Best Natural Remedies for Menopause Reduce menopause night sweats, hot flashes, mood swings naturally. Several natural herbs for menopause have shown great effectiveness in reducing or even treating menopause unpleasant symptoms. Most of these herbs act on the typical menopause problem and are known to have no reported side effects. Using these simple herbs in your diet or in supplemental form can also have tremendous effects on pre menopause symptoms. Menopause discomforts can be really hard to cope with at times, and not every herbal treatment will work for every woman. It is important to try different natural treatments, as you will in the end find the one that suits. The below are considered the best natural menopause remedies. They are recommended to lessen the menopause or pre menopauses hormonal effects and make the frequency of certain menopausal symptoms less disturbing. They could be used as an alternative for natural hormone replacement therapy. 1/ Red Clover Red clover contains four isoflavones that have estrogenic effects (genistein, biochanin, daidzein, and formononetin). Plant estrogens, such as those found in red clover, help to relieve short-term problems like menopause hot flashes and anxiety.

2/ Black Cohosh Black Cohosh is a phytoestrogen that helps balance hormone production during perimenopause and menopause. It helps relieve menopause night sweats and sleeplessness by providing some natural estrogen that soothes the body systems. It also helps reduce congestion, cramps and vagina dryness. Black cohosh is also a good natural remedy for hot flash.

3/ Chaste Tree Chaste tree berry is one of the best supplements for menopause as it has positive monograph in Germans Commission E for such symptoms as feeling of tension, breast swelling & tenderness and vagina dryness. It is known as an effective balancer of hormones as it restores estrogen/progesterone balance by acting on the hypothalamus and pituitary glands. It helps to alleviate menopause depression and menstrual cramps pain. 4/ Dong Quai This herb is also a phytoestrogen and considered one of the better natural herbs for menopause that can be used to balance the body hormone, including those for premenstrual syndrome (PMS), menstruation and women's health menopause. It may relieve menopause mood swings, hot flashes and vaginal dryness & irritation. It is also known as an all-purpose women holistic libido enhancement & reproductive tonic. 5/ Damiana Damiana extract is a tonic that is said to improve women sexual health and increase woman libido, specifically where sexual weakness is associated with hormones changes, nervousness and depression. 6/ Siberian Ginseng Siberian Ginseng is regularly used to increase stamina, improve your overall vitality and boost energy. It is more gentle and more suitable for women than regular Korean or Chinese ginseng. It is approved by the Germans Commission E to increase resistance to environmental stress, enhance physical & mental performance, and stimulate the immune system. It's a good natural fatigue treatment. 7/ Evening Primrose Evening primrose oil and menopause are the two words often go together in an all natural menopause aid.  One of the evening primrose benefits is to help reducing the frequency of hot flashes, the most dominant feature in menopause or pre-menopause symptoms.  Evening Primrose (contains gamma linoic acid-GLA) has beneficial effects in PMS (premenstrual syndrome) and acts as a natural hormone balance for woman. Red clover, Chaste tree, Dong quai, Damiana, Siberian ginseng and Evening primrose are featured in Natural Assets' Formula for Women References: Reginster, Jean-Yves L., Ipriflavone: Pharmacological Properties and Usefulness to Postmenopausal Osteoporosis, Bone and Mineral 23: 223-32, 1993 Excretion of isoflavonoids in the urine of Japansese women was found much higher than in American and Finnish women. The high intake may partly explain why hot flashes and other menopausal complaints are reduced in Japanese women. (Aldercreutz, Herman and Esa Hamalainen, Dietary Phyto-Estrogens and the Menopause in Japan. The Lancet 339: 1233, May 16, 1992 According to translations of original Russian research, Siberian ginseng has the ability to increase our endurance and capacity to work by improving the ability of the liver and adrenals to regulate hormonal levels, dispose of lactic acid, and regulate blood sugar (reported in Farnsworth et al., 1989) Plant estrogens like Red Clover provide a supplementary source of estrogens, which help to softenthe beginning of menopause and lead to fewer short-term problems like hot flashes and fewer long-tem problems such as heart disease and osteoporosis. Brown, Donald, et al. Clinical Application of Natural Medicine: Menopause., monograph (Seattle: Natural Product Research Consultants, 1997

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