Morning Sickness

"Morning Sickness" Issue / Symptom Connections

Below you will find various relationships to, and potential clinical treatment approaches for morning sickness.

Content Related to Morning Sickness

It is critical to appreciate that in Chinese Medicine, treatment for "morning sickness" is rarely focused on the symptoms exclusively. Alternatively, a practitioner is looking at the factors that led to the development of "morning sickness" - i.e. the "cause(s)".

For non-practitioners, we recommend reading treating the "cause" and not the "symptoms" for more on the overall approach and the importance of the TCM diagnostic system in formulating treatment approaches.

Within TCM, "morning sickness" is potentially related to one or more of the following diagnostic patterns: liver and gallbladder damp heat, lung dampness - phlegm cold, spleen invasion - cold damp, stomach cold, and/or stomach rebellious qi.

The above patterns are common examples. In clinical situations, however, there are any number of other possibilities. Many times there will be a layered combination of patterns in an interwoven blend with their symptoms - some being the cause of an issue and the result of another issue. While initially complex, this is illustrative of the the web of relationships that Chinese Medicine is designed to approach.

Related Acupuncture Protocols

When developing an acupuncture protocol a practitioner is very often focusing on the causal diagnoses in Chinese Medicine terms, not on the condition itself. To illustrate and guide developing an acupuncture treatment for someone experiencing morning sickness, this issue is referenced in the following acupuncture protocol sections: