Fibroids Support
Treating Fibroids with Traditional Chinese Medicine
As you move through perimenopause and toward postmenopause, fibroids often soften and shrink on their own. Acupuncture and Chinese medicine meet your body where it is, helping it release tension, restore flow, and reclaim comfort and vitality.
You are not broken. You are becoming.
The Basics
What Fibroids Really Are
Fibroids are growths that form in the muscular wall of the womb. They are not cancer. They are made of the same tissue as the uterus itself, only denser and more tightly wound. Some stay as small as a seed. Others grow larger over time. A woman can carry one, or she can carry many, and most of the time they are not dangerous.
They are also far more common than most women are ever told. By the age of fifty, the majority of women have had them, whether they noticed or not. Many fibroids are quiet and ask for nothing. Others make themselves felt in ways that are hard to ignore.
They do not arrive evenly, either. Black women tend to develop them earlier, more often, and with greater intensity, and are too often told that the bleeding and the pain are simply normal. You deserve to understand your own body, and to be taken seriously when it speaks.
Listening to the Body
How They Make Themselves Known
Not every woman feels all of these. Some feel none at all. But when the body speaks in these ways, it is worth listening.
Heavy or long periods
Bleeding that is heavier than usual, lasts longer than expected, or includes blood clots.
Pressure and fullness
A feeling of pressure, heaviness, or fullness in the lower abdomen that does not seem to go away.
Frequent urination
Pressure on the bladder that causes more frequent trips to the bathroom.
Low back ache
A dull ache or persistent discomfort in the lower back, often without an obvious cause.
Pelvic pain
Cramping, discomfort, or pain in the pelvic area that may come and go or persist throughout the month.
Abdominal bloating
A sensation of swelling or enlargement in the lower abdomen that can make clothing feel tighter than usual.
Pain during intimacy
Discomfort or pain during sexual activity that may be related to the size or location of fibroids.
Constipation
Pressure on the bowel that can make bowel movements more difficult or less frequent.
Fatigue
Low energy, exhaustion, or feeling run down, especially when heavy bleeding contributes to iron deficiency.
Are fibroid symptoms interfering with your daily life?
You do not have to live with painful, disruptive symptoms. What you are experiencing is real, and there are treatment options available.
Our Clinical Approach
The Treatment Strategy
Move Qi and Blood
Improve circulation and reduce the pelvic congestion that contributes to pain, pressure, and discomfort.
Reduce Stagnation
Address the underlying patterns that allow fibroids to develop and persist.
Soften and Break Down Accumulation
Support the body's ability to reduce areas of hardness, congestion, and tissue buildup.
Support a Healthy Cycle
Help regulate heavy bleeding, clotting, and menstrual irregularities.
Strengthen the Foundation
Support energy, blood production, and overall reproductive health.
You are more than a diagnosis. We treat the symptoms, the pattern, and the person together.
The Chinese Medicine Lens
How Chinese Medicine Understands Fibroids
In Chinese medicine, fibroids belong to an old family of conditions called zheng jia, the fixed masses that gather low in the belly. The idea at the heart of it is simple. Where blood and qi move freely, the body stays soft and open. Where they stagnate, things begin to collect.
A fibroid, in this view, is what holding looks like in the flesh. Blood that stops moving becomes stasis. Qi that has been held back by years of stress, grief, or swallowed words becomes stagnation. Dampness the body cannot transform begins to congeal. Over time, what was meant to flow turns dense, and the womb makes a mass of it.
This is not blame. It is a map. It shows us where to send the medicine, so we are not only chasing the growth but tending the soil it grew from.
How the Medicine Helps
Chinese medicine does not promise to make a fibroid disappear overnight, and any honest practitioner will tell you the same. What it offers is a way to work with the patterns underneath. Acupuncture and herbs move blood where it has grown sluggish, ease the grip of qi that has been held too long, warm what is cold, drain what is damp, and help a cycle find its rhythm again.
For many women, this is where relief begins. Bleeding becomes lighter and easier to live with. Clots ease. The low back loosens. Energy returns as the monthly loss of blood slows. We treat the pain, and we tend to the woman who has been carrying it.
You at the Center
You Deserve Support That Honors You
Acupuncture and Chinese medicine can help you feel more like yourself again, lighter, more comfortable, and more deeply connected to the body you live in.
Your body is working for you. Let us support it, together.
A Whole Person Approach
Care That Tends the Whole of You
Acupuncture
Relieve pressure and support natural healing
Chinese Herbal Medicine
Formulas to move blood, soften masses, and steady the cycle
Food Therapy
Warming, blood moving foods chosen for your pattern
Lifestyle and Self-Care
Sleep, stress, and gentle movement that protect your vitality
You
At the center of your healing journey
A Gentle Word of Honesty
Fibroids deserve a real diagnosis. If you are bleeding heavily, in significant pain, or noticing rapid changes, please see a physician and get clear imaging. Chinese medicine works most beautifully alongside good medical care, not in place of it. My work is to support your body, to help it move what it has been holding, and to walk beside you while you decide what is right for you. You should never have to make those choices alone or uninformed.
Valencie Exceus, AP, Acupuncture Physician
Highpoint Healing and Wellness, Inc.
For nearly two decades I have practiced Chinese medicine and Ayurveda, sitting with women through the seasons of the body that no one prepared them for. My work with fibroids is rooted in that long listening. I treat the pattern and the person, the womb and the woman, with medicine that is as gentle as it is honest.
In person care at All Natural Wellness Center, 1306 E Broward Blvd, Fort Lauderdale. Telehealth available across Florida.
Begin When You Are Ready
Let the Body Move What It Has Held
A first visit is an unhurried conversation and a careful look at your whole picture, so the medicine can meet you where you are.
You are not alone. You are not too late. You are right on time.
Love yourself back to health.