Herbal Remedies & Menopause

Video Transcript

"Hello my name is Dr. Susan Jewell. Now in this clip I’m going to talk to you about certain ways what you can do to help you transition into menopause or if you’re actually in menopause and to help decrease the severity of some of the symptoms of menopause. Now herbal remedies are also one of the ways that you can try to be able to help reduce some of the symptoms of menopause. Now before you take any kind of herbal remedies or any kind of alternative complementary medicine to try to stay with the signs and symptoms of your condition you must go and consult with a medical professional, first, your doctor and get his advice as to whether you should start taking it or not. That’s a very important thing to remember. But however if your doctor says it’s fine and you want to go ahead and try to see if you can relieve some of the symptoms by using herbal remedies there are certain herbs out there that have been shown that helps with menopausal symptoms like for example hot flashes. Now some herbs like black cohosh and ginseng have shown to be able to reduce the severity of hot flashes, not that it eliminates hot flashes, it reduces it and also reduces the frequency of the episodes so that maybe you should go and experiment if the doctor says. Your medical doctor says it’s fine to go and look at, in the herbal stores and also the local health food stores for herbal medicines. You can get herbal medicines as the, as the raw plant itself and then mix it up yourself and make the, the mixture to drink or to eat. Or you can buy it ready packaged, for example such things as, you can buy it in a tea form, in a tea bag and you can drink it in a nice cup of tea or you can buy it in these forms where you can add, a powdered form where it’s slightly processed but you can add it to your food so you can add, you know, add that extra effect of the herbs in your food or you can buy them like this in this Chinese store where you can buy all sorts of herbal plants that you could try to help to relive some of the symptoms of menopause. "