Hormone therapy was once the most popular option for menopausal women. It was widely practiced to relieve menopause symptoms. It was advised and recommended. But nevertheless, more and more women were getting conscious about hazards that this kind of treatment poses and came to conclusion that hormone replacement therapy isn’t the best method to resolve to. It turns out that there are a great deal of options to treat symptoms of menopause. And natural and herbal treatment seems to become the most popular at present time. It happens because herbal remedies are considered to be quite effective in treating menopause and because they have little or no side effects at all.
There are 2 main types of herbs that can be used as menopause remedies – non estrogenic and phytoestrogen. Non estrogenic herbs don’t help to produce estrogens in the woman’s organism. What they really do is nurturing the hormonal glands, so the latter start to produce estrogenes in more quantity. So non estrogenic herbal remedies help the body produce natural hormones.
Phytoestrogen herbs have estrogenic properties so that they produce additional estrogens in the body of a menopauseal woman. Among those herbs are black cohosh and dong quai. Nevertheless, phytoestrogen herbs are not the best option for treating menopause. Because if a menopause woman takes something that’s already increasing the production of estrogen, her body might decrease its own natural production of it. So in the end of it there will be a general decline of hormones in the organism.
So if you are looking for a safe menopause treatment that has almost no side effects, consider taking the non estrogenic herbs. Though it can take much more time before first results will become evident (in comparison with traditional over the counter drugs and phytoestrogen herbs), they are really safer, cheaper and quite reliable.
