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Monday, February 08, 2010
Extracts might ease hot flashes
By Joe & Teresa Graedon
Q: What is a safe home remedy for severe night sweats and hot flashes?
A: The first step is to keep your bedroom cool. Make sure you exercise regularly. Research shows that active women have less trouble with hot flashes.
Herbal products such as Pycnogenol (pine bark extract), Remifemin (black cohosh extract) or St. John's wort (hypericum extract) may be helpful (Menopause, February 2010).
We are sending you our Guide to Menopause, with a discussion of prescription products as well as numerous nondrug approaches for these symptoms. It also can be downloaded for $2 from our Web site: www.peoplespharmacy.com.
Q: My grandmother administered, with great success, a pomegranate "infusion" for treating diarrhea. She would cut the fruit in half, boil it in water and reduce it. It's nasty-tasting but effective, and we continue to use it in our family.
A: We have heard from a few other readers that pomegranate juice can help. A Caribbean remedy uses the dried red pomegranate peel to make a type of tea to treat diarrhea. It sounds like your grandmother's remedy is a variation on that theme.
Q: I have had restless legs and charley-horse cramps for years. I did not want to take prescription drugs and found something else that works.
I take a magnesium tablet at bedtime (30 mg calcium, 134 mg magnesium, 5 mg zinc). I can actually stretch my legs in the morning without cramping.
A: Thanks for the recommendation. This should cause no trouble and might help somebody else. People with kidney problems should avoid extra magnesium.
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