Women’s Health Series: Hormone Pills, IUD and IVF
As mentioned in my previous post about how the menstrual cycle is connected to a woman’s intuitive
wisdom, it is hence important to understand and note of how the ‘solutions’ offered by modern society
and pharmaceutical companies in the name of helping women with menstrual and fertility issues can have
a deep impact on the psyche and instincts of women. Read more about Acupuncture for Pineal Gland here.
Hormone pills
Hormone pills or birth control pills have been promoted as the panacea to women today with issues of
irregular menstruation or heavy periods (menorrhagia) or cramps and risks of ovarian and endometrial
cancer, other than their primary purpose of contraception. Yet what millions do not know is that the use of
birth control pills interferes and inhibits the women bodies’ connection with their inner intuitive wisdom.
Read how TCM and acupuncture treat PMS here.
Read how TCM and Acupuncture treat PCOS here.
This is because different parts of the body talk to us through signs and symptoms which are trying to get
our attention that something is out of balance in other aspects of our life, such as interpersonal
relationship, career, self-esteem, self-worth.
Hormone pills silence this inner guidance and communication
between the body and us. It is interesting to note that in clinical practice, women who are on hormone pills
often find that they can feel the emotions such as grief, sadness, anger, even joy but are unable to display
and express any emotional or physiological reaction arising from the emotions.
They become the poker face of all self-expression. And the result of that is the unexplainable and
unreasonable outbursts and lashing out on people and matters around them, which is often described by
people when that happens as being ‘hormonally imbalanced’. And of course the quality of life for the
woman in concern naturally deteriorates together with their intuitive wisdom through the cutting out of
expression with pills.
Intrauterine Devices (IUD)
IUD has been used as also a contraceptive and solution to heavy periods today. Small amount of
hormones are periodically released from the IUD to regulate and control the blood flow of women with
heavy periods. Hence it similarly interferes with the natural hormone regulation of the reproductive system
and ultimately kills off the intuitive instincts in women.
As a matter of fact, heavy periods or menorrhagia is the result of Qi or energy deficiency in the women’s
bodies such that the upliftment and retainment of blood within the reproductive organs cannot be
sustained. Acupuncture and herbs can very well do the job to resolve this problem without even touching
a single bit of the intricate hormone system, let alone messing with the precious intuitive wisdom.
In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)
The woman’s body is flushed with surges of hormones for ovulation and then implantation which is
unnatural and extreme. Again, it interferes with the natural hormone balance in the body and result in
reverberations of hormonally imbalanced symptoms in women and the ultimate cutting off of their intuitive
wisdom.
The forced extreme changes of hormones during the procedures of IVF will often take up to a few months
to rebalance back without natural balancing treatments such as Acupuncture. During this time of
hormonal imbalance, again the woman is out of touch with her intuition and emotions. This often floods
over into the period of pregnancy and even birth and postnatal when depression, anxiety, suicidal
thoughts develop as a result of not being able to make sense of and express what emotions are internally
arisen.
Thinking Out Loud
As you can see, women today subject their bodies to various interventions offered by modern
pharmaceutical business in the name of benefiting their hormones and so-called help them achieve all the
objectives that they would like to have with family planning, personal relationships and daily convenience.
Indeed, millions of women’s bodies are now more in tune with pharmaceutical companies than with
nature. And with that women these days are more numbed and out of touch with their emotions, which is
nature’s way of guiding women in their wisdom, intuition, decisions, actions, behaviors in society,
community and family. It is no wonder women who may be appearing highly functional on the outside are
crumbling inside with their mental health, family life, relationships to others and themselves which
manifest as physical ailments and dysfunctions.
As a Traditional Chinese Medicine female doctor who is Western medically trained and exposed to all
kinds of energetic healings, I find it disheartening to see how women these days are indoctrinated with
hypocritic modern offerings which claim to immediately benefit them big time yet destroying their lives in
fine print and years to come. All conditions have their solutions in Traditional Chinese Medicines,
Acupuncture, Herbs and all other natural healings, all we ask for is patience and trust, in nature and in
yourself.
It is important that with my words I can relay this message to all women and men who have a beloved lady
you care about out there:
Ditch the pills, have patience in natural healings, trust your body and its innate wisdom.
Further reading:
Everything you need to know about Acupuncture
Weight gain after IVF & How Acupuncture helps Weight Loss After IVF
Can I do Acupuncture during Menstruation Period?
How do Acupuncture and Acupressure work and which is the Better One
Everything you need to know about Dampness
It is not normal to have cysts and fibroids