Talking about Hot Flashes (潮热)  

作　　者：Anna Bogachko Holmblad 

机构地区：[1]Master of Traditional Chinese Medicine,Course Organizer at the Shanghai Qigong Research Institute,Shanghai 200030,China

出　　处：《Chinese Medicine and Culture》2021年第1期50-57,共8页中医药文化（英文）

摘　　要：Women worldwide are dealing with hot flashes (潮热), a perimenopausal feature that is often tiring,embarrassing, and energeticallydraining. Conventionally, Chinese medicine defines hot flashes as Kidney-yin deficiency and its clinical manifestations include red face,sweating, hot sensations in the palms and soles, mouth and nose dryness, constipation, insomnia, lumbar soreness, knee weakness, redtongue, etc. To obtain a broader perspective and understand the dynamics of hot flashes, we examined the mechanisms behind hot flashesbased on both the knowledge from ancient Chinese medicinal texts, as well as novel research findings of Chinese and Western medicine.This perspective was the foundation for the acupuncture study of our traditional Chinese medicine conducted in 2018-2019 in Shanghai.This study, designed as a pragmatic randomized control trial with two parallel groups, focused on regulating and unblocking conceptionand governor vessels. The results confirmed that our acupuncture method could effectively reduce both the frequency and severity of hotflashes and improve life quality of middle-aged women.

关 键 词：Hot flashes(潮热) KIDNEY MENOPAUSE PERIMENOPAUSE syndrome differentiation(辩证) traditional Chinese medicine(TCM) TRIAL 

分 类 号：R271.116[医药卫生—中医妇科学]