Treatment of menopause with alternative means
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Many women with any ailment first try to find a prescription for getting rid of it in alternative medicine, and if they fail, they turn to doctors. Treatment of menopause with alternative means will give a good result in an integrated approach to the problem, when traditional methods are combined with folk methods. In the arsenal of alternative drugs are widely used phytopreparations containing female sex hormones - estrogens, sedatives, anti-inflammatory, hemostatic medicinal herbs, beekeeping products.
Alternative remedies for menopause from hot flushes
Studies show that half of women who have entered the climacteric period, there are hot flushes. This is a very unpleasant symptom associated with a gradual slowdown in the synthesis of sex hormones until it completely ceases. The vegetative nervous system reacts so much to the restructuring of the woman's body. There are folk remedies for menopause from hot flushes. To eliminate seizures, you need to relax as much as possible, if possible, open the windows if this happens indoors, or get off the transport, take a deep breath, hold your breath and gradually exhale. Repeat several times. At home, you can make foot baths alternating cold (10-15 ° C) and hot (40-45 ° C) water. Finish with cold water. It is better to get rid of synthetic clothes. Natural fabrics will make it easier to survive tides. Often the rolling of a warm wave is associated with an increase in blood pressure. From a large arsenal of medicinal herbs for eliminating tides with climax, grasses that have hypotensive, calming, improving blood flow to the brain will work. Indispensable in this sense is the hawthorn. In its properties, it differs little from a dog rose, and in gynecology it is used because of the high content of flavonoids. To prepare infusions, decoctions, tinctures use both flowers and fruits of the plant. You can prepare such recipes:
- insist in the thermos for about an hour a teaspoon of a dry plant, filled with a glass of boiling water, take 100 mg for half an hour before meals three times a day;
- 100 g of fruit is pressed and poured 0.5 liters of alcohol, insist two weeks, drink a tablespoon 3 times a day.
Hawthorn is often taken in combination with other herbs - motherwort, melissa, peppermint, valerian root. There are pharmacy options for such tinctures. Widely used for tides and sage. It is rich in essential oils, flavonoids, tannins. Drink decoctions of sage, teas, juice of a fresh plant for rejuvenating the body, relieving nervous tension, reducing tides. Of the herbs that are rich in phytohormones, you can use red clover, hyssop, marsh swine. In the recipes of alternative medicine for the treatment of hot flashes, honey and other beekeeping products are often found. You can prepare this mixture: a glass of honey to combine with the juice of 1 lemon, add a glass of carrot juice and horse radish, obtained by dilution with water rubbed root. Take a tablespoon before eating 3 times a day. Will also help resolving the pollen (a teaspoon three times a day). Many homeopathic remedies have been developed to help women cope with tides: inoculum, remens, lefem, climalanin, menopace, menopause, femicaps, tibestan, ovariamine, femiwell, etc.
Alternative remedies for heat and sweating with menopause
Heat and sweating are invariable moons of the tides, so recipes that ease the state of tides should help with these symptoms. Alternative remedies for heat and sweating with menopause can be supplemented with other recipes. So, you can try coriander. It is good to add in various dishes, and also to drink the broth cooked thus: a teaspoon of seeds to fill in with a glass of boiled water, to hold on fire a couple of minutes and to insist. Take a third of the glass before meals. Beneficial effect on the female organism tsimatsifuga. On the basis of this plant there are many homeopathic medicines, for example, climaticplant, climadinone, climactic gel.
Well-established drugs such as sepia (based on the liquid produced by the cuttlefish), pulsatilla (lumbago grass), lachezis (with the use of rattlesnake venom) have proved to be successful. Particular attention during this period should be given to body hygiene in order to avoid unpleasant odors and dermatological complications. Frequent water procedures, contrasting showers, baths with herbal infusions will help to cope with the problem. For the preparation of baths, you can use the antiseptic properties of chamomile, thyme, bitter wormwood. Long walks in the fresh air, swimming, maybe a bicycle, the lack of physical and nervous overstrain will help to pass this difficult part of a woman's life.
How to lose weight with menopause with the help of alternative means?
Slowing down metabolic processes in the body during the menopause even with unchanged portions of food intake may cause weight gain in a woman. How to lose weight with menopause with the help of alternative means, without resorting to debilitating diets and medications? First, you need to give the body a physical load, and secondly, to focus on the regime and quality of nutrition. Exclude from the diet flour, fatty, spicy dishes, sweet. To give preference to fruits and vegetables, food cooked on steamed or boiled. Do not gorge in one trick, make the meals fractional, but frequent. The last meal should be no later than 18 hours. Before eating, you can drink water to fill the stomach with water, not with food.
Among plants and fruits there are "accelerators" of carbohydrate-fat metabolism, which will help get rid of excess weight: ginger, chicory, grapefruit, cinnamon, lemon, fennel and many others. Well managed with this role of wheat germ, because they have the ability to purify the body of toxins, harmful cholesterol, toxins. In addition, in its composition contain a whole storehouse of nutrients: vitamins, amino acids, macroelements. The sprouts of their value reach the size of 1.5-2 mm, they can be eaten separately from the main meal, as well as in the salads. A few spoons a day is enough to achieve the effect of losing weight, in addition, they perfectly satiate. And the most important advice for losing weight - more time to rest, avoid stressful situations, go through life with a good mood.
Alternative means for uterine bleeding in menopause
Uterine bleeding during menopause can be provoked by various causes and this is very dangerous, so rely only on alternative means from uterine bleeding in menopause is not worth it. It is necessary to seek help from a gynecologist and find out the cause of the ailment. If the diagnosis is determined, treatment is prescribed, then on the recommendation of a specialist, you can resort to hemostatic herbs as an additional remedy. Such properties are possessed by nettles, coriander, chokeberry, the root of the snake mountaineer, licorice, peony, sabelnik, krovohlebki, sporish, shepherd's bag, etc. These plants are more effective in collections, they can be purchased at pharmacies, and you can make yourself. The following combinations are possible:
- 1 part mistletoe white; 2 - shepherd's bag, the root of the blood-sucking, yarrow, the bark of the garden's guelder-rose, the horsetail of the field, the flowers of the twig; 3 - nettles;
- on 1 part of a silver tinder and the root of a badan; 2 - the root of the blood-grouse, the mountaineer of the serpent, the arnica of the leafy, the fruits of the hawthorn, the immortelle of the sand; 4 - hips, 5 - blossoms of the twig;
- on 1 part of plantain, shepherd's bag, knotweed; on 2 - marshmallow marsh, grass of geranium, fruits of cherry; 3 - blueberry leaf; 4 - the root of the gristle.
To make infusions, you need to take 2 tablespoons of these fees, put in a thermos, pour 0.5 liters of boiling water, let it brew. Infusion should be taken 4-5 times a day before eating 1/3 cup for 2-3 months.
Alternative remedies for dry skin and vagina with menopause
Decreased estrogen production leads to a decrease in subcutaneous fat, collagen in the body, which leads to thinning of the skin, loss of its elasticity. Alternative means of dryness of the skin and vagina in menopause suggest the use of herbs for ingestion, preparation of baths, broths for washing, douching. To increase skin moisture, you need to drink at least 1.5-2 liters of water per day, if there are no contraindications from the side of the kidneys. It is also good to take in the decoctions of herbs such as the motherboard, uterine borovid, calendula, chamomile, nettle. You can combine these herbs in fees. Well on the skin, there are baths with the addition of decoctions of motherwort, thyme, chamomile. For the face, you can prepare nourishing and moisturizing masks. Components of nutrient masks can be fats of animal, vegetable origin, honey, antiseptic herbs. Here are some recipes:
- a teaspoon of each of the following components: honey, vegetable oil, crushed oat flakes, combine with the egg yolk, mix thoroughly, drip a little lemon juice. The mask should be left on the face for 20 minutes;
- Cucumber juice in a small amount mixed with sour cream and a few drops of vegetable oil, apply to the skin of the face;
- in the season of strawberry grease the face with fresh berries, leave it to dry, wash it off;
- boil the beans until ready, grind it with softened butter, apply to the face for 15-20 minutes.
Dryness in the vagina (atrophic vaginal dermatitis) causes burning, itching, unpleasant sensations during sexual intercourse. From these unpleasant symptoms will help get rid of douches from broths of chamomile, calendula. You can put tampons from a solution of vitamin E, combined with boiled refined vegetable oil. Soda baths will relieve itching. It is also necessary to take a more responsible approach to the diet, enriching it with phytoestrogens, which are sufficient in legumes, nuts, carrots, cabbage, apples, parsley, dates, etc.
Treatment of pruritus with menopause by alternative means
Age changes are often accompanied by itching in the external genitalia, which is associated with thinning of the mucous membrane. Treatment of pruritus with climacteric by alternative means is recommended, as an addition to the main, because. Itching can be caused by other causes.
A gynecologist should establish a diagnosis and prescribe a treatment. It is good to enter in the menu more products containing estrogens. Leader in their content are flax seeds. Two tablespoons a day, added to the porridge in a crushed form, will be enough. Slightly less hormones in pumpkin, sunflower seeds, sesame. Bean plants contain special hormones - isoflavonoids, very useful for the female body. Especially there are a lot of them in soy, lentils, green peas. A high content of estrogen in the root of ginseng, licorice, red clover, chamomile, arnica, ashberry, sage. It is useful to drink broths and infusions of these herbs. Alternative recipes will help cope with the overgrazing. For syringing and baths, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory properties of dill, parsley, fennel, chamomile, calendula, yarrow, oak bark are used.
Treatment of mastopathy with menopause by alternative means
Hormonal changes caused by a decrease in the production of female sex hormones can affect the condition of the mammary glands and provoke the proliferation of connective tissue and the formation of benign seals. To eliminate such phenomena (mastopathy) resort to the correction of the hormonal background with the help of hormone replacement therapy. In combination with the main treatment is possible and treatment of mastopathy with menopause by alternative means. One of these is the reception of tinctures from the walnut partitions. They need a few minutes to boil in water, so they softened, then pour vodka or alcohol and a week to insist (for 10 nuts a glass of vodka or half a glass of alcohol). Drink twice a day after meals, mixing a teaspoon of tincture with the same amount of water. Showed infusion of hop cones (15 cones fill 0.5 liters of boiling water, insist an hour). Use before meals three times a day for a tablespoon.
When mastopathy, the propolis tincture is well established. Take it necessary, mixed with water (a tablespoon of tincture to a glass of water), a teaspoon before eating.
You can apply compresses at night on the compaction area, soaking the cheesecloth with a mixture of a tablespoon of honey, a few drops of linseed oil and a spoonful of aloe juice. Such procedures should be done for at least 10 days.
Applied to the chest and cabbage leaves, compresses from rubbed carrots, from leaves of celandine, mixed with melted butter, etc.
Regular use of alternative recipes in combination with basic treatment will necessarily give a positive result in the treatment of mastopathy.
Alternative means for insomnia with menopause
The climacteric period is characterized by increased anxiety, depression, depression. Against their background, there is a violation of sleep, insomnia. Alternative means for insomnia with menopause are based on the soothing properties of medicinal herbs, apyproduktov, water procedures. The simplest measures of normalizing sleep are a healthy lifestyle without physical overload, overeating before bed, with obligatory walks in any weather. Promote a good sleep coniferous, lavender baths before going to bed in warm water. To sleep it is necessary to go to bed at the same time, limiting watching TV, especially exciting nerves of programs. Before going to bed, you should exclude drinks containing caffeine.
Helps to fall asleep a glass of warm milk with a teaspoon of honey, soothing teas with chamomile, linden, lavender, valerian root, tagolga, hops, melissa. You can make a pillow from summer-cut grasses, add a bay leaf, their fragrance will relax, soothe. At high arterial pressure also there are problems with falling asleep. Pressure should be controlled and take antihypertensive drugs, but there is a means by which the blood flows from the head and the sleep improves. To do this, you need to put a heating pad with hot water on the calves of the legs, the vessels will expand and the blood will rush to the peripheral organs. Prolonged insomnia leads to nervous exhaustion of the body, therefore it is necessary to try all known methods for its elimination.
Treatment of endometriosis with menopause by alternative means
In the normal course of the climax, the endometrium, beginning with the premenopause, becomes thinner, the menstrual periods gradually stop. Sometimes it starts to expand, causing the disease endometriosis. Along with conservative and surgical treatment, there is treatment for endometriosis with menopause by alternative means. Many herbs used to treat other gynecological diseases are also used in endometriosis. This is also the bark of a garden kalina, and silver silverback, and a shepherd's bag, and the root of ayr, and nettles are dioecious and many others. You can make as decoctions and infusions of individual herbs, and combine them in herbal preparations. Separately, it is necessary to distinguish the properties of the uterus of the hog in the treatment of this disease. A tablespoon of grass is poured into two cups of boiling water and placed on a water bath for a quarter of an hour. After the broth has cooled, it is filtered and drunk 100 ml an hour before meals once a day.
Well-established juice of fresh beet, a day must drink 100 mg of juice. Effective and clean, use for infusions can be both fresh and dry leaves of grass. You need a tablespoon of grass to pour a glass of boiling water, insist several hours, take 50 mg before meals three times a day. Propolis and honey are used in the composition of candles, tampons, extracts. At present, it is not necessary to be an expert herbalist, many phytopreparations can be found in pharmacies. Apply warm compresses on the belly of blue clay, you can go through hirudotherapy (treatment with leeches). By resorting to alternative prescriptions in the treatment of endometriosis, do not forget to consult a doctor.
How to prolong menstruation with climacteric alternatives?
In menopause, menstrual periods become irregular and gradually stop. This is due to the termination of the functions of the ovary, the woman becomes unable to bear childbirth. The body is getting old and many women want to push back this period. Without resorting to hormone therapy, you can prolong the menstrual period with menopause by alternative means. Using phytohormones, which are in nature, you can maintain the maturation of the egg, providing a substitute estrogenic effect. Increase the production of sex hormones, soybean, green peas, lentils, flax seed, herbs such as wormwood, red clover, rhodiola fourfold, field field, sage, tsimitsifuga, oregano, etc. Herbal treatments can be carried out for 2-3 months, and then do break.
To prolong the functions of the ovaries, the mental state of the woman is also important. Stress and nervous overexcitation are bad helpers in this. Therefore, it is not superfluous to saturate for the night soothing herbs: motherwort, valerian, hawthorn; in the morning - fortifying and toning up: rhodiola, aralia, leuzeum; improving arterial blood circulation: arnica, snake-head, leotard, cherub. Applying alternative recipes women should remember one truth - the one who wants and wants to be cured is cured.