Are you experiencing menopause changes and desiring for an herbal treatment? So here is a simple yet useful herbal guide for you.
- Diet is an important aspect for all herbal treatment. Nutritional balance will help you in dealing with the menopause affects on your body.
- Calcium becomes essential at this stage of your life so try to get a lot of calcium in your diet. Take a lot of dairy products, dark leafy vegetables, herbs, seaweeds as they are rich calcium sources.
- Even extra Vitamin E and Iron is required.
- Try your best to keep away from processed food, alcohol, refined sugars, caffeine and salts.
- Daily take ginseng and sage either in the form of capsules or tea so as to lessen hot flashes.
- Water retention problems can be treated with nettle, uva ursi and chickweed. Cranberry juice is even beneficial in treating water retention problems. But remember don’t stop your fluid intake.
- Instead for synthetic estrogen replacement you can even try this herbal combination: 1 part of vitex, 1 part of false unicorn root, 1 part of ginger, 1 part of cinnamon, 2 parts of licorice, 2 parts of spirulina, 2 parts of wild yam, 2 parts of gotu kola, 2 parts of sage, 2 parts of gingko, 3 parts of sasparilla and ½ part of black cohosh daily either in the form tea or powdered blends made into capsule.
- You can also take 2 capsules of bee pollen, dong quai, royal jelly and/or ginseng daily along with the above combination.
- Prefer a low fat, high fiber diet during this period and don’t forget to do a regular exercise.
Try to keep yourself active and optimistic. Try out something new and interesting. And don’t hesitate to be sexually active during this phase.
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