What are the viewpoints of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) on the relationship between “renal deficiency” and climacteric syndrome?
Though there is no disease name of climacteric syndrome in TCM, but a great number of recordings about climacteric syndrome can be found in literatures of all ages. The modern TCM is diagnosed climacteric syndrome as “pre-postmenstrual syndromes”, and several recipes with prominent efficacy are developed, their therapeutic effects on climacteric syndrome are definitely outstanding, and Feminasia Capsule is one representative drug. TCM believes that “kidney is the origin of congenital constitution”, and masters reproduction, growth and development. When renal function is gradually thriving, female menstruation onset is induced, and reproductive capacity increases; when renal functions decline, female menstruation gradually stops, and reproductive capacity declines or returns to zero. Therefore, deficit of essentia and pneuma, i.e. renal deficiency is the initial reason for the decline of menstruation and reproduction, and it is the root to cause pre-postmenstrual syndromes. That means t
