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Early: Amount may be profuse or scanty, color may be red or purplish with clots, breast distension and tenderness, chest, hypochondriac and lower abdominal fullness and pain, emotional instability with possible short temper, bitter taste in the mouth or dryness |
Liver qi stagnation
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Early: Scanty in amount, red in color with no clots, dizziness, palpitation, insomnia, soreness of the lower back, wu xin re (five-center heat), flushed cheeks |
Yin deficiency
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Early: Profuse in amount, dark red or purplish in color, thick with fetid odor, irritability, dry mouth, preference for coldness, constipation, yellow urine |
Damp-heat in the lower jiao
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Early: Light in color, scanty in amount, feeling of emptiness in the lower abdomen, listlessness, palpitation, shortness of breath, poor appetite, loose stools |
Qi deficiency
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Early: Profuse during the first day and dramatically decreases later or incessant bleeding that is purple with clots, lower abdominal fullness, distension and pain |
Blood stagnation
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Delayed:Scanty in amount, light in color, absence of abdominal pain, dizziness, palpitation |
Blood deficiency
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Delayed: Scanty in amount, purplish in color, lower abdominal pain which worsens with pressure and lessens with warmth, purplish complexion |
Excess cold
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Delayed: Purplish red blood with lower abdominal distension and pain, chest and hypochondriac pain, breast tenderness |
Liver qi stagnation
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Irregular: May be twice a month or once in two months, may be profuse or scanty in amount with breast tenderness, lower abdominal distension and pain, hypochondriac distension, or lower back soreness |
Liver qi stagnation with Kidney yin deficiency
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Irregular: Pale in color and scanty in amount, dizziness, palpitation, fatigue, listlessness, loose stools |
Heart and Spleen deficiency
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Absence of menstruation during menopause |
Yin deficiency with false heat
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Absence of menstruation during menopause |
Yin deficiency with false heat
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