For hot flashes. Anybody tried this?
MED: Primrose oil
evening primrose oil? My friend suggested it and I am ready to try anything!!
Susan
3G - you may find the opinions expressed at this forum of interest:
http://www.revolutionhealth.com/drugs-treatments/rating/evening-primrose-oil-gamma-linolenic-acid-gla-for-premenstrual-syndrome
You may want to take a look at your diet and consider whether you are getting enough essential fatty acids in general.
garden-mermaid you always post the most relevant information!
So many people are buying this or that and thinking it is helping them.
There are just a few healthy kinds of things you need: and Omega 3s and undoing the non nutritional fats in diet is one.
If you don't follow a basic healthy diet, all of the potions in the world are not going to be very effective.
I take a fistful of extras every day, including fish oil, flaxseed oil, magnesium, but the best thing I've found for hot flashes is the walmart brand of estroven called Estroblend.
I've been following a vegetarian diet for almost a year now and honestly believe for me that stress adds to the issues. Knock on wood, I haven't had a bout of hot flashes in a while until recently.
There are more and more studies showing that supplements do not function the same way that nutrients do. There is no substitute for a healthy diet. Popping supplements and eating garbage is not going to get you anywhere.
As for stress, I think it is almost impossible to be healthy under stressful conditions. I am just now recovering my hair which fell out during a term of high stress at my job. Quit job, hair grew back.
Gloria, I am wondering if I am not getting enough protein. I have been having problems for the last few weeks with losing hair too. I thought maybe I was shedding like my cats do! LOL We eat fresh veggies, fruit, nuts, only fish or seafood, very little sugar. Have been under a little marital stress too and that can't help. Any ideas???
I just heard a discussion by the mind-body gynocologist - ? Northrup.
peri/post menopausal women are undergoing homone changes that can induce male pattern baldness. (((YUCK))) This condition is exagerated by eating high glycemic foods - white sugar/flour based food and stress.
Loss of hair is one of the symptoms of iron deficiency anemia which can result from heavy bleeding. I spent 3 days in the hospital trying to find 'internal bleeding' that would be responsible for iron deficiency. Didn't find it though.
Some one told me (since all of my protein comes from beans) that there has not been a case of protein deficiency in the U.S.
There were some cases in Africa when infants were fed corn with no complementing legume. this was a severely distressed situation because of famine.
I don't think it is likely that you would have a protein deficiency. I am not a medical practitioner. You should look around and find a professional person who can help you.
I would say Stress is the first thing you have to work on. It really can take years off your life and make the ones you have left miserable.
Raggedyann, do you ingest dairy? (I've struggled with the need to be vegetarian since I was 12. Still struggling.)
I do nibble on cheese and maybe a boiled egg once in a while and that is it.
Gloria, I'm making some red lentil soup tonight. I crave the stuff! lol
I'm going to make an appointment and have my iron checked. I have been going through hormonal changes in the past 3 months since my last exam in March along with the mammogram.
Stress is another thing I have to work on....
I think Iron and thyroid are important things to keep track of in peri and post menopausal women.
Hormone changes can really mess things up and stress may loom larger than it needs to.
There are ways to introduce small changes that help with stress.
Don't be in denial. maybe make a list as to what you can act on and what you can't. Don't let yourself be beat up by things that are beyond your control.
This wont make sense if there is someone out to get you and you don't know what their next move is. Just get all the information you can and get out of that persons way.
Being proactive helps with stress. And otherwise learn how to relax and take yourself mentally out of the situation.
Im still in recovery and Ive been retired for 5 years now!
I make yogurt now and then if I think my immune system needs a boost.
I do use a lot of soy products and recently started using soy milk to get in some extra high fiber cereal.
An excellent website helped me through the change and hysterectomy -- www.hystersisters.com
It's much like DG but COMPLETELY for girls, of course, and gardening is off topic!
Can't get through on that website. Ill have to try later.
Here is the Christiane Northrup website.
http://www.drnorthrup.com/index.php
I use Dr. schultz's Female blend for premenapausal symptoms, took it for a whole month and once in a while the second month, was having hot flashes daily 3 to 4 times lasting several min to 5 min each time, haven't had any hot flashes, NONE what so ever in several months now.
I swear by the stuff.
on line you just have totype in his name and his web site comes up. it's fabulous stuff, all natural too
https://web0.herbdoc.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=38
Dr. Shulze.
Botanical Ingredients: Dong Quai Root, Chaste Tree Berry,
Wild Yam Root, Damiana Leaf, Licorice Root and Hops Flower.
2 oz. 28$
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yep, that's the one. make sure you get the right female one there's two different females. female + and female. I use the female
Good stuff
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Lavender
you need to be very careful taking primrose oil and other herbals
alot can interfere with medications and cause some very unpleasant side affects
Primrose oil cannot be taken with other certain herbs either.
Glad you posted that lavendergarden about being careful with herbs, I use to think that just cause it was herbs I could take just about anything. LOL Iknow better now. And it's easy to think that, cause if it 's natural how can it be bad for you LOL but that's not true either.
Kathy, there are so many out there with that way of thinkingm and its just sad
I always make sure all of my customers know Everything before I even sell them anything herbal.
Lavendar, several DG members wanted a separate forum for discussion and exploration of medicinal herbs, with a forum description and/or sticky reminding the forum participants that foods and herbs can have significant effects and they need to do their own further research before deciding to take any herb recommended on the medicinal herb threads. The compromise was to start the threads with MED: in the subject. I'm not sure this method segregates the discussion appropriately, since there is no "disclaimer/caution" on the herb forum about the threads that start with MED.
Many folks *are* familiar with the proper and appropriate usage of herbs in healing. It would be unfortunately if we were unable to discuss how we grow, harvest and use them.
Yes I know there are many that know the appropriate usage and such, but there are just as many, if not more out there that dont.
Why couldnt the description include Healing instead of Med or Old Ways with Herbs, there are other words that could be used in the Topic line
And Im sure that a disclaimer could be made by the Forum itself, as with the froum rules of posting.
Im new hear, but have a couple of groups and such that I own and 30+ yrs experience and can help where needed if someone wants to head this up.
Do you think that someone would be less likely to misuse, overuse or fail to research an herb if the subject started with "healing" instead of "med"?......or is the concern with the "ownership" of the word "medicinal" and the potential threat of reclassification of healing herbs as a drug, making them generally unavailable?
I'm perfectly happy to use "healing" if that is what is preferred. We consider food to be the first medicine. I still remember when an attempt was made to trademark tumeric and reclass it as a drug. (And how am I suppose to cook when my frequently used seasonings are now available by prescription only?)