Premenstrual Syndrome （经前期综合症）

Premenstrual syndrome refers to emotional abnormality occurring regularly before menstruation in women. The clinical presentations are irritability and restlessness, or sorrow and susceptibility to sweeping; or mental depression, murmuring and insomnia, which disappear gradually after menstruation. This disease is called in Chinese Medicine “emotional anomaly on menstruation”, mostly caused by stagnation of liver qi, depression wood subjugating earth, leading to insufficiency of the spleen to produce blood, hence malnutrition of heart spirit; or by mental depression, leading to generation of fire that makes fluid become phlegm, resulting in disturbance of the spirit.

经前期综合征是指妇女在月经前定期发生的情感异常。在临床表现为烦躁不安，或悲伤和易感性扫地;或精神抑郁，口中念念有词，失眠，这在月经后逐渐消失。这种病被称为中国医学“情绪异常月经”，大多是由肝气抑郁木征服地球的停滞引起的，导致脾产生血，所以心脏的精神营养不良的不足;或精神抑郁，导致产生火灾，使流体成为痰，导致精神紊乱。