The herbs below balance the hormones-progesterone, estrogen, etc. centering the symptoms related to:

• Hot flashes & night seats
• Feeling overwhelmedAching joints all over
• Minor to major depression
• Fatigue
• Poor digestion
• Insomnia or restless sleep
• Constipation/diarrhea
• Weight gain
• Fibroids
• Loss of desire
• Moods swings & irritability
• Cravings for sweet, carbohydrates or alcohol
• Anxiety
• Memory problems & fuzzy thinking
• Vaginal dryness
• Hair loss
• Urinary problems
• Dry skin

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

Indications:

• Blood deficiency, when affecting the Heart and Liver = palid, ashen complexion, lusterless nails, tinnitus, blurred vision, and palpitations, irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, and dysmenorrhea
• Abdominal pain, traumatic injury, and carbuncles due to blood stasis, especially accompanied by cold from deficiency.
• Dry intestines due to blood deficiency

Actions:

• 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 where its ability to both tonify and invigorate the blood leads to improvement. Also used topically for this purpose
• 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

Indications:

• Alternating fever and chills, fullness of chest and hypochondria
• Prolapse, abnormal sinking of Gall Bladder or Stomach energy
• Exterior wind-heat, fire constraint in Liver or Gallbladder
• Deficiency consumption with steaming bones and tidal fever
• Liver energy stagnation
• Heat entering the blood chamber, energy constraint, puerperal fever

Actions:

• Resolves lesser heat disorders
• Raises the energy
• Releases the muscle layer
• Clears heat from excess consumption
• Relieves energy constraint
• Regulates menstruation
• Guides herbal benefits to the eyes and ears

Chai Hu (Bupleuri Radix) has a rising, spreading, and draining nature with a relatively good heat-clearing action, particularly for eliminating a pathogen. It also regulates Liver energy to relieve constraint.

The range of symptoms includes chills and fever associated with a lesser yang stage pathogen, prolapse or diarrhea resulting from the sinking of yang qi, distending pain in the chest and flanks plus menstrual irregularity due to Liver energy constraint, skin conditions, and diseases of the eye and ear.

3. Sclerotium Poriae Cocos

Indications:

• Spleen deficiency with dampness, phlegm, and thin mucus (palpitations, headache, dizziness, and thick, greasy tongue coating)
• Middle burner dampness (loss of appetite, diarrhea, epigastric distention), generalized edema
• Insomnia, palpitations, or forgetfulness due to insufficiency of the Heart and Spleen or internal obstruction of turbid phlegm

Actions:

• Strengthens the Spleen, harmonizes the middle
• Promotes urination, eliminates dampness
• Quiets the Heart, calms the spirit (treats insomnia and palpitations)

This herb tonifies the Heart, Spleen, and Lungs, while it facilitates the water pathways, unblocks the orifices, and expels pathogenic heat. Its particular characteristic is harmony in both tonification and in promoting urination, supporting the normal while expelling the pathogenic, and is therefore especially appropriate when the Spleen is deficient and there is a simultaneous overabundance of dampness with such symptoms as phlegm and thin mucus, diarrhea, and edema. This harmonious set of functions, which allows the herb to promote urination without injuring 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.

4. Radix Paeoniae Lactiflorae

Indications:

• Menstrual dysfunction, vaginal discharge, and uterine bleeding accompanied by a pale, lusterless complexion, and dull, lusterless nails
• Flank, chest, or abdominal pain from either unnatural Liver energy or disharmony between the Liver and Spleen
• Spontaneous sweating, vaginal discharge and spermatorrhea

Actions:

• Nourishes the blood and regulates the menses
• Calms and curbs the Liver yang and alleviates pain
• Preserves and adjusts the nutritive and protective levels

The Liver governs the tendons (sinews), which cramp and spasm if unsupported by the liver blood. Radix Paeoniae Lactiflorae tonifies the Liver Blood 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 Heart, and the "sea of blood", which refers to the Womb and its associated vessels. If Heart lacks the support of Liver blood = palpitations and insomnia Womb lacks the support of Liver blood = irregulat menstruation, infertility or dysmenorrheal. Radix Paeoniae Lactiflorae enters the Spleen channel and supports the Spleen when it is approached and stopped by rebellious Liver energy. It cools, nourishes and controls the yin and assists in nightsweats due to yin deficiency.

5. Atractylodes Rhizoma - White

Indications:

• Fatigue, diarrhea, poor appetite, edema, painful obstruction due to dampness
• Spontaneous sweating
• Threatened miscarriage due to Spleen deficiency

Actions:

• Tonifies the Spleen energy, dries dampness
• Stabilizes the exterior, stops sweating
• Calms the fetus

Atractylodes Rhizoma is an essential herb for tonifying the Spleen and Stomach when dampness obstructs the middle burner. It clears earth dampness - the earth includes the muscles and flesh - and thereby restores harmony and halts sweating Fetal energy is linked to the Spleen: if the Spleen is deficient then the Girdle (vessel) has not support and miscarriage readily occurs.

Tonifies spleen and stomach deficiency showing symptoms of diarrhea, fatigue, lack of appetite and vomiting. Dries dampness removing obstructions. Stops sweating. Calms the fetus due to raising the yang of the spleen.

6. Gardeniae Fructus

Indications:

• Warm disease with agitation and insomnia, heat in the chest
• Jaundice, urinary difficulty
• Nosebleed, hematuria, vaginal hemorrhage, qi-level constraint leading to heat in blood
• Heat toxin sores (topically)

Actions:

• Unblocks constrained heat
• Directs damp-heat out through urine
• Cools the blood and stops bleeding
• Breaks up toxic accumulation

Gardeniae Fructus is bitter , cold, and downward-directing in nature, but the downward precipitation is gradual. It is best at colling 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 clumped qi. It is an essential herb for the treatment of heat in the chest.

7. Moutan Cortex

Indications:

• Clears ascending Liver fire, cools heat from deficiency
• Heat entering the blood level
• Blood stasis patterns

Actions:

• Clears heat
• Cools the blood
• Invigorates the blood

This herb enables to drain heat, invigorates the blood, disperses stagnation, and vents lurking heat in the body.

8. Zingiberis Rhizoma recens - (ginger)

Indications:

• Exterior wind-cold
• Nausea and vomiting from Stomach cold
• Profuse phlegm, coughing, and wheezing from Lung cold

Actions:

• Induces sweating
• Warms the center
• Stops coughs

Ginger opens phlegm and regulates qi, alleviating nausea and vomiting, and driving out all extrernally contracted abnormal pathogenic qi. If only its peel is used, its warm nature is somewhat reduced, but is excellent for unblocking urination. Sheng Jiang (ginger) should be added in small amounts to food, where it strengthens the Stomach. However, one should know that ir people with boils and sores consume it, scars and lumps will be generated.

9. Glycyrrhizae Radix (Licorice)

Indications:

• Spleen deficiency with shortness of breath, lassitude, and loose stools, energy or blood deficiency with irregular pulse or palpitations
• Cough and wheezing
• Carbuncles, sores, or sore throat due to fire toxin
• Painful spasms of the abdomen or legs
• Moderates formulas with harsh properties, antidote for poisoning or effects of toxic herbs

Actions:

• Tonifies the Spleen energy, augments the qi (usually prepared)
• Moistens the Lungs, stop coughs (usually prepared)
• Clears heat, relieves fire toxicity (unprepared)
• Moderates spasms, alleviates pain
• Harmonizes the qualities of other herbs, antidote

Enters all 12 channels (meridians) via the Heart, Lung, Spleen and Stomach channels.

Unprepared: it is cooling and drains fire and resolves toxicity; reduces swollen sores, eases sore throat, dispels urinary tract pain. Prepared: it tonifies the qi of the Spleen and Heart. It is warming and tonifies the middle. Its primary actions are to tonify the Spleen and augment the qi, moisten the Lungs and stop coughs, moderate acuteness or urgency (such as acute pain).

Invigorates the spleen and improves the Ki. Beneficial for weakness, short breath, poor appetite, exhaustion, loose stools. Replenishes the blood and balances the pulse. Stops coughing by moistening the lungs. Brings a neutral balance to the lungs. Clears heat fire due to toxicity for mouth and throat sores. Reduces pain and spasms in the legs and abdomen. Due to the harmonizing effects of licorice, cold and hot as well as any toxicity are offset. Kamcho opens up all the channels thus serves to transport other herbal effects to all parts of the body. Licorice is also used as an antidote for many toxic substances, inside and outside the body.

10. Menthae Haplocalycis Herba

Indications:

• Exterior wind-heat affecting head, eyes, or throat; unexpressed rashes
• Liver energy constraint
• Warm pathogen causing focal distention, nausea and reflux

Actions:

• Disperses wind-heat
• Promotes energy flow
• Expels turbid filth

Menthae haplocalycis Herba enters the Lung and Liver channels, is acrid, cool, light in nature, aromatic, and dispersing. Its lightness floats and ascends while its sweet aroma unblocks the orifices. Its best effect is to facilitate the dispersal of wind-heat in the upper burner while treating the effects of wind-heat on the orifices of the head. Its sweat-inducing effect is quite strong. For this reason it is often used to treat sores and rashes on the skin, headache and red eyes, superficial visual obsturctions, sore throat, and mouth ulcers.

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 constructed at Longevity Mountain. The formula has been combined to the right amount of each herb to optimze results for women. You can access a brochure on menopause at Longevity Mountain.

Mark Hammer C.M.H. with Longevity Mountain