Tired of Hot Flashes?

Family Care Wellness is proud to bring to you two products that may dramatically reduce your menopausal conditions as well as bring your body back in harmony so it can heal itself. These products are specifically designed to gently strengthen your Kidney Qi and overcome Liver Qi stagnation, so that your body can begin to heal. As this harmony occurs your conditions will go away. They will not by covered up by drugs, but may, by your body's own natural healing ability be eliminated or  reduced. They are safe and all natural. Most women will feel a change begin with 2-4 weeks and after about three months, their organs are functioning well enough that this treatment for menopausal conditions are no longer needed.

These two products are based upon ancient natural formulas and have been adapted exclusively for Western individuals by Dr. Nan Lu. The stresses of life, career and family have taken their toll on all of us. These products when taken together address the Kidney Qi deficiency and Liver Qi stagnation that is the root cause for menopausal conditions.

Testimonial

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When I first started to get menopausal symptoms, I simply ignored them. As they got worse I went to my doctor who suggested I try hormone replacement therapy. I had known other women who were on it, but I was a little reluctant. I held off and started to look around. I tried a few alternative and natural products, but none really helped. This whole new approach to menopause was exactly what I was looking for. Now after two months my symptoms are almost all gone. I am feeling better, have more energy and no longer feel old. It has completely changed the way I look at my body and life. Thank you so much.” Kathleen - NY

Why Together?

Remember these products are designed to be taken together, because the root cause of most menopausal conditions lie in the Kidney and the Liver. These two formulas will work to harmonize the body. Most women will find their menopausal conditions dramatically reduced or even completely gone within three months.

Many women approach this time in their lives with fear, anxiety and anger. There are so many factors responsible for this: there’s the worry about heart disease, breast cancer, and osteoporosis. There’s also the fear of growing old and possibly useless or incapacitated, and so many more negative thoughts that it’s understandable that women have a difficult time maintaining a positive outlook through this transition. Hope, peacefulness and confidence in your own healing ability (an amazing gift that you were born with!) can help you make profound changes in your life.

But, the truth is, as you enter menopause, you are about to be immersed in an inner sea-change of far-reaching spiritual, emotional and physical consequences. Are you going to let fear prevent you from flourishing? Or, are you going to embrace this opportunity and open a door to a whole new life – one that is healthy and sustainable over the wonderfully interesting time you have allotted to you.

Think about the millions upon millions of women who have lived long lives without hormone replacement therapy. How did they do this? Surely not everyone of them suffered from debilitating symptoms. And, surely, it would not make sense, according to the natural law, to have an organism like the human body born without all the innate information and materials necessary for it to survive without outside drug intervention.

More and more women are looking for a natural, effective way to relieve menopausal symptoms and a safe alternative to hormone replacement therapy. Some have been on ERT or HRT for years and are among the 20 percent who have experienced its side effects. However this is not the only path, and while many have come to TCM as a last resort, what they learned has changed their life.

TCM works according to a completely different philosophy and system than Western medicine. While both can treat menopausal symptoms and reduce or eliminate a woman’s suffering, the true result is not the same. During a woman’s transition, TCM has the ability to help her adjust her body’s Qi, or vital energy, in as little as a few months, or sometimes even weeks.

Since TCM believes that everyone has the ability to self heal and the key to understanding how to heal naturally is to understand Qi.

Understanding Qi is essential to menopause, as virtually all menopausal problems are caused by a Qi imbalance. Generally speaking, this imbalance can be traced to the same source: kidney Qi deficiency and liver Qi stagnation. The kidney has become too weak to perform its regular functions and communicate its messages to its fellow organs; this condition is coupled with the problem of the liver’s Qi being stuck in either an organ or a meridian.

TCM works from the premise that as long as your Qi remains strong and flows freely, and your body’s organs work in harmony, disease or illness cannot enter.


CHART SHOWING RISK OF HRT/ERT
AND BREAST CANCER

AGE

WITHOUT HRT

5 Years of HRT

50-54

1 in 450

1 in 320

55-59

1 in 356

1 in 276

60-64

1 in 292

1 in 209

65-69

1 in 244

1 in 144


When used alone, as in ERT therapy, estrogen has been shown to increase the risk of endometrial cancer (cancer of the lining of the uterus) by 400-800 percent.

Hormone Therapy

Consequently, the principal Western treatments prescribed for menopause have become drugs: estrogen replacement therapy (ERT) or hormone replacement therapy (HRT), which includes a form of progesterone in addition to estrogen. If we examine this approach a little closer, you can see that it raises some serious questions. Just because something is lacking doesn’t necessarily mean that replacing it will restore normal function to a complex organism like the body.

Only now is science beginning to realize this, and the potentially dangerous side-effects that can occur.  According to Cancer Statistical Review referenced in the Harvard Women’s Health Watch, women who have been on HRT or ERT for five years or more, have an overall 30 percent greater risk of breast cancer than those who have not. This translates into a real rise in risk from 10 percent to 13 percent.


Menopause “unknown” in Chinese vocabulary

It may interest you to know that menopause is a word that is not in the TCM vocabulary. In ancient medical texts, menopause does not even appear. What does appear are many of the symptoms relating to women who reach this transitional age.

Menopause is basically a Western concept. TCM recognizes menopausal symptoms as Menstrual Cycle Ending Symptoms. In other words, TCM recognizes that the menstrual cycle has a beginning and it has an end. This is nature’s way

TCM has extensive experience in treating menstrual cycle symptoms. Today in the medical texts taught in all TCM medical colleges, there are 22 specific menstrual cycle symptoms. These include conditions like delayed periods, early periods, fever during cramps, cold sores during the menstrual cycle, breast tenderness and pain during menstruation, PMS, or even specific kinds of menstrual headaches, among others. Interestingly, only one of the 22 symptoms relates to what we call menopause. This is the above-mentioned Menstrual Cycle Ending Symptoms – the last set of problems a woman can have with her menstrual cycle before it ceases entirely.

Menstrual Cycle Ending Symptoms is then what we in the West call menopausal symptoms. From the TCM perspective, if a woman doesn’t suffer from menstrual irregularities during a lifetime of cycles, it is highly unlikely that she will experience any symptoms during her last cycles. This brings us to the concept of prevention – a unique specialty of TCM and one of its most important principles.

TCM believes that the best cure is prevention. If you’ve reached menopause and have many uncomfortable symptoms, or are suffering greatly, your body has been out of balance from some time. Not every one has a difficult transition; why is this happening to you? It’s most likely that many warning signs appeared when you were younger, but you just didn’t have the right information to decode them. If we could see more women when they’re in perimenopause, if we could work together then, their menopause transition would very likely be a smooth and happy one.

If you take in hormones from the outside, your own power to produce them from within is diminished. These drugs can weaken the body’s energy system. Your own Qi gets lazy, and the longer you take them, the less chance you have to heal yourself, and reactivate your ability to produce enough estrogen during your later years.

On the other hand, if you take the opportunity to become balanced during menopause, you can reach a new level of health. If you can strengthen and harmonize your Kidney and Liver functions, your menopausal symptoms will not appear. Remember when you do this, you do not cover over your symptoms like you would do by taking a drug, but you will eliminate them so that they do not exist. When your body is healthy, disease or sickness does not enter. And if you are healthy, you can heal yourself.

Testimonial

“I was on estrogen therapy for about six months, when I read an article about potential side-effects from using hormones. I began to worry, if this was the right thing to do for me for the long term. I told my doctor I wanted to stop taking the drugs and gradually began to wean myself off of it. During this time I began taking your herbs. Within a month I began to feel something, I wasn’t quite sure what it was but all I know I felt good. Now I am feeling great, and I am completely off of the drugs. Your herbs are now my program and I have not had ANY side effects. Thank you for changing my life.”

Denise – FL

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