How to reduce the abdominal cramping pain?
- Boil ginger, dried tangerine peel with brown sugar – drink to immediately calm down the cramping
- Spinach soup boiled for 30 minutes
- Tea from hawthorn berries and cinnamon
How to reduce lower back soreness during PMS?
- Put a heating pad on the area – this could help with abdominal cramp too
How to handle the mood swing during PMS?
- Take Vitamins to balance your hormones. You will need a blood work to find out what your body is deficient in. Then get an advice from a nutritionist.
Lab work
- Vitamin B deficient?
- Magnesium Deficient?
- Calcium Deficient?
- Vitamin E deficient?
Lifestyle changes:
- Regular exercise
- Avoid eating icing cold foods
- Vitamin B6 – reduces effects of estrogen. 200-400 mg per day for at least 3 months
- Magnesium – (if deficient)
- Calcium – (if your body is deficient)
- Vitamin A – increases progesterone level - 100,000 IU per day
- Vitamin E – (if your body is deficient) – 300 IU / day
Psychospiritual metaphors :
- Rejection of feminine role
- Associated with anxiety and stress
- Unresolved issues around femininity, sexuality, or conception
- Allowing confusion to reign: giving power to outside influences; rejection of feminine processes
TCM Psychophysiology: When the following organs are unbalanced, you could experience PMS.
Liver – houses the ethereal soul. Maintains the smooth flow of Qi and Blood. Has an intimate relationship with the genitals; and reflects the emotional harmony and movement.
Heart – houses the spirit. It rules the blood and its vessels and directs the circulation; It relates the integration of the organs and the personality.
Spleen – governs the digestion. It governs the blood and holds them within the vessels; It resolves dampness and phlegm. It relates the ability to assimilate, stabilize, and feel centered and balanced.
Affirmation
- I now take charge of my mind and my life
- I am a powerful, dynamite woman!
- Every part of my body functions perfectly.
- I LOVE ME!