| Any women who has suffered pain from ovarian | | | | who have cysts have a hormonal imbalance and are |
| cysts knows how acute the pain can be and how | | | | not ovulating regularly. Acupuncture is used to bring |
| the symptoms associated with cysts such as | | | | balance to the menstrual cycle and hormones and can |
| bloating, back pain, irregular period and nausea, can | | | | directly affect ovulation. There are several different |
| be extremely draining and leave her feeling | | | | acupuncture techniques to help improve the blood |
| completely wrung out and miserable. | | | | flow to the reproductive organs, whilst at the same |
| Conventional medicine tends to offer birth control | | | | time optimising ovulation. |
| pills, pain killers and, at worst, surgery as her only | | | | Chinese herbs may also be used to help dissolve |
| options for treatment. But the modern day woman is | | | | painful ovarian cysts. Women who generically tend to |
| no longer satisfied with this course of action. She | | | | have cysts may have a set of symptoms that |
| doesn't necessarily want to be taking birth control | | | | accompany this condition and this could be a sluggish |
| pills, particularly if she wants to get pregnant, and she | | | | digestion which is causing the body to create excess |
| is worried of possible side effects with long term | | | | mucus and dampness. An inefficient digestive system |
| usage of any painkillers. The trouble with conventional | | | | can lead to the formation of dampness in various |
| medicine is that it only masks the symptoms and fails | | | | parts of the body and ovarian cysts. Herbs can be |
| to get to the root of the problem. Whilst it deals | | | | used to improve the digestive system and drain the |
| with the pain from ovarian cysts, it is only a | | | | damp parts that are causing the body to develop |
| temporary solution. | | | | points of stagnation. |
| More women are looking for alternative treatments | | | | Acupuncture and herbs are only a small part of the |
| that work naturally with their bodies and that don't | | | | natural treatments that can be used to deal with pain |
| produce another set of side effects. Two such | | | | from ovarian cysts and also help to get rid of them |
| treatments are acupuncture and herbs. Chinese | | | | completely. No woman should have to endure pain |
| medicine views cysts as a collection of stagnant fluid | | | | from ovarian cysts month after month nor should |
| and blood. Whilst it is not life threatening, it is a | | | | she have to keep taking tablets that could be |
| disruption to the normal bodily processes. Women | | | | damaging to her health. |