How Fruitful is Acupuncture In Treating the Menopausal Symptoms?

Menopause is the unavoidable stage, but the complications and discomforts it brings along can be curbed with Acupuncture treatments. It helps to feel at ease.

Since the Menopause symptoms lead the women to stress and affect their relationships, profession, and families, Acupuncture offers a natural remedy to treat these symptoms and helps them to restore to their normal lives. That is why the women in Northern Beaches are careful about visiting the Acupuncturists to treat these symptoms.

Acupuncture is a part of Traditional Chinese Medicines that is applied therapeutically to treat menopause symptoms. The needling therapy is well practiced for menopause symptoms treatment at registered clinics in Northern Beaches. 

Let us look at the menopause symptoms Acupuncture can treat.

Hot Flushes 

Acupuncture helps in relieving the hot flushes. The women have reported that after being treated with Acupuncture, they significantly experience decreased hot flushes right after two weeks of therapy. Further, Acupuncture has no side effects and the women could enjoy improved energy and better quality of life.

Stress and Anxiety

Endless worries, palpitations, and stress are the anxiety issue symptoms. Acupuncture greatly reduces depressive anxiety, generalized anxiety, and even preoperative anxiety. The therapy reduces anxiety while improving memory to benefit women.

Insomnia and Night Sweat

When the women undergo sleepless nights and sweat a lot, Acupuncture is the apt remedy. The therapy is proven to stimulate the hormones like melatonin to be released so that the sleeping time increases.

Weight Gain and Appetite

Often the women lure themselves into eating more - this desire for eating more is because the estrogen level drops down. The drop in hormones and weight gain share a link. At such times, the women might have to work harder at the gyms for losing weight when they have reached the menopause stage. The leptin levels in the body are even impacted by the estrogen drop. Now leptin is the hormone regulating the food intake. Acupuncture treatment suppresses the abrupt body weight increase and in the process reduces the climacteric syndrome is even reduced which causes the body weight to increase. 

Knees Pains, Hip Pains, and Lower Back Pains

Many women undergo excessive arthritic pain during their menopause because their muscles, ligaments, and joints are no longer flexible as before. After carrying out repetitive work for years, the pain grows worse as they reach the menopause stage. But with the existence of natural and effective treatment like Acupuncture, arthritic symptoms can be treated since the therapy benefits pain management.

Migraines and Headaches 

Traditional Chinese Acupuncture treatments as well as sham Acupuncture treatments, wherein the Acupuncture needles are not inserted in the Acupoints - both relieve the women's post-treatment. But the traditional Chinese Acupuncture yield lasting relieving effects as after three months after being treated, the women reported reduced attacks of migraine in terms of intensity, frequency, and days. When they continue the treatment for over 6 weeks, then it proved effective in the treatment of blood pressure.

A study conducted comparing the Acupuncture effects and estrogen on the women's health at the time of menopause in relation to the hot flushes frequency state that the hot flushes frequency will be significantly reduced by electro-acupuncture. Although estrogen therapy is quicker and more effective Acupunctures have the least side effects in comparison to hormone therapy.