- All
- Abdominal pain
- Acupressure
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- Appetite
- Arthritis
- Autumn
- Back pain
- Belinda Boylan
- Birth preparation
- Bitter flavour
- Bladder organ system
- Bleeding conditions
- Bloating
- Blood-nourishing
- Breast-feeding
- Breathing
- Caesarean section
- Cancer support
- Chinese herbal medicine
- Christmas
- Clothing
- Cold and flu
- Cold hands and feet
- Cold nature
- Constipation
- Convalescence
- Cooling nature
- Cough
- Dampness
- Detox
- Diarrhoea
- Digestion
- Earth element
- Edema
- Emotions and mood
- Empty-sweet flavour
- Energy
- Exercise
- Fertility
- Fire element
- First trimester
- Five elements
- Flavour
- Food therapy
- Full-sweet flavour
- Gall Bladder organ system
- General health conditions
- Haemorrhoids
- Headache and migraine
- Heart organ system
- Immunity
- Indigestion
- Induction of labour
- Inflammation
- IVF
- Keryn Hawker
- Kidney organ system
- Large Intestine organ system
- Lifestyle therapy
- Liver organ system
- Lois Nethery
- Lung organ system
- masses
- Meditation
- Men's health
- Menopause
- Metal element
- Mood
- Morning sickness
- Mouth ulcers
- Movement (food therapy)
- Moxibustion
- Muscular pain
- Nausea
- Neutral nature
- New Year
- News
- Organ energy systems
- Our practitioners
- Pain conditions
- Pericardium organ system
- Periods
- Postnatal
- Pre-birth acupuncture
- Pregnancy
- Prenatal yoga
- Pungent flavour
- Raw food
- Recipes
- Salad
- Season
- Sinus
- Skin issues
- Sleep
- Sleep and insomnia
- Sore throat
- Sour flavour
- Spleen organ system
- Sports injury
- Spring
- Stomach organ system
- Stress
- Summer
- Summerheat
- Super-foods
- Supplements
- Sweet flavour
- Swellings
- Symptoms and conditions
- Tea
- Thermal property
- Third trimester
- Treatments
- Triple Warmer organ system
- tumours
- Uncategorized
- Urination issues
- Warm food
- Warming nature
- Water
- Water element
- Weather
- Wind
- Winter
- Women's health
- Wood element
- Workshops
- Yin and Yang
- Yoga
29/03/2019
Many women take it as a given that periods are painful. Chinese medicine takes a different view.
This article might help you to understand your own unique situation, and give you some clues on where you can start to make some positive changes. Increasing your feeling of wellbeing, alongside addressing symptoms, is central to Chinese medicine.