• hot
  
• dry
  
• excess
  

Most menopausal women benefit 95% of the time from Menopause Comfort. The exception is during the summertime. Some women, who are more hot than the usual population, require a colder formula, Paramalin, to offset the excess internal heat produced in the liver.

Additional Information on Menopause:

• TOP 4 MENOPAUSE SYMPTOMS
  
• SPIRITUAL MEANING UNDERLYING DISEASES
  

Black Cohosh is used to treat fever in Chinese Medicine not hot flash or surge of heat stemming from the liver overheating. Yet, Black Cohosh is touted as a base for alot of American herbal formulas. Many women who use will report that the benefit either wears off rapidly or there wasn't a benefit at all. The manufacturers seem to not listen, read or not comprehend the vast body of knowledge on herbs for this condition. There are better choices of Chinese herbs which have proven to be effective for hundreds of years on millions of patients. Most Chinese master herbalists understand that after millions of subjects there isn't much need to research what is obvious, tried and proven. Its appropriate to apply the RIGHT FORMULA to the right constitution and symptoms, not just the symptoms.

Who Can You Trust To Buy Menopause
Herbs From?

I know what I have to say may sound arrogant but its time for a master herbalist to call this for what it is. Most of the menopause products are created based on 3 processes:

• a single supplement/herb wonder
  
• a combination of past researched supplements/herbs with an addition of the latest fad herb
  
• in most cases a newbie manufacturer/distributer copies another company's product that is selling well

The result is that it is difficult for the consumer to determine what works.

So how do you know what works?

When you do not know the ins and outs of the herb supplement industry, it is not easy to discern what is going to be effective. Anybody can produce testimonials but long term repeatable, sustainable results are very challenging to produce. Even the research that is presented is not the full story but rather a spin on the research to move you to buy a particular product. In most cases, the manufacturer may truely believe they have a formula that will work based on misinformation on a herb's benefits.

Unknown to most customers, herb grade or quality of herb is just as important as the choice of herb. For instance, Red Panax ginseng, has, basically, 8 different grades of choice. Manufacturers will use a herb which is touted or is being hyped alot in their formulation to attact a purchase. But in the case of ginseng where lower grades are used the effect is not of value. Whereas, in the higher grades, you'll find the benefit. However, Top grade ginseng can go for $1000 an ounce which doesn't make sense to add to a formula. But 3rd grade ginseng though a little expensive, is very beneficial. Large manufacturers and beginning/novice (1-10 years in practice) herbalists may not be aware or not regard these aspects of herbal medicine. However, master herbalists that are sincerely interested in your well-being, with 10+ years of experience, do know and understand that this practice philosophy is essential to a customer/client's well-being and result.

The right herbs for menopause will primarily raise the body's energy and nourish the blood with a result of normalizing the body's thermostat. Indirectly, because the underlying imbalance is recalibrated, all the menopause symptoms listed under this syndrome will begin to dissapate within 2 hours if the correct formula is chosen. For myself, it still gives me a charge every time my clients remark on the relief they have been given. You might want to look at the ingredients or the menopause herbs I use in my formulas that work everyday.

Formula outcomes are very encouraging:

• After 10-60 days on the formula, 38 cases (66%) were judged resolved. This was defined as complete disappearance of all symptoms with no recurrence within one year.
  
• Eighteen cases (31%) were judged improved. This meant that their symptoms basically disappeared or markedly diminished.
  
• Only two case (3%) experienced no effect, meaning that there was no improvement in their symptoms or their condition got worse. Thus the total amelioration rate was 97%.
  

"3000 Years of Chinese Herbal Medicine Provides
the Best Menopause Formulation"


While not all women have to experience extreme symptoms of menopause, enough are disturbed where real relief is essential. The herbs, below, balance the hormones-progesterone & estrogen, cool nourish and stimulate the liver. This improves the blood which assists all the organs in the body which further lifts the body's functioning. The herb selection centers and alleviates the symptoms listed above.

First 5 Herbs that Benefit Menopause

These herbs work best for Menopause symptoms by reducing the typical heat symptoms stemming from the liver managing too much toxicity and/or excess food intake, etc.

1. Radix Angelica Sinensis

Benefits: Blood deficiency related to the Heart and Liver. Especially improves palid, ashen complexion, lusterless nails, tinnitus, blurred vision, and palpitations, irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, and dysmenorrheal, abdominal pain, traumatic injury, and carbuncles due to blood stasis, especially accompanied by cold from deficiency, dry intestines due to blood deficiency. Tonifies the blood and regulates the menses, invigorates and harmonizes the blood and disperses cold, reduces swelling, expels pus, generates flesh, and alleviates pain: used in treating sores and abscesses, treats coughs. Moistens dryness and lubricates the Intestines, Internally, it moistens the organs because of its concentrated fluids and sweetness; externally, it thrusts out to the muscle layer because of its acrid, warm nature.

2. Bupleuri Radix

Bupleurum tonifies the Heart, Spleen, and Lungs, while it facilitates the fluid pathways, Unblocks the orifices and expels heat. Promotes urination, reduces dampness with such symptoms as phlegm and thin mucus, diarrhea, and edema. Supports the body's energy, makes it an important choice for promoting urination and leaching out dampness. It can be used whenever there is urinary difficulty, edema, phlegm, or thin mucus, regardless of whether the condition is hot or cold, deficient or excessive in nature.

3. Sclerotium Poriae Cocos

This herb benefits 1) spleen deficiency with dampness, phlegm which resolves palpitations, headache, dizziness , 2) middle burner dampness (loss of appetite, diarrhea, epigastric distention), generalized edema and 3) heart and spleen deficiency (insomnia, palpitations, or forgetfulness)
This herb tonifies the Heart, Spleen, and Lungs, while it facilitates the water pathways, unblocks the orifices, and expels heat. The herb promotes urination without injuring the body's energy regardless of whether the underlying condition is hot or cold, deficient or excessive.

4. Radix Paeoniae Lactiflorae

The Liver directly relates to tendons (sinews), which can cramp and spasm if unsupported by filtered blood from a normal functioning liver. Radix Paeoniae Lactiflorae elevates the Liver Blood quality and thereby relieves pain (cramped tendons, flanks and abdomen). The Liver stores the blood, and reduced blood storage can affect other blood organs, such as the Heart, and the "sea of blood", which refers to the Womb and its associated vessels. If the Heart lacks the support of Liver blood then palpitations and insomnia follow. If the womb lacks the support of Liver blood then irregular menstruation, infertility or dysmenorrheal presents. Radix Paeoniae Lactiflorae supports the Spleen when the liver is challenged. It cools, nourishes and re-invigorates reduces night sweats.

5. Atractylodes Rhizoma - White

Atractylodes Rhizoma is an essential herb for nourishing the Spleen and Stomach when dampness obstructs its normal functioning. It clears dampness in the muscles and flesh - and thereby restores harmony and halts sweating. Benefits the Spleen when deficient and prevents miscarriage. Benefits: diarrhea, fatigue, lack of appetite and vomiting. Dries dampness removing obstructions. Stops sweating. Calms the fetus.

6. Gardeniae Fructus

Cools fire and heat in the Heart, Lungs, Stomach, Liver, and Triple Burner, eliminating hot irritability in situations such as warm pathogen diseases with agitation and insomnia. Gardeniae Fructus is also good for clearing damp-heat, and is used for jaundice and urinary difficulty, guiding damp-heat out through the urine. Gardeniae Fructus drains Triple Burner fire, cools epigastric heat, treats sensations of heat and pain in the cardiac region, dissipates pent-up heat, and mobilizes blocked energy. It is an essential herb for the treatment of heat in the chest.

7. Moutan Cortex

This herb drains heat, invigorates the blood, disperses stagnation, and vents lurking heat in the body.

8. Zingiberis Rhizoma recens - (ginger)

Ginger opens phlegm and re-energizes, alleviates nausea and vomiting, and driving out all microbes and negative energy. If only its peel is used, its warm nature is somewhat reduced, but is excellent for unblocking urination. Ginger should be added in small amounts to food, where it strengthens the Stomach.

9. Glycyrrhizae Radix (Licorice)

Licorice or glycyrrhizae root, while neutral in temperature, nourishes the body's energy, enters all the body's channels with an emphasis on the heart , lung, spleen and stomach. Benefits: shortness of breath, sluggishness, exhaustion, loose stools, blood deficiency, palpitations, Cough and wheezing, Carbuncles, sores, sore throat, painful spasms (abdomen, legs), clears heat in the body, relieves fire toxicity alleviates pain, harmonizes the qualities of other herbs. Acts as an antidote.

10. Menthae Haplocalycis Herba

Benefits: sores and rashes on the skin, headache and red eyes, superficial visual obstructions, sore throat, and mouth ulcers.

Summary

The combination of herbs synergistically improves all the conditions that are benefited by the herbs singularly.

Would you like to find these herbs contained in proven safe compound that corrects the menopause condition in 2 hours? These herbs can be found in a formula from Longevity Mountain above. The formula has been combined to the right amount of each herb to optimize results for women.

Mark Hammer C.M.H.
Master Herbalist-Asian Medicine
Longevity Mountain
(713) 465-6161

FOODS THAT COOL MENOPAUSE

Cooling Fruit: Apple, Banana, Grapefruit, Kumquat, Loquat, Mandarin orange, Mango, Melons, Pear, Persimmon, Plum, Pomegranates, Red Bayberries, Star Fruit, Tangerine, All citrus, Tomato

Cooling Veggies: Asparagus, Bamboo shoot, Bitter Gourd (Wild cucumber), Bok choy, Broccoli, Button mushroom, Cabbage, Califlower, Celery, Cucumber, Eggplant, Green bean (string), Lettuce, Mung bean, Peas, Pumpkin, Seaweed, Spinach, Sweet corn, Swiss chard, Summer squash, Yam, Zuchini

Cooling Protein: Abalone, Clam, Crab, Cuttlefish, Duck, Duck eggs, Egg White, Kidney Beans, Oyster, Sesame seeds, Sweet Apricot Seed, Tofu, Water chestnut, White bait, Whole Egg

Cooling Miscellaneous: Honey, Olive, Royal Jelly, Tea (Green, Oolong,
Lapsang souchong, and black), Soy milk, Soy sprouts, Tempeh, Mung beans & sprouts, Alfalfa sprouts, Millet, Barley, Amaranth, All seaweeds, Wheat & barley grass, Yogurt

This is not a complete list is a good start. For more info, feel free to conult the herbalist on tis page.

FOOD TO AVOID AND WORSENS MENOPAUSE

Warming Fruit: Cherry, Guava, Jujube, Longan fruit, Litchi fruit, Peach, Plum, Pumpkin

Warming Veggies: Green onion, Red onion, Rice bran, Olive, Basil, Cilantro, Dill Seed, Garlic, Mustards, Radish, Chilli peppers, Horse radish, Clove, Mushrooms (Reshi, Cordeceps, Maitake, Shiitake)

Warming Protein: Caraway seeds, Chestnuts, Peanuts, Walnuts, Chicken
Mutton, Eel, Shrimp, Sesame seeds, Adzuki bean and other similar beans

Warming Miscellaneous: Ginger, Cinnamon, Pepper (white, black, red), Wine, Soy sauce, Ginseng, Astragalus, Brown sugar

CORN SOUP

Ingredients:

• ¼ onion, minced
  
• ½ teaspoon ginger, grated
  
• 1 teaspoon sesame oil
  
• 1, 3-inch piece of kombu
  
• Kernels from 6 ears of corn
  
• 6 cups of water
  
• 1 teaspoon sea salt
  
• ½ cup oatmeal pureed in ½ cup water
  
• 2 tablespoons sesame butter
  
• 2 tablespoons croutons
  

Preparation:

1. Saute onion and ginger for 5 minutes
   
2. Add kombu, corn, water, and salt
   
3. Bring to scald, Reduce heat. Simmer 20 minutes
   
4. Add oat mixture and salt. Simmer 15 minutes more
   
5. Add sesame butter at end of cooking
   
6. Remove kombu
   
7. Garnish with croutons
   
8. Serves 6
   

CHILLED CUCUMBER SOUP

Ingredients:

• 4 cups of cucumber, chopped
  
• 4 cups of water or hot broth
  
• 1 cup oatmeal yogurt
  
• 1 cup rolled oats coarsely ground
  
• 1 cup water
  
• ½ teaspoon unpasteurized soy sauce or miso
  
• 1 clove garlic
  
• Several fresh mint leaves
  
• ½ teaspoon sea salt
  
• ¼ teaspoon dill weed
  

Preparation:

1. Puree everything in the blender
   
2. Serve chilled
   
3. Serves 4-6
   

These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. This reference is a list of dietary supplements and is not intended to diagnose, cure, prevent or treat any diseases. The information here is not provided by medical (allopathic) professionals and is not intended as a substitute for medical advice. Please consult your physician before beginning any course of treatment. However, billions of people have used these products without complication. These herbal formulas have been used in conjunction with allopathic medical regimen, successfully without interference in the restorative process. Complications in the use of herbal remedies has occurred when manufacturers unkowledgeable in the practice of herbalism but more focussed on the profit aspect have provided product too high in concentration. Hopefully, more master herbalists trained in Chinese, Ayurvedic, Tibetan, North and South American herbology can share the more subtle rather than gross practice of herbalism. Appreciatively, more allopathic physicians and institutions are embracing the wonders of natural herbal medicine in their practices.

Mark has been a long term student of herbal traditions from around the world. Any attempts to leave this passion has always resulted in his finding his way back to the health restoration field. Whether it be his own need to keep his balance or those around him, his eventual surrender to the healing way has always offered the most joy and most of all, smiles.

• SENIOR MASTER HERBALIST-CHINESE MEDICINE
  Mark provides Traditional Chinese Medicine assessment, herbal remedies and food therapy. His remedies usually provide relief in 2 hours unless a severe chronic case is presented.
  
• SIFU - TAI CHI (Yang Style)
  Sifu Mark teaches the Short Form (24 steps), Intermediate Form (42 steps), TaiChi Sword (32 steps), TaiChi Fan, Long Form (108 steps)
  
• SPIRITUAL LIFE COACH
  Mark focuses on the Body-Mind-Spirit connection related to physical imbalances.In addition, Mark has been meditating over 35 years which has resulted in his providing a comprehensive spirit coach program-assessment, spiritual grounding & protection, ascension, enlightenment, "Finding Your Life Purpose" and "Cleansing Your Soul Grid", etc.

Mark has over 35 years of health field experience. His primary emphasis is on chronic pain, heart, digestive, respiratory, allergy, hormonal, tumor, weight loss problems, women's needs and the MIND-BODY-SPIRITUAL CONNECTION.