Monday, December 8, 2008

Menopause Symptoms? Look At These Amazing Herbs!

By Keith M. Henry

Many plants have medicinal properties that reduce menopausal symptoms...

A case in point is soy. It has been given or recommended for female health for quite sopme time as a mode to help balance and stabalize hormones, and promote breast health as well as the female reproductive system In fact, there are many.

Black Cohosh

Black Cohosh is in all probability the most well known herb that is used during the menopause years. Some doctors are now suggesting it for their patients who want more natural relief from menopausal symptoms.

Black Cohosh helps to balance estrogen and curtail mentluteinizing hormone to help subdue these symptoms. Black Cohosh has been studied chiefly in Germany...it is used mostly there to treat hot flashes.

Black Cohosh is among the herbs that has proven itself to women to be very effective for the problems and symptoms of menopause.

Dong Quai

Dong Quai is a herb used in traditional Chinese medicine as a tonic for the female reproductive system--

Dong Quai is used by natural practitioners to boost blood flow, and thereby help relieve hot flashes and lubricate the vagina...

Dong Quai also boast properties that can ease menopausal rheumatism. It is plentiful in magnesium a mineral which can help to deepen sleep troubled by night sweats.

Dong Quai has shown itself adequate to many women, alleviating and reducing the symptoms of menopause. It also functions as a general tonic for the female reproductive system.

Red Clover

Red clover has shown its ability to reduce many of the symptoms of menopause. As a result of its estrogenic effects it also appears to help prevent osteoporosis.

WILD YAM

Wild Yam can be discovered in many sorts of progesterone creams. With Wild Yam, ladies experience less and less intense hot flashes, the number one complaint among menopausal ladies.

Wild Yam extract is a very helpful herb for women and works synergistically with progesterone.

WHY THEY WORK

Phytoestrogenic herbs, the class to which Black Cohosh falls, are bursting with phytoestrogens, these are a lot like estrogens. They can boost low estrogen levels by replacing some of the missing estrogen hormones.

Phytoestrogens are estrogens that are found in some foods. These estrogens are of 2 varieties--lignans and isoflavones.

Phytoestrogen herbs are those that contain estrogenic properties that helps produce estrogen in a lady's body like Black Cohosh and Dong Quai. There also are other useful herbs that may be used, particularly when properly mixed that may produce great relief to the sufferers of menopause.

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