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Amenorrhea
Category: Illness or disabilities
Type
Involuntary
Introduction and description
Amenorrhea is the absence of a menstrual period in a woman of reproductive age. Physiologically normal states of amenorrhoea are seen during pregnancy and lactation, childhood and after the menopause.
Causes
Amenorrhea has a number of possible causes – for example malnutrition, virus, bacterial attack, fungal attack, parasites or radiation damage for example. But these causes are not direct,they act via the estrogen cycle, as such for more details of both causes and cures you need to read the section on Estrogen imbalance. For more general information on Estrogen itself and its role in the reproductive system see Estrogen.
It is worthwhile here however to also mention that a common cause of amenorrhea is extreme emotion, usually negative, but not always.
Extreme emotion
Fear of becoming pregnant when it is not wanted can itself result in the very symptom designed to make things worse. Fear then feeds upon fear, anxiety upon anxiety. Other negative emotions that have been known to stop periods include isolation and loneliness, shock, psychological trauma, the terror caused by being bullied, the emotions resulting from being raped. Here is a most unusual case history
As described in Illustrations Of The Influence Of The Mind Upon The Body In Health And Disease, Designed To Elucidate The Action Of The Imagination - Daniel Hack Tuke, M.D., M.R.C.P.,
It would be tedious to enumerate even a small proportion of the cases which are on record, showing the influence of emotion on the suppression of menstrual discharge.
Disappointed affections, every one knows, are a fruitful cause, and in such instances there can be no confusion between cause and effect.
The sequence of the phenomena is also clear when Rage operates, as in a case recorded by Brierre de Boismont, of a lady who was thrown into a furious passion by some circumstance in consequence of which suppression took place. Remedies failed to relieve her, and she became insane. Regarded as possessed, she was exorcised, but without effect.
Subsequently, medical treatment restored the uterine functions, and, 'concurrently, her mental health (Annales Medico-Psychologiques. Edited by Baillarger, Cerise, et Longet, 1851, p. 593).
Related observations
Healing observations
- Acupuncture combined with spinal tui na for treatment of primary dysmenorrhea in 30 cases 026353
- Amenorrhoea, Infertility and the effect of soybeans on the anovulatory cycle 017935
- Braid, James – Curing amenorrhoea using both hypnotism and the power of Suggestion 026202
- Curing menstrual constipation 022290
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Antidysmenorrheic Activity 018474
- Dr Duke's list of Reproductive system activity for the Dog Rose 018091
- Ethnomedicine of menstruation in rural Dominica, West Indies 019418
- Management of Usr-i-Tamth (Menstrual Pain) in Unani (Greco-Islamic) Medicine 019911
- Mining analysis on composition and medication of menstruation prescriptions in Fu Qingzhu's Obstetrics and Gynecology 019433
- Mrs Grieve on Amaranths 020772
- Mrs Grieve on Angelica 020900
- Mrs Grieve on Feverfew 020008
- Pregnancy despite imminent ovarian failure and extremely high endogenous gonadotropins and therapeutic strategies: case report and review 017926
- Premature ovarian failure in the early age 20s: 3 case reports 017925
- Reversal of premature ovarian failure in a patient with Sjögren syndrome using an elimination diet protocol 017924
- The Effect of Rosa Damascena Extract on Primary Dysmenorrhea: A Double-blind Cross-over Clinical Trial 019795
- The Healing Power of Sleep 026790