How to Use Alternative Medicine to Relieve Menopause Symptoms

Menopause refers to the time in a woman's life when she stops ovulating and menstruating. When this occurs, the body stops producing two major hormones, estrogen and progesterone. The loss of both cause a variety of unpleasant symptoms, like hot flashes, headaches, irritability, depression, heart palpitations and anxiety. Due to the delicate nature of menopause, conventional medications may exacerbate its symptoms. To combat the symptoms of menopause, you may want to consider following an alternative medicine treatment like yoga. Because yoga combines meditation and physical postures, it will help reduce stress and anxiety. You might also use color therapy, which incorporates balancing bodily energy in reaction to specific colors. Follow these steps to learn more.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Computer with Internet access
• Yoga instructions or classes

Use Yoga to Relieve Menopause Symptoms

1. Learn about the yoga and its effects on menopause symptoms at the "Health World Online" Web site (see Resources below).

2. Pick up a thorough instruction video on yoga basics.

3. Check your local community college to see if it offers beginning yoga courses.

4. Ask your health club about yoga classes. Some health clubs even offer yoga courses specifically for women with menopause symptoms.

5. Be consistent with yoga. To realize the greatest amount of relief from your symptoms, you'll need to practice yoga several times a week.

Use Color Therapy to Relieve Menopause Symptoms

6. Find a quiet location away from distractions and disruptions.

7. Fight depression by visualizing orange light bathing your body. While you're concentrating on letting the orange in, allow its complementary color, blue, to flow out.

8. Reduce your anxiety levels by picturing yourself in green light while imagining all of the red light inside of you disappearing.

9. Increase your concentration by visualizing yourself surrounded by the color yellow.

10. Discover more healing colors of the spectrum by visiting the "Color Therapy Healing" Web site (see Resources below).

Tips & Warnings

• Color therapy is an inexpensive way to relieve menopause symptoms, while yoga is a slightly more expensive alternative. Choose the ideal treatment for you by weighing the benefits of each, your current financial situation and resources available to you.
• Don't use alternative medicine as a substitute for a physician's care, especially in a life-threatening emergency. Should you experience sudden pain, unexplained bleeding, difficulty breathing, or loss of consciousness, it's best to contact your doctor immediately.

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