Hot flashes and sweating are among the earliest symptoms of menopause in women and one of the most common symptoms of menopausal syndrome. Women in menopause often feel waves of heat spreading from their chest and neck to their face, often accompanied by sweating. After the heat evaporates from the skin, they feel cold. Sometimes they only feel hot without flushing or sweating, hence the name hot flashes.
The frequency, severity, and duration of hot flashes vary greatly from person to person. Some people experience them occasionally and for a short time, while others experience them several times a day, lasting from a few seconds to a few minutes. In severe cases, they can have frequent attacks, even once every few minutes, with 30-50 attacks a day, lasting up to 10-15 minutes. Attacks often occur in the afternoon, at dusk, or at night, and are more likely to occur after activity, after eating, or when the body heats up due to excessive clothing or blankets. This can affect mood, work, and sleep, often causing distress for menopausal women.
Traditional Chinese medicine can effectively relieve hot flashes and sweating symptoms; the effect is even better when combined with massage.
Nutritional health products mainly composed of herbs that nourish kidney yin.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that hot flashes and sweating during menopause are mostly caused by yin deficiency and internal heat, hyperactivity of deficient yang, and instability of body fluids. In general, except for severe cases that require medication, most patients can eliminate or alleviate symptoms such as hot flashes and sweating through some effective health care measures and methods. It is recommended to choose nutritional health products mainly composed of herbs that nourish kidney yin, such as donkey-hide gelatin and he shou wu juice, turtle jelly, golden turtle tablets, and Solomon's seal crystals containing ingredients such as Ganoderma lucidum, white fungus, yam, Rehmannia glutinosa, Polygonum multiflorum, wolfberry, privet fruit, and Cornus officinalis.
Acupressure massage is also effective for hot flashes and sweating during menopause.
The specific method is as follows: First, massage the Liver Shu (1.5 cun lateral to the spinous process of the ninth thoracic vertebra) and Kidney Shu (1.5 cun lateral to the spinous process of the second lumbar vertebra) on the back. Next, use your thumb to press the Touwei (0.5 cun directly above the hairline at the corner of the forehead), Baihui (directly above the ear tip, at the center of the top of the head), and Fengchi (in the depression between the sternocleidomastoid and trapezius muscles at the back of the neck). Finally, massage the Quchi (at the midpoint of the line connecting the outer end of the elbow crease and the lateral epicondyle of the humerus) and Neiguan (2 cun above the wrist crease, between the palmaris longus tendon and the flexor carpi radialis tendon) on the upper limbs.
In severe cases, hormone replacement therapy is usually used.
This involves administering drugs with sex hormone activity from outside the body to supplement insufficient hormone secretion, thereby regulating the body's endocrine system and correcting various health problems caused by sex hormone deficiency.
