WHY IS THE MENSTRUAL CYCLE IMPORTANT IN TRADITIONAL EASTERN MEDICINE?
In Traditional Eastern medicine theory, women and men have different physiologies. Women have more ‘yin’ characteristics and they tend to attract diseases that are more ‘substance’ related. In the other hand, men have more ‘yang’ characteristics which attracts diseases that are more ‘energy’ related. Diseases with ‘energy’ characteristics are ones that are usually related to body stamina like lethargy or chronic fatigue syndrome. So, men usually become sick when they expend too much energy by overexertion. The characteristic of the body’s ‘yin’ is closely connected with the ‘blood’. So to speak, we can say that women’s diseases are closely connected to the blood. In Traditional Eastern medicine, the uterus is the major organ that controls the blood, so it is from here that almost all blood related diseases can be controlled. By analyzing the menstrual status, we can conjecture the state of the uterus, and also speculate the general health status of the women’s body. WHAT CAUSES MENSTRU
