Acupuncture in the rehabilitation of patients with menopausal syndrome

The physiological age-related restructuring of a woman's body in the menopausal period is often complicated by a variety of pathological manifestations of varying intensity. Clinical and physiological studies indicate a complex and diverse pathogenesis of menopausal syndrome, in the occurrence of which age-related changes in various parts of the central nervous system and especially in the cerebral cortex, hypothalamic structures and reticular formation play an important role [1, 4]. At present, convincing evidence has been obtained of the direct involvement of hypothalamic structures in the regulation of cyclic changes in a woman's body, metabolic processes, trophic organs and tissues, in the integration of endocrine, vegetative and emotional functions [3, 7].