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Folk remedies at menopause for hot flashes

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Last reviewed: 04.07.2025
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There are many folk remedies that help reduce the strength and frequency of hot flashes during menopause. They are not recommended to be taken without a doctor's recommendation, since they, despite the absence of serious contraindications, can lead to a deterioration in the general condition of a woman.

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Recipes for hot flashes during menopause

Folk recipes for menopause will help reduce sweating and normalize blood pressure, which significantly affects the frequency of hot flashes during the day.

Tincture of hawthorn. To prepare this recipe, you will need the fruits or flowers of this plant. Take 5 g of blood-red hawthorn flowers and pour boiled hot water (one glass). Leave in a thermos for 40-45 minutes. Use half a glass twice a day, half an hour before meals. If you do not find flowers, they can be easily replaced with the fruits of this plant. With the help of this recipe, you can regulate the heart rhythm, which is disturbed during menopause. Thus, blood circulation in the brain improves and the number of hot flashes decreases.

Hawthorn infusion (recipe #2). This folk remedy will not only help get rid of hot flashes during menopause, but will also cure some heart diseases and neuroses. To create a hawthorn infusion, you need to take fresh flowers or fruits of this plant and squeeze the juice out of them. Pour the resulting liquid with 95% alcohol and leave for two weeks. To achieve a positive result, it is recommended to take forty drops of this infusion daily.

An infusion of hawthorn and medicinal herbs. Traditional medicine also recommends this recipe to improve a woman's condition during menopause. To prepare it, you need to take immortelle herb, motherwort herb, hawthorn flowers, and chamomile flowers (the ratio of these components should be 4:4:4:1). Pour one glass of boiled hot water. The resulting mixture should be taken three times in 24 hours.

In folk medicine, sage is considered to be the best remedy for hot flashes during menopause. Another positive aspect of taking sage is that it helps strengthen the nervous system and rejuvenate the body. During hot flashes, it is recommended to use the following recipes with this medicinal plant:

  1. Squeeze the juice from fresh sage leaves and take two tablespoons three times every 24 hours.
  2. Brew a special tea from this plant: add one tablespoon of sage to two glasses of boiled hot water. To obtain a long-term result, therapy with such tea should be continued for up to fifteen days.
  3. Take a collection of medicinal herbs (valerian, sage, horsetail) and add one glass of boiled hot water. Leave for half an hour, strain. Drink half a glass twice in 24 hours.

To normalize high blood pressure and thereby reduce the number of hot flashes during menopause, it is recommended to take the following collection. Take an equal amount of fruits or flowers of blood-red hawthorn, one leaf of white mistletoe, one leaf of peppermint, motherwort herb and pour one glass of boiled hot water. Infuse for about half an hour. Strain and take three times a day, half a glass.

Red clover tincture. Take two tablespoons of red clover and pour one glass of boiled hot water. Infuse for up to eight hours. Drink this glass during one day. It is worth dividing the intake into several times half an hour before meals.

Infusion of medicinal hyssop. To prepare, you will need one teaspoon of medicinal hyssop and one glass of boiled hot water. Pour water over the herb and let it brew for twenty minutes. Drink no more than two glasses of the infusion per day. The duration of therapy is twenty days. After that, you need to take a ten-day break. To get a positive result, you need to take five courses.

Homeopathic Remedies for Hot Flashes

Thanks to homeopathic remedies, a woman can significantly improve her condition during menopause, get rid of hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause. This happens due to the fact that such drugs help get rid of depressive mood, eliminate insomnia and normalize the neuropsychic state.

Homeopathic remedies for hot flashes typically contain phytoestrogens, which increase the amount of natural estrogens in a woman's body. So what are the best remedies for treating hot flashes during menopause?

  1. Inoklim is a medicine based on phytoestrogen, which is extracted from soy. This remedy helps not only to reduce the number of hot flashes, but also to eliminate vaginal dryness and itching, improve mood, and cure depression.
  2. Estrovel is a medicine based on extracts of medicinal herbs (nettle, racemose), vitamin E, phenylalanine, folic acid and vitamin B6.
  3. Klimadinon is a medicine based on black cohosh.
  4. Feminalgin is a medicine based on extracts of medicinal plants (onion pasqueflower, black cohosh) and magnesium phosphate.
  5. Feminal is a medicine based on red clover extract.
  6. Femicaps is a medicine based on extracts of medicinal plants (passionflower, vitex), oils (evening primrose, evening primrose), alpha-tocopherol and magnesium oxide.

Cycling from the tides

Cyclim is a natural preparation recommended for use during hot flashes during menopause. Due to its estrogen-like action, this remedy improves a woman’s condition during menopause. It binds to estrogen receptors located in hypothalamic neurons. The preparation also helps to increase diuresis, improve the secretion of digestive glands, relax the muscles in the intestines, relieve fever and reduce inflammatory reactions.

To reduce the main symptoms of menopause, it is recommended to take Tsiklim daily in accordance with the instructions for the drug. The medicine is based on the active component of the extract of dry roots of black cohosh. It is necessary to take the tablets for at least one month to get a positive result from the treatment. Wash down with a sufficient amount of liquid. Take one tablet every 24 hours.

Women who have been diagnosed with an allergy to the main component of the drug, estrogen-dependent tumors, are prohibited from taking the tablets. Taking it can cause the development of pain in the abdomen and allergic reactions.

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Teas for hot flashes

You can significantly reduce the frequency of hot flashes during menopause with the help of special teas. For example, you can take horsetail, which has long been known for helping the female body produce a sufficient amount of hormones, and brew it like regular tea. It is recommended to drink the drink fifteen minutes before eating. And if you want to achieve faster results from such treatment, it is recommended to add calamus to the horsetail each time (the ingredients should be in equal quantities).

Lungwort tea also helps reduce the number of hot flashes during menopause. To obtain a positive result, it is recommended to drink this drink up to four times in 24 hours before meals.

Cucumber lashes for hot flashes

Among the huge range of various folk remedies that help combat hot flashes during menopause, cucumber vines or tops occupy a special place.

To prepare cucumber lashes, dry leaves are suitable, which need to be finely chopped and dried a little more. Next, you need to prepare a special infusion from the dried lashes. Take one tablespoon of the resulting mixture and 600 ml of water. Boil it all together and let it brew a little.

After the tincture has cooled, it must be divided into three equal parts. Take one tablespoon three times in 24 hours until you drink the entire tincture. Then take a month-long break.

This tincture can be easily prepared for the winter, so as not to be left without an effective and safe medicine in the cold season. To do this, dry the tops must be placed in a jar and filled with 60% alcohol. Close the jar tightly with a lid and put it in a dark place so that the tincture is infused. Stir the contents of the jar every day for two weeks. At first, treatment with such a remedy should be started with small portions (one teaspoon twice in 24 hours), then after a week the dose can be increased by one teaspoon. The decoction is taken for one month.

Thanks to cucumber vines, the necessary amount of progesterone begins to be restored in the female body.

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Vitamins for hot flashes

If a woman suffers from constant and quite strong hot flashes, a gynecologist can recommend special vitamins, which, along with other means, help improve the condition during menopause. If menopause is mild, then you can take vitamins to maintain the female body at a normal psychological and physiological level.

To prevent hot flashes and reduce their intensity during menopause, it is recommended to take the following vitamins:

  1. Tocopherol - vitamin E, helps stimulate the ovaries. During menopause, this vitamin helps produce progesterone and estrogen.
  2. Retinol is vitamin A, which has an antioxidant effect.
  3. Ascorbic acid – vitamin C, has an antioxidant effect.
  4. Vitamin D – participates in the process of calcium absorption.
  5. Thiamine and pyridoxine are vitamins B1 and B6, which help improve the functioning of the nervous system.

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