Chong Mai Symptoms

This page is all about Chong Mai or Chong ‘Mo’ Symptoms.

To make more sense of it you may like to read first about the Chong Mai itself. 

Otherwise you might find yourself in a quagmire of Chinese medicine technical terms where you could sink without trace! Read that page first, and this page will make more sense.

This vital first ‘energy’ or ‘vessel’ was created when the fertilised egg that grew to be you first rooted itself in the side of your mother’s womb.

If you’ve already read that page, then you might also like to read what could happen when, in Chinese medicine, you get Rebellious Qi of your Chong Mai.

List of Chong Mai symptoms

1. Menses, Fertility and Pregnancy

• Periods may be irregular, or painful from Blood stasis or Blood Heat
• Infertility from Blood not nourishing, ie all sorts of menstrual problems in women, and sperm creation in men
• Pre-menstrual tension from rebellious Qi in Chong Mo. This can include weeping, and on the other hand, anger.
• Morning sickness during pregnancy from rebellious Qi in Chong Mai
• Menopausal problems, such as hot flushes, hot face with cold hands and feet

2. Abdominal problems

• Digestion and appetite upset
• Nausea
• Vomiting
• Distension: digestive problems in the Stomach including fullness and acidity. In the intestines with distension, blockage of flow of the food, pain and discomfort. 
• Pain – bursting, distending, need to loosen clothes. Pain like this is thought to be because the membranes in the abdomen aren’t properly nourished so don’t allow their contents, both the organs and their contents, to flow smoothly. This is one of the commonest Chong Mai symptoms.
• Umbilical area painful
• Tightness in the epigastrium
• In the abdomen/epigastrium a sense of urgency or tension pushing upwards towards or into the chest This includes fluttering or ‘butterflies’ in the epigastrium, for example. This ‘internal urgency’ can come with pain, constipation, anxiety, urine retention, nausea, dizziness and even hernia.

3. Chest problems, including Heart

• The breasts contain the same kind of connective tissue or membranes as the abdomen. Since Chong Mo ‘rules’ these membranes, you could say that it has a major influence on the health of breast tissue. This, together with painful periods, is another of the commonest Chong Mai symptoms.
• Breast lumps, cysts, nodules
• Breast milk: until giving birth to your baby, Chong mo, being also the Sea of Blood, is the main vessel that nourishes your baby in the uterus. After birth, the supply switches upwards to the breasts where you could say that what was uterine blood becomes breast milk.
• Throat feels tight or blocked, as of a lump 
• Women! Susceptibility to getting sick or catching illnesses during your monthly period, especially from Cold or Heat. This is because Chong Mo ‘formed’ all the tiny channels that interconnect in your body, and nourishes them with Blood: except during your period when, having jettisoned a load of it, Blood may be a bit short, so the tiny channels may be a little deficient…

What happens next, in this case to your defensive energy, your ‘Wei’ Qi?

• … what happens then is that the space between your skin and your flesh gets a bit ’empty’ and you become more susceptible to external pathogenic factors. So wrap up well during your periods, and don’t get cold or exhausted. Of course, this susceptibility might not be in your chest, but could be in your abdomen. That’s why swimming in cold water during your menses is discouraged in Chinese medicine.
• Various kinds of pain in the heart (the classics say 9 kinds!)