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MENTAL MODEL · M2882

Quarterly Menstruation / Ju Jing

Quarterly Menstruation / Ju Jing
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Updated 2026-08-03

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INTRODUCTION

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CORE DEFINITION

Quarterly Menstruation, known in classical Chinese medicine as Ju Jing or the seasonal period, describes a menstrual cycle of roughly three months in a woman who is otherwise healthy and able to conceive. It is classified as a normal individual variation rather than a disorder. The traditional reasoning is that cycle length differs between individuals, and regularity plus the absence of symptoms is the criterion of health. Forcing such a cycle to thirty days disrupts a rhythm that was never pathological.

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- Individual Baselines: judge a cycle against the person's own norm rather than a textbook average. - Resisting Normalisation: refuse to correct a variation that is regular and symptom-free. - Separating Causes: distinguish long but healthy cycles from amenorrhoea caused by disease.

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The menstrual cycle reflects an individual's own endocrine rhythm. When the rhythm is stable and the woman is healthy and fertile, a longer interval represents a different set point rather than a failure of function. Intervention only helps when the rhythm is irregular or the health markers are abnormal; otherwise it introduces disturbance where none existed.

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