Alternative remedies for menopause from hot flushes
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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There are many alternative drugs that help reduce the strength and frequency of hot flashes during menopause. They are not recommended to be taken without the advice of a doctor, since they, despite the absence of serious contraindications, can lead to a deterioration in the general condition of women.
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Recipes from hot flushes with menopause
Alternative recipes from menopause help reduce sweating and normalize blood pressure, which greatly affects the frequency of hot flashes during the day.
Tincture from hawthorn. To prepare this recipe, you will need the fruits or flowers of this plant. Take 5 grams of blood-red hawthorn and pour boiled hot water (one glass). Leave in the thermos for 40-45 minutes. Eat half a glass twice per 24 hours half an hour before meals. If you have not found the flowers, they can be replaced without any problems by the fruits of this plant. With the help of this recipe, you will be able to regulate the heart rhythm, which is disturbed by menopause. Thus, blood circulation in the brain improves and the number of tides decreases.
Infusion of hawthorn (recipe number 2). This alternative means will not only help get rid of hot flashes during menopause, but also cure some heart diseases, neuroses. To create the infusion from hawthorn, it is necessary to take fresh flowers or fruits of this plant and squeeze out the juice from them. Pour the resulting liquid 95% alcohol and insist for two weeks. To achieve a positive result, it is recommended to take forty drops of this infusion daily.
Napar of hawthorn and medicinal herbs. To improve the condition of a woman during menopause, alternative medicine also recommends this recipe. For its preparation you need to take the grass of the cudweed, lawn grass, hawthorn flowers, chamomile flowers (the ratio of these components should be 4: 4: 4: 1). Pour a glass of boiled hot water. The resulting mixture must be taken three times in 24 hours.
In alternative medicine, it is believed that sage is the best remedy for hot flashes during menopause. Another positive aspect of sage intake is the fact that it helps to strengthen the nervous system and rejuvenate the body. During tides it is recommended to use such recipes with this medicinal plant:
- From fresh sage leaves squeeze out the juice and take it two tablespoons three times in 24 hours.
- Stew a special tea from this plant: one tablespoon of sage to add in two glasses of boiled hot water. To obtain a long-lasting result, this tea should be continued for up to fifteen days.
- Take a collection of medicinal herbs (valerian, sage, horsetail) and add one glass of boiled hot water. Insist half an hour, drain. Drink half a glass twice in 24 hours.
To normalize the increased pressure and, thereby, reduce the number of hot flushes with menopause, it is recommended to take the next collection. Take the same number of fruits or flowers of blood-red hawthorn, one sheet of white mistletoe, one sheet of peppermint, grass motherwort and pour one glass of boiled hot water. Insist, approximately, half an hour. Strain and take three times in 24 hours for half a glass.
Tincture of red clover a. Take two tablespoons of red clover and pour one cup of boiled hot water. Infuse up to eight hours. Drink this glass for one day. It is worth to divide the reception several times half an hour before meals.
Infusion of medicinal hyssop. For cooking, you need one teaspoon of medicinal hyssop and one glass of boiled hot water. Pour the grass with water, insist twenty minutes. Drink no more than two glasses of infusion per day. The duration of therapy is twenty days. After this, you need to make a ten-day break. To get a positive result, you need to drink five courses.
Homeopathic Remedies for Tides
Thanks to homeopathic remedies, a woman can significantly improve her condition with menopause, get rid of hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause. This is due to the fact that such drugs help to get rid of depressive mood, eliminate insomnia and normalize the neuropsychic state.
As a rule, homeopathic preparations from tides contain phytoestrogens, which increase the amount of natural estrogens in a woman's body. What are the most appropriate tools for treating hot flushes with menopause?
- Inoklim - a medicine based on phytoestrogen, which is extracted from soy. This tool helps not only to reduce the amount of hot flashes, but also to eliminate dryness and itching in the vagina, improve mood, cure depression.
- Estrovel is a medicine based on extracts of medicinal herbs (nettle, racemose), vitamin E, phenylalanine, folic acid and vitamin B6.
- Climadinone is a drug based on ricicosis cimisifugi.
- Feminalgin - a drug based on extracts of medicinal plants (onion lumbago, tsimitsifuga racimosa) and magnesium phosphate.
- Feminal is a medicine based on an extract from a red clover.
- Femikaps is a medicine based on extracts of medicinal plants (passoflora, vitex), oils (evening primrose, autumn sediment), alpha-tocopherol and magnesium oxide.
Cyclime from the tides
Cyclime is a natural preparation that is recommended for taking during hot flushes with menopause. Thanks to estrogen-like action, this remedy improves the condition of a woman with menopause. It binds to estrogen receptors that are in the hypothalamic neurons. The drug also helps to increase diuresis, improve the secretion of digestive glands, relax the muscles in the intestines, remove heat and reduce inflammatory reactions.
To reduce the main symptoms of menopause, it is recommended to take Cyclime daily according to the instructions to the drug. Drug based on the active component of the extract of dry roots of tsimicifugi. Take the pill necessary at least one month to get a positive result from the treatment. Drink plenty of fluids. One tablet is used in 24 hours.
Women who have been diagnosed as having an allergy to the main component of the drug, estrogen-dependent tumors, are not allowed to take tablets. Admission can cause the development of pain in the abdomen and allergic reactions.
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Teas from the tides
Significantly reduce the frequency of hot flashes during menopause can be with the help of special teas. For example, you can take a field horsetail, which has long been known for helping the female body produce enough hormones, and brew it as regular tea. Drink a drink recommended fifteen minutes before eating. And if you want to achieve more rapid results of such treatment, it is recommended each time to add to the field horsetail a bog ayr (the ingredients should be in equal quantities).
Tea from the lungwort also helps to reduce the number of hot flushes with menopause. To get a positive result, it is recommended to drink this drink up to four times in 24 hours before eating.
Cucumbers from tides
Among the vast assortment of a variety of alternative remedies that help overcome hot flashes in menopause, a special place is occupied by cucumber whips or tops.
For the preparation of cucumber lashes dry leaves are suitable, which must be finely chopped and a little more dried. Next of the dried lashes need to prepare a special infusion. Take one tablespoon of the resulting mixture and 600 ml of water. All this boil together and let it brew a little.
After the tincture has cooled, it must be divided into three equal parts. Take them one tablespoon three times in 24 hours, until you drink all the tincture. Next is to make a monthly break.
This tincture can easily be prepared for the winter, so as not to stay in the cold season without an effective and safe medication. To do this, the dried tops must be placed in a jar and filled with 60% alcohol. Close the jar tightly and put it in a dark place so that the tincture is infused. For two weeks, every day, interfere with the contents of the can. First, treatment with such a device should start with small portions (one teaspoon twice in 24 hours), then a week later the dose can be increased by one teaspoon. The broth is taken within one month.
Thanks to cucumber lashes in the female body, the necessary amount of progesterone begins to recover.
Vitamins from the tides
If a woman is tormented by persistent and rather violent tides, the gynecologist can advise special vitamins, which, along with other remedies, help improve the condition with menopause. If the climacterium has a slight degree of severity, then you can drink vitamins to maintain the female body at a normal psychological and physiological level.
To prevent hot flashes and reduce their strength in menopause, it is recommended to take the following vitamins:
- Tocopherol - vitamin E, helps stimulate the work of the ovaries. With menopause, this vitamin helps to produce progesterone and estrogen.
- Retinol - vitamin A, has an antioxidant effect.
- Ascorbic acid - vitamin C, has an antioxidant effect.
- Vitamin D - is involved in the process of calcium assimilation.
- Thiamine and pyridoxine are vitamins B1 and B6, which help improve the functioning of the nervous system.