It is major news when it turns out that favorable treatment (HRT) for menopausal women is harmful. But for people who have blown whistles into both menopausal scientific therapy and alternative therapies for about twenty years, that is not news at all. Recently, as quoted in Newsweek magazine, "Menopause is not a pathology, but a loophole of power, intensity appears as a power surge, menopause is a violent spiritual journey." Most treatments including ERT, HRT, isoflavone, and progesterone cream can interrupt this process and severely damage the health of women.
Menopause is bright
The energy side of menopause is a special concern for me.
As a longtime student of yoga, I had many similarities between menopausal symptoms and the well-known esoteric goal of "waking up Kundalini." The idea presented in this section may seem odd or esoteric, but it contains a strong message about menopause at the heart of the Wise Woman approach.
Kundalini [is] Its root [of] All spiritual experiences ... Kundalini is a special kind of energy known in many cultures including Tibet, India, Sumer, China, Ireland, Aztec, Greece. Kundalini is said to be hot, fast, powerful, and big. It exists in the earth, in all life, and in each person. Psychoanalyst Carl Dijon was called Kundalini Anima. Kundalini is usually drawn like a serpent at the base of the spell, but if there is a hysterectomy, there is a story of a woman's mystery in the womb or in the presence of the uterus. Both puberty and menopause, women's kundalini is difficult to control and can cause numerous symptoms.
East Indian yoga spends a lifetime learning to activate or awaken the Kundalini. This is also called "realization enlightenment". When they succeed, intense overheating energy goes up the spinal column, passes through the nerve, dilates blood vessels, and supplies nourishment with hormones. As Kundalini continues to move the spine, the functions of the endocrine system, the cardiovascular system, and the nervous system change. Not only yoga but also women who notices themselves. Menopause is a kind of enlightenment. Hot flash is a kundalini training session.
Drink hormones? These herbs are for you
More and more American women are using herbal remedies to help menopause. People taking ERT (estrogen replacement therapy) or HRT (hormone replacement therapy) may find that there are many things to offer it for traditional Chinese medicine.
Herbs for women with ERT / HRT include those that alleviate side effects and those that counter the problems caused by hormones.
Herb Helper Side Effect Counter
Water retention It is the most frequently quoted symptom due to complaints of hormone replacement. Herbal tinctures such as dandelion, tea, ordinary foods not only relieve pain but also help at the root of the problem, to prevent recurrence.
Dandelion tincture ( Tobacco seedlings ) Strengthen the liver and help to handle the excess hormones you are taking. As the liver works, the kidneys work better, and the tissue no longer enlarges. Each dose is 10-20 drops of water or juice 2-3 three times a day with several ounces of water. If there is a problem with digestion, take dandelion in front of meals. Otherwise, there is no problem at all times. You can safely take dandelions safely daily for several years or years, if necessary or necessary.
Cleavage herb tincture ( Gallium molluga ) Instructs lymphoid tissue to move. Relief from edema is usually rapid when 20 to 30 drops are collected with several ounces of water or juice. Repeat up to 6 times at time intervals as necessary. Cleaver is particularly useful for relieving swollen pain.
Foods that maintain water retention include asparagus, neta, corn, corn silk tea, grape, cucumber, watermelon (watermelon seed tea), parsley, celery, tea, green tea.
headache It is the second most common side effect of hormone use. Unfortunately, these are also common to women with menopause who do not take hormones. Dandelion, yellow dock, milk thistle, burdock, garden sage, calvaria, and St. Herbs that alleviate headaches without acting like drugs like John & Joneswort are generally considered safe hormones.
Chinese herbal medicine says headaches are caused by liver stress. My favorite liver strengthening herbs are dandelion, yellow dock, milk thistle seed, and burdock. I use 15-25 drops of tincture one at a time, several times a day for 2 weeks. If symptoms persist, I will switch to another herb.
Sage of the garden Leaf strong tea ( Salvia officinalis ) Provides immediate relief of headaches and helps to prevent future things. It also brings a night sweat. Skull tincture ( Scutellaria · Latiflora ) And St.Johns / John Wort ( Hiramium · Forforatum Relieve pain and treat muscle cramps. Please drop 5 to 20 drops of skull, St. J & # 39; s with the first signs. It is not the first thought of a headache. Repeat doses every 5 minutes until pain is gone. Skullcap has a very sedative effect, especially at high doses.
Plant companion to prevent problems caused by ingestion of hormones
Breast cancer For women who use ERT for 5 years or more, the risk increases by 20%. Using HRT for over 5 years will increase breast cancer risk by 40%. Continuous use every five years increases the risk. In addition, women taking ERT have a much higher chance of having uterine cancer or endometrial cancer. All women with hormone dependence have an increased risk of lung cancer and ovarian cancer. Food such as red clover and nutritious herbs, beans and yogurt can easily eat without cancer.
Red clover flower ( Brassicaceae ), By brewing with a powerful infusion (1 ounce herb is soaked in boiling water for at least 4 hours) for 1 minute, you can burn cancer by providing a phytoestrogens to combat the oral hormone's cancer promoting effect Prevent. The usual dose is 2-4 glasses a day. Infusion has a taste like black tea, and if you like you can add flavor with mint.
Soybean "milk" and tofu are not recommended for uncooked beans and non-germinated soybeans because it contains anti-nutritional factors that promote bone loss and dementia. Miso and tamari will definitely help prevent breast cancer, but soy isoflavone may promote it.
Yogurt helps to build a strong immune system. Women who eat yoghurt quarts in a week have 700% less cancer than women who do not eat yoghurt.
Dry eye More than 9% of women using ERT and 7% of women receiving HRT suffer. The annual risk of continuous use increases by 70%. The longer the women use hormones, the greater the risk. Herbs such as auto straw, chamomile, chicken and so on help to hide this problem and prevent it.
Injection of oats ( Avena sativa ) Cool the eyes from the inside, moisten them, and make strong bones. Please use one ounce dry herbs in a quarter bottle. Please close the lid tightly with boiling water. Please spend more than 4 hours suddenly. The dose is 2-4 glasses a day. Refrigerated after training.
Cucumber slices will ease dry eyes. Chamomile tea bags are also similar.
The ultimate ally for women with dry eye is fresh chicken ( Stellaria's media ), And applied as a cataplasm to closed eyes. Leave for 5 minutes or heat until the plant material feels warm. Repeat as necessary.
stroke And heart attack Although it is actually increasing due to the use of ERT / HRT, modern medicine has insisted on that opposition for a long time. A major double-blind trial conducted to date has created a larger gap between the ability to improve the cardiovascular health of ERT / HRT and its actual results. Let's protect your heart with foods such as nutritious and harmonious herbs, breast milk, hawthorn, cherry.
Motherwort ( Leonurus cardiaca Tincture helps the mind. The Japanese insist that it is a secret of longevity. The dose is 5 to 15 drops twice a day. Mother daughter also relieves heat stroke, relieves tachycardia, relieves anxiety. It is an all-in-one treatment for menopausal women.
Hawthorne ( Crataegus oxycantha ) Flowers, leaves, fruits are all used to maintain the health of the heart and to control the fluid accumulation of heart tissue. Dosage is 20 to 30 drops of tincture, 2 to 4 times a day, or a cup of meal and tea. This vast shrub is considered to be the finest heart tonic in the world.
Cherry is better than apple to keep the doctor away. Dry cherries and cherry juice, cherry tin key.
More than three quarters of women over the age of 50 in the United States reject ERT / HRT. If you want to participate in them tapers gradually reduce your dosage while continuing to use nutrition and toning herb like dandelion, motherwort, red clover, oats and seaweed.
There are many types of estrogens
- Women make estrogens.
- Plants make estrogen and estrogenic compounds.
- Chemicals, especially organochlorine, act like estrogen (heterologous estrogen).
Pharmaceutical companies make estrogens from substances such as horse urine, wild Yamaha rubber, petrochemicals. Tamoxifen is used to treat and prevent breast cancer and is a type of pharmaceutical estrogen.
Females make at least 30 kinds of estrogens such as estradiol, estrone and escase. Estradiol is the strongest. It turns on at puberty and turns off at menopause. Estradiol has a positive correlation with breast cancer. Other human estrogens are not. Even in those that reduce the amount of estradiol the female gives birth (eg pregnancy, lactation, early menopause, and late puberty) there is a risk of breast cancer diagnosis.
Phytoestrogens counteract the adverse effects of estradiol by competing for the same receptor site.
Estradiol is a strong estrogen and is metabolized by a long pathway. Other estrogens that our bodies make are weak estrogens and are metabolized in a short course. Alcohol turns off short paths. Plant estrogens are weak hormones and hormone precursors. Phytoestrogens in food are metabolized by short pathways. Plant estrogens seem to protect tissues from the cancer causing effects of estradiol, heterologous estrogen and pharmacological hormones. Phytoestrogens in food prevent cancer and promote health. Phytoestrogen supplements and processed soybean counterfeit foods are the opposite. Breast cancer develops frequently 4 times in women who excrete less phytoestrogen by-products than women who have much urinary excretion.
Phytoestrogens are common to food. They are focused on seeds (cereals, beans, nuts, fruits) and roots. As an exception to the rule that plants do not contain human hormones, French beans, rice, apple seeds, licorice, and pomegranate seeds contain "weak" estrogen estrone.
To remember the greatest benefits of phytoestrogen-like foods and herbs:
- Isolated phytoestrogens are not as safe as those of "matrix".
- To use plant hormones, active and healthy intestinal flora is necessary.
- Herbs and foods rich in phytoestrogens need to be used in various ways.
- Phytoestrogens may have different effects on women who do not have ovaries.
Plants contain many types of phytoestrogens. In addition, it contains minerals and other ingredients, so our body helps qualify phytoestrogens and can be used safely. Red clover is rich in minerals and contains all four of the main types of phytoestrogens: lignan, coumestane, isoflavone, resorcylic acid lactone. This is the best-known anti-cancer drug in the world. Generally, foods and herbs rich in plant estrogens, except licorice, show anticancer properties. However, isoflavones are counterproductive when isolated (usually from soy). It promotes the proliferation of breast cancer cells in the laboratory.
Plant hormones, including most phytoestrogens, can not be used by humans. However, we can turn them into what can be used with the help of intestinal bacteria. Excretion of phytoestrogens sharply decreases when women ingest antibiotics. Please eat yogurt, miso, low pasteurized sauerkraut, home-made beer and wine, hand-made fruits and salads, sourdough bread, whey fermented vegetables and get your intestinal flora. (For whey fermented vegetable recipes, please refer to Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon.)
3. Plants with very abundant phytoestrogens are regarded as powerful herbal medicines. Plants that are a good source of phytoestrogens are considered food. Food is indeed our medicine - the exercise I claim - it is also true that medicine is more dangerous than food. Food rich in phytoestrogens is different from medicinal plants rich in phytoestrogens. They have different places in my life.
- We weigh and eat phytoestrogen like food every day.
- I regularly use phytoestrogen - like food herbs in moderate amounts (not every day).
- I rarely take phytoestrogenic herbs in small amounts for a limited time.
Plant estrogen foods are the basis of healthy diet and longevity. The first food listed is the best of the phytoestrogens. The best meal includes not only one but also many choices for each list.
- Whole grain flour (rye, oat, barley, millet, rice, wheat, corn)
- Edible seed (buckwheat, sesame, sunflower, pumpkin, amaranth, quinoa)
- Beans (yellow beans, black turtle beans, baby lima, anasazi bean, red kidney bean, red lentils, soybeans)
- Leaf green and seaweed (parsley, nettle, kelp, cabbage, broccoli, keel, collards, lamb quarter)
- Fruit (olive, cherry, grape, apple, pear, peach, plum, strawberry, blackberry, raspberry, salmon fruit, apricot, crab apple, kwan, rosehip, blueberry)
- Olive oil and seed oil. Garlic, onions and their cousins Nira, chicken, scallion, slope, shellot
Phytoestrogen-like food-like herbs are generally regarded as long-lived tonics. For optimum effect, please use only one from the list below and stick it for at least 3 months.
- Citrus Peel, Leaf and / or Root of Dandelion, Fenugreek Seed, Flax Seed, Green Tea, Hop, Red Clover, Red Wine.
Plant estrogen-like herbs are usually too powerful for long-term use. It is safest to use only one herb at a time from the list below (alphabetical order), and it is most safe to use, but it may mean daily use for several months. For more information on these herbs, including specific dosages and precautions, New menopause is wise women's path .
- Agave leaves, black pepper roots, blackcurrant, black leaves, brown leaves, sweet bark, roots of animals and plants, club roots of demons, false unicorn roots, carrot roots, herbal herbs, licorice, medicinal herbs ,, Raspberry leaves, family plants (most parts), sage leaves, salsaparilla roots, coconut palms, wild yam roots, Yarrow flowers.
4. Most of the warnings concerning phytoestrogen herbs are focused on the proven ability to thicken the uterine walls of the ovariectomized animals. This may encourage cancer as well as encouraging uterine cancer by ERT stimulating cell proliferation. Women who do not have an ovary are probably safe to eat phytoestrogen-like foods, but they may want to use phytoestrogen herbs, especially ginseng, animals and plants, licorice, red clover, wild yam, etc. in small amounts for a short period of time I do not.
PHYTOESTROGENIC Plant news notes (updated in June 2002)
- Recent studies indicate that black pepper does not inhibit luteinizing hormone, has no estrogenic activity, and does not contain estrogen related compounds. On the head of the red clover flower contains many hormone-like flavonoids such as isoflavone, daidzein, genistein, formononetin, biocan, sitosterol, cumestrol, etc. (especially six times more active than soybean). The Red Clover contains all four major estrogen isoflavones. There are only two types of soybeans. Cup of red clover infusion (not tea) contains ten times more phytoestrogens than soy beverage, is rich in calcium, has few calories and contains no sugar.
- Australian researchers have reported that millions of lambs have been eradicated annually, after sheep eaten clover in a meadow. However, the red clover was renamed as a fertilization promoter. What's wrong? Stephen Buhner, the creator of the secret language of plants, says that clover plants make thin compounds in the blood (which cause abortion) at overgrazing, otherwise they do not do so. Plants can fight it inside out.
- When untreated soybeans replace animal proteins (meat and milk), their malnutrition causes vulnerability to fragile bone, thyroid problems, memory loss, visual impairment, irregular heart beat, depression, infection I will. Unfermented soybeans cause high agglutination of erythrocytes, and hemoglutin is highly likely to increase the risk of stroke. It is also impressively rich in aluminum (over 100 times more than found in the same amount of actual milk). Eating bean curd more than once a week doubled the risk of Alzheimer's disease in a few Japanese men who studied for 30 years.
- Human intestinal bacteria can digest sugar molecules from steroid saponin of wild yam and produce diosgenin. The laboratory makes progesterone from diosgenin, but our body can not. Diosgenin itself has weak estrogenic activity. According to Australian herbalist Ruth Trickey, "a more certain explanation [for the observed effects of wild yam] ...that is [diosgenin] Interaction with the hypothalamus and pituitary hormones and ... start ovulation.
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