David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 It can relieve menstrual cramps, vaginismus (painful spasm of the vagina preventing intercourse), mood swings and irritability from premenstrual syndrome, spastic bladder, and menstrual headaches.
The European species, Verbena officinalis, commonly is used in France and Germany for people with nervous exhaustion, myalgia, encephalomyelitis (which is called chronic fatigue immune deficiency syndrome in the United States), nervous headaches, convulsions, and agoraphobia.
Dosage and Safety
Tincture (1:2.5): 20-40 drops, up to three times per day.
Tea: Add 1 tsp. dried herb to 8 oz. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Blundell. "Menstrual Cycle and Appetite Control: Implications for Weight Regulation." Human Reproduction 12, no. 6 (1997): 1142-51.
Dye, L., P. Warner, and J. Bancroft. "Food Craving During the menstrual Cycle and Its Relationship to Stress, Happiness or Relationship and Depression: A Preliminary Enquiry." Journal of Affective Disorder 34 (1995): 157-64.
Endicott, Jean. Premenstrual Changes, Syndromes, and Disorders. National Institute of Mental Health (January 1, 1986).
Endometriosis Association. "What Is Endometriosis?" http://www.endometriosisassn.org/endo.html. Feinberg, Ronald. |
Ron Garner
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 Agitation Bloating
Chemical sensitivities to odors Cold hands and feet Constant throat clearing Constipation Dizziness
Excess head mucus (stuffiness)
Fatigue
Food allergies
Morning lethargy Heartburn Hot urine Hyperactivity Indigestion Irregular heartbeat Joint pains that travel Lack of sex drive Low energy
Metallic taste in the mouth Mild headaches Muscular pain Panic attacks
Premenstrual and menstrual cramping Premenstrual anxiety and depression Rapid heartbeat Rapid panting breath Slow circulation Strong smelling urine þWeight problems þWhite coated tongue Plus more ... |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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| It can relieve menstrual cramps, vaginismus (painful spasm of the vagina preventing intercourse), mood swings and irritability from premenstrual syndrome, spastic bladder, and menstrual headaches.
The European species, Verbena officinalis, commonly is used in France and Germany for people with nervous exhaustion, myalgia, encephalomyelitis (which is called chronic fatigue immune deficiency syndrome in the United States), nervous headaches, convulsions, and agoraphobia.
Dosage and Safety
Tincture (1:2.5): 20-40 drops, up to three times per day.
Tea: Add 1 tsp. dried herb to 8 oz. |
Mary-Ann Shearer
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 According to the textbooks normal means menstruating every twenty-eight to thirty-five days. My menstrual cycle was always forty-six-plus days. I started menstruating when 1 was fourteen and over the years my cycle remained inconsistent and premenstrual syndrome got worse with age. I thought that suffering from Premenstrual Syndrome, hlood sugar problems, and inconsistent menstrual cycles was something that 1 just had to endure. Seven years ago 1 changed to Perfect Health and became a vegetarian—I still ate wheat and dairy. I was also diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome. |
Mike Adams
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 Chris Kilham")
Menstrual cramps and disorders / PMS
As menstrual disorders can have many complex causes, I not only recommend major dietary changes that would boost the vitamin, nutritional, and phytonutrient content of your food, I also strongly recommend visiting a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner for any kind of menstrual or hormonal disorders.
Be sure to note a few things before you visit them, however. Note when the menstrual pain occurs: Is it before the period, during the period or after the period? Is the pain sharp, or is it dull and achy? |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 Small amounts of zinc are also lost from the body in skin cells, the menstrual cycle, sweat, semen, and hair.
Zinc is returned to the intestines in pancreatic juice and cell secretions
Liver stores excess zinc as metallothionein
Unabsorbed zinc may be eliminated in the stool
Small losses in skin cells, the menstrual cycle, sweat, semen, and hair
Figure 12-4 Zinc is returned to the intestines.
Summary for Zinc
Main functions: in enzymes, with hormones, protein structure, and diverse functions.
RDA: 2 to 6 mg for children and 8 to 13 mg for adolescents and adults. |
Mark Sircus
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 Facchinetti et al demonstrated that menstrual migraine could be prevented by administration of oral magnesium during the last 15 days of the menstrual cycle.
Menopause, Mood Disorders and Magnesium
Perimenopause and menopause related mood disorders cause significant distress to a large number of women. In the United States, one half of perimenopausal women will report feeling irritated or depressed.21 Different studies have shown that a woman's risk for a first bout with depression rises sharply as she approaches menopause. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 For women, magnesium levels tend to fall at certain times during the menstrual cycle. These shifts in magnesium levels can upset an optimal calcium-magnesium ratio. When the two minerals are in proper balance, the body better absorbs and assimilates the calcium it needs and also allows calcium to migrate from tissue and organs where it doesn't belong.
Without magnesium, calcium might not be fully utilized. Underabsorption of calcium can lead to menstrual cramps. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 However, Peter admits that the female field is more difficult to influence bioenergetically because it is made more complicated by the menstrual cycle and the complex hormonal cascade of events, at both the physical and bioenergetic levels, that females experience every month. The Energetic Star 12 Infoceutical can have a regulating effect, at the bioenergetic level, on irregular or dysfunctional menstrual cycles but is not intended as a correction for those kinds of problems. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Impaired lymphatic drainage from the female pelvic area is responsible for suppressed immunity, menstrual problems, premenstrual stress (PMS), menopausal symptoms, pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), cervicitis, all uterine diseases, vulvar dystrophies with growth of fibrous tissue, ovarian cysts and tumors, cell destruction, hormone deficiencies, low libido, infertility, and genetic mutations of cells leading to cancer. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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| I also use chamomile to relieve premenstrual syndrome anxiety, menopausal mood swings, and menstrual cramps. It is especially useful for people whose moods are erratic—agitated one minute, fine the next, and then anxious ten minutes later.
Chamomile is one of my favorite remedies for stress-induced gastrointestinal symptoms; you get stressed out, and you develop diarrhea, nervous stomach, constipation, acid reflux, heartburn, bowel spasms, or hiccups. I combine chamomile with catnip, hops, or valerian for people with these conditions. |
Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon
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 Familia / Family: PAPAVERACEAE
Partes usadas / Plant part used: Flores, frescas - Flowers, fresh Administration / Administration: Oral
Preparacion / Preparation: 1 cucharada de Flores en 11 de Horchata - 1 tbsp of Flowers in 11 of Horchata
Usos / Uses: Purification de la sangre, Descargo vaginal con sangre, Regulation del ciclo menstrual - Purify the blood, Vaginal discharge with blood. menstrual regulation
Grenadilla
Passiflora ligularis Juss. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Food Craving During the menstrual Cycle and Its Relationship to Stress, Happiness or Relationship and Depression: A Preliminary Enquiry." Journal of Affective Disorder 34 (1995): 157-64.
Endicott, Jean. Premenstrual Changes, Syndromes, and Disorders. National Institute of Mental Health (January 1, 1986).
Endometriosis Association. "What Is Endometriosis?" http://www.endometriosisassn.org/endo.html. Feinberg, Ronald. Healing Syndrome O: A Strategic Guide to Fertility, Polycystic Ovaries, and Insulin
Imbalance. New York: Penguin, 2004. Hetherington, Marion. Food Cravings and Addiction. |
Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon
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| Familia / Family: PASSIFLORACEAE
Partes usadas / Plant part used: Cascara de la Fruta, Hojas, frescas - Fruit peels, Leaves, fresh
Administracion / Administration: Topica - Topical
Preparacion / Preparation: Cocida, aplicada como Emplasto con Agua Florida - Cooked, applied as Poultice with Agua Florida
Usos / Uses: Infecciones, Calambres menstruales - Infections, menstrual cramps
Congona Serrana
Peperomia alata Ruiz & Pav. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 The average woman has four hundred to five hundred menstrual cycles in her lifetime, each one lasting four to seven days. If you add them all up, it comes out to more than nine years — a long time for women who suffer premenstrual syndrome (PMS). "You can't be bitchy and agitated and short-tempered and have a decent life," says a thirty-eight-year-old colleague I'll call Patty. "I know the feminists hate it when you say this, but some of us do go crazy."
Crazy isn't the word I would use, but it does capture the frustration many women feel when their hormones take over. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Whether you're going through menstrual, menopausal, or pregnancy hormone shifts, all the cravings advice above will help. In addition, experts say that it can be useful, especially for women with premenstrual symptoms, to keep a cravings diary in which you chart and pinpoint specific situations, emotions, triggers, and times of day when those dessert foods are calling out to you.
If you have PMS, it's helpful to know in advance when you're likely to indulge so you can head off cravings, says Louise Dye, Ph.D. |
| In short, three-quarters of the women studied had cravings that could be tied in to their menstrual cycle. "The predominant pattern that emerges from all the literature to date is an increase in both the frequency and the severity of food cravings for women in the premenstrual phase," Dr. Dye concludes.
And guess what most women crave just before their periods? You got it: nearly 80 percent of the women Dr. Dye surveyed wanted those tantalizing sweets. (Thank goodness, when I kicked sugar, all my PMS-related cravings disappeared. |
| During each menstrual cycle, a woman undergoes a flood of both estrogen and progesterone, which increases the amount of sugar in the mucous membranes, thus encouraging yeast growth.
"If a woman has Candida, she craves sugar to begin with—like those little yeasties are banging their spoons, saying 'Feed me,'" explains nutritionist Dr. Sally Rockwell. "Throw in the premenstrual cravings for sweets, and women get a little nuts."
So the cycle is self-perpetuating. As Candida grows, so does the long, irksome list of symptoms it causes. |
Byron J. Richards
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 A typical example is the menstrual cycle. It demands the calorie equivalent needed to perform eight hours of construction work a day for the week prior to the menstrual cycle, on top of all other energy demands for the day. A steak dinner a day of protein is put on the wall of the uterus and then discarded (not recycled) if there is no pregnancy. The menstrual cycle is about survival of the human race; thus, if there is a shortage of protein in the diet, the brain will induce signals to break down proteins from muscles and even neurotransmitters in the brain. |
Rainer W. Bussmann and Douglas Sharon
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| Familia / Family: PAPAVERACEAE
Partes usadas / Plant part used: Flores, frescas - Flowers, fresh Administration / Administration: Oral
Preparacion / Preparation: 1 cucharada de Flores en 11 de Horchata - 1 tbsp of Flowers in 11 of Horchata
Usos / Uses: Purification de la sangre, Descargo vaginal con sangre, Regulation del ciclo menstrual - Purify the blood, Vaginal discharge with blood. menstrual regulation
Grenadilla
Passiflora ligularis Juss. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 Candida is a fungal parasite that excretes toxic waste that can get into the bloodstream and cause symptoms of bloating, clouded thinking, depression, diarrhea, exhaustion, halitosis (bad breath), menstrual pains, thrush, unclear memory recall, recurring vaginal or bladder infections, anxiety, constipation, diarrhea (or both), depression, environmental sensitivities, fatigue, feeling worse on damp or muggy days or in moldy places, food sensitivities, insomnia, low blood sugar, mood swings, premenstrual syndrome, ringing in the ears, and sensitivities to perfume, cigarettes, or fabric odors. |
David Wolfe
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 On the day before, and on the day after, your menstrual cycle, drink at least one quart (one liter) of the "Iron Boost" drink described in Appendix C: Sunfood Recipes. When the body is totally purified, menstrual flow will be minimal. This is not a cause for alarm as it is the natural way of all mammals. When eating a diet of raw foods, avoiding nuts and seeds will greatly diminish menstrual losses.
Psoriasis
The quality of the skin (its glow, shine, radiance) reflects the state of the internal organs. |
Mark Sircus
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| A magnesium deficiency can cause blood vessels to go into spasms so if you suffer from menstrual migraines magnesium can be useful in preventing these spasms.
Magnesium is necessary for serotonin synthesis, which in turn is critical in mood regulation. Magnesium also appears to promote proper fluid balance, helping to ease the uncomfortable build up of excess fluid experienced by some women prior to menstruation. Inadequate magnesium levels have been found in women who experience premenstrual cravings and appetite changes. |
Richard Bartlett
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 However, consider the idea that we might be focusing on an issue such as menstrual cramps and that the knee is just the physical entry point we have chosen to utilize.
4B: Two-Point Sequence
The knee is moving physically beneath my hand while my second hand works in her energy fields. Always feel the connection or link between the two areas that you have chosen. It feels a little like the opposite poles of a magnet attracting the two points together.
4C: Two-Point Sequence
I am re-checking what has changed from our Two-Point procedures. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 The Morning-After Pill
Mifepristone (Mifeprex, RU-486), one of the newest and most revolutionary contraceptives, is used to terminate early pregnancies, which are defined as 49 days or less since the start of the last menstrual period. Mifepristone inhibits the activity of progesterone, which results in termination of the pregnancy. It can, however, result in an incomplete abortion or increased vaginal bleeding, both of which may require surgical intervention. So far, 1% to 5% of women have required some surgical intervention. For this reason it is only available through a physician. |
| Depo-Provera eliminates menstrual bleeding and is advantageous for woman who experience painful periods or want to stop the menses for other reasons. It is also more convenient and can be beneficial for women who can't remember to take a pill every day. This compound, however, has been associated with an increase in bone-mineral loss when given to teenagers. The best predictor of bone strength in later life is bone buildup in childhood; therefore, these depot forms of contraceptive are not recommended for adolescents. |
| Prostaglandins are hormones that have a wide range of functions, including causing the contraction of blood vessels in the endometrium at the end of the menstrual cycle, which causes the endometrium to sluff off from the uterus as menses. In this case misoprostol facilitates passage of material from the uterus. Because of the risk of bleeding, infection, or incomplete abortion, all of which are potentially fatal, this drug should not be used unless there are follow-up appointments with a physician. |
| Hormone Replacement Therapy
At about the age of fifty, women go through menopause, which is associated with the cessation of ovulation and menstrual cycling, and a decline in estrogen and progesterone levels. The conclusion that women need to "replace" their female hormones after menopause has a long history driven by the idea that a decline in hormones leads to unnatural and unwanted effects on libido, memory, and cardiovascular health, none of which has any basis in fact.
It all started forty years ago with a book called Feminine Forever, by Dr. Robert A. Wilson. |
| For example, in May 2007 the FDA approved the first pill, called Lybrel, that if taken daily halts women's menstrual periods indefinitely and prevents pregnancies. Because so many women use oral contraceptives, it is especially important to consider the side effects and consequences. What on the surface looks like an easy choice (to take "the pill") may not be for all women. |
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