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Women's
Disorders
FIBROCYSTIC BREAST DISEASE
Wear cotton bras. (One patient saw benefit in one month.)
Use no coffee or its relatives - chocolate, tea, colas, or beverages
containing caffeine.
MISCARRIAGE
For threatened miscarriage, with painless bleeding, try black haw and
false unicorn, two tablespoons of each, boil in a quart of water 30
minutes. Remove from fire and add one tablespoon of both blue cohosh
and red raspberry leaf tea. Strain and drink a cup every 3-4 hours
until all used. For one patient, it stopped contractions within 20
minutes, although miscarriage of a blighted ovum eventually occurred.
For bleeding after miscarriage, try Cranesbill, 1 teaspoon of tea to
1 cup boiling water.
LABOR - TO START
Blue cohosh - brings on labor if overdue. Also a nervine. Start with
this herb, then go to Black cohosh (Squaw root oxytocic, also helps
joints and muscles.)
MENOPAUSE
Remedy # 1: Black cohosh 1/2 part emmenagogue (balances hormones and
stops bleeding)
Chaste Tree - 1 part. (Because of its high estrogen-like activity, it
cuts sexual desire. It is the greatest help to stimulate LH and FSH to
regulate progesterone, starts menstrual period, balances hormones. False
unicorn 1 part. Licorice 1 part to sweeten 1 quart boiling water
Remedy # 2: 2T licorice, 2T chaste tree, 2T false unicorn, 1T Black cohosh
(squaw vine)
Boil gently 30 minutes in one quart of water. Then pour over 1/2 cup
red raspberry leaves, steep, strain, use 1 quart/day until symptoms are
controlled, then down to 1 pint/day, refrigerating the other pint for
next day.
You may not find evening primrose effective although often used. Good
lifestyle will go far toward minimizing symptoms.
Remedy #3: "Change - 0 - Life" capsules (Nature's Way) are
helpful. They contain Black cohosh root, sarsaparilla root, Siberian
ginseng root, Licorice root, Blessed Thistle herb, Squaw vine herb and
False unicorn root.
PMS
Chaste tree 1 T. (Use 2 T for bad cases to stimulate the corpus luteum.
This much may cause foul smelling gas, but worth it). Dandelion root
1 T (most useful diuretic for PMS. False unicorn 1 T Echinacea 3 T.
Water 1 quart. Simmer 25 minutes and pour onto 2 T skullcap. Steep
20 minutes. Take all through the day, not all at once. At first take
all through the month, but when symptoms seem to be cleared and the
patient is well, try to stop taking the herbs. If symptoms return,
begin again with the herbs only during the symptoms.
Do not use licorice root for PMS, only for dysmenorrhea, as it has estrogens
which worsens PMS. Black cohosh acts as a blocker for unnatural estrogens
which makes it useful in PMS and breast cancer.
LOW THYROID AND WOMEN'S HORMONES, AND PMS
Echinacea, Chaste tree, Dandelion, Milk thistle seed, Hawthorne berry,
False unicorn, Astragalus, Camomile, Siberian Ginseng.
CYSTITIS - Buchu (Soother for the genitourinary tract) Uva ursi (antiseptic
for the genitourinary tract)
FIBROIDS
Chaste tree 1 T, Water, 1 quart. Simmer 25 minutes. Drink daily until
fibroids shrink.
Give a fat-free diet
Hot and cold sitz baths, 30 minutes, interrupting every five minutes
for one minute of cold sitz, about 65-75o
DYSMENORRHEA. - REMEDY # 1:
Mother wort 2 T Boiling water 1 pint Steep 30 minutes. Drink as needed
for pain throughout the day.
DYSMENORRHEA, MUSCLE ACHES AND PAIN - REMEDY # 2:
Take several roots (half pound or so) of fresh ginger and chop them in
a food processor or by hand to a fine pulp. Place this in a heavy pan
with 4-6 cups of water, cover, and bring to a slow boil. Simmer for
five minutes, then remove from heat and allow to cool somewhat. Strain
off liquid as needed and save pulp for compresses or for cooking. Sip
the liquid (diluted as needed for palatability) as a tea. You may wish
to pour about half the liquid in a hot bathtub and immerse body for
half an hour. Sleep well!
FISTULA - RECTO-VAGINAL OR RECTO-PERINEAL FOLLOWING CHILDBIRTH.
Mingle golden seal, cranesbill, bayberry bark and warmed cocoa butter
to make suppositories. Cool enough to roll out in suppositories the
proper diameter and length to fit into the fistula if possible. Cool
in refrigerator. Insert into fistula or both rectum and vagina. For
perineum, put the warm mixture on a mini-pad to keep against the skin
most of the time day and night. May be used for fistulas in Crohn's
disease -or ulcerative colitis.
PREGNANCY
Golden Seal should be avoided in pregnancy if any cramping or discomfort
arises. However, when it is used for acute conditions, this complication
is rare.
NAUSEA (MAY USE IN PREGNANCY, MOTION SICKNESS OR INFECTION)
Mint extract. Purchase a small bottle from the grocery or health food
store. Take it with you on trips if you get carsick. Merely wet the
tip of your finger by covering the top of the bottle, and touch it
to your tongue. Relief comes within minutes. Milk thistle berry, 2
T in 1 quart of gently simmering water, 20 minutes.
GOLDENSEAL (HYDRASTIS) Good for Postpartum hemorrhage and for dysmenorrhea.
It should be avoided during pregnancy if cramping arises. It has anticonvulsive
activity in rats. It lowers the blood pressure in hypertensive laboratory
animals. Goldenseal as well as yarrow will lower blood sugar when it
is excessively high.
SQUAW ROOT - Good to maintain pregnancy in threatened abortion. Has
an oxytocic effect (stimulates the uterus to contract).
BLUE COHOSH augments labor, or starts it up again if stalled.
CRANESBILL - For bleeding after delivery. Use Cranesbill - 1t to 1C.
boiling water.
FOR PAIN - Wild lettuce, white willow bark, valerian root. Mix equal
parts. Use 1T/1c, boil or steep 1/2 hour. ; use 1 cup per hour for pain.
HYPERTHYROIDISM - Bugle weed (Used with hawthorne berry and motherwort,
it is good for the heart)
PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE1 t. Echinacea and Golden Seal tincture taken
every hour in the day, and every two hours during the night. When better,
drop down to every four hours three times a day. May substitute one cup
of tea for one teaspoon of the tincture.
PROLONGED MENSTRUAL BLEEDING (several months or several years)
One and a half quarts of water boiling; 2-1/2 tablespoons of Chaste tree
berries; 2 tablespoons of milk thistle seed; 1 tablespoon of false
unicorn; 1 tablespoon of witch hazel bark. Simmer gently 25 minutes,
remove, and add 2 tablespoons of red raspberry leaf, steep for 20 minutes,
strain. This is one day's supply. If this causes nausea, add 1 teaspoon
of ready prepared soy milk per cup, and it should make it so that it
doesn't cause nausea.
POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE
1 T each of Shepherd's purse, motherwort, bayberry, cinnamon and a pinch
of cayenne made into a tincture and reserved for possible use.
PREMATURE LABOR
1 T. False Unicorn; 2 T. Black Haw Bark; 1 quart boiling water. Simmer
25 minutes, then add 1/2 cup Red Raspberry. Steep 25 minutes. Add echinacea
if suspect possibility of infection (endometritis).
BRAXTON-HICKS contractions and premature labor can often be stopped
by drinking two quarts of plain water.
UTERINE BLEEDING
2-1/2 T. Chaste Tree Berries; 2 T. Milk Thistle Seed; 1 T. False Unicorn
1 T. Witch Hazel Bark 1-1/2 quart boiling water; Simmer 25 minutes.
Remove and add 2 t. Red Raspberry Leaves. Steep. Strain. 1 day's supply.
Add 1 t. soy milk per cup if it causes nausea or diarrhea.
CHOLESTASIS OF PREGNANCY - Treat with charcoal. Use one T of the activated
powder in water per hour.
HEARTBURN OF PREGNANCY
Cheese and milk are common causes of heartburn. If one eliminates all
milk products it usually takes about 2-3 days for symptoms to clear.
It may be the milk proteins rather than lactose intolerance lying at
the root of the problem. The greater the consumption the more likely
to be trouble. Never lie down after meals, as the lower end of the
esophagus is relaxed during pregnancy and allows acid and food to backwash.
FAILURE TO THRIVE
Give a catnip tincture, 3 drops 3 times daily, or one tablespoon of catnip
tea (1t/1c) every hour.
MILK PRODUCTION INCREASEFenugreek 2T+; Chaste Tree 2T+ Milk Thistle
Seed 3T+; 1 1/2 quart water brought to a simmer. Add herbs. Simmer 25
minutes and remove from fire. Add 1/4c Red Raspberry. Steep 30 minutes.
Make fresh daily.
TEAS HAVING HORMONAL EFFECT
Ginkgo, Ginseng, Sylamarin, Pycnogenol, Chaste tree (stimulates pituitary),
Bilberry, Garlic, Astragalus, Licorice and Borge and wild yam (adrenal
cortical-like), Black cohosh Milk thistle seed potentiates liver function
to enhance herbs, dulse (parathyroids).
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