HERB - Menstrual Cramps -- the disertation

[Sandy M Koenig]

Where do you live?

I agree on the doctor thing.  My uncle has a doctor that prescribes
so many pills that he calls him "the pill doctor" and we know who
he means.  My grandmother had him also and he made her sicker.
Once we changed her doctor, she got better

Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore"


On Thu, 14 May 1998 23:32:38 EDT CorwynWdwd <CorwynWdwd at aol.com> writes:
>Katherine
> 
>>I'll have to look in my cupboard to find the brand.) that contains 
>red
>raspberry, Dong >Quai, & ginger
>
>Interesting, I've had good sucess with blackberry leaf, catnip and/or 
>ground
>ivy and ginger, but of course, everybody's a little different. Could 
>the red
>raspberry leaf and blackberry leaf have similar constituients? Aside 
>from
>tannins I don't know, I just know it works. While I know you won't 
>believe
>this, my wife's cramps were so bad I felt them, and this mix taken hot 
>helped
>a lot. Please don't tell her Evening Primrose is just for PMS... it's
>eliminated her cramps too, or at least been part of the solution.
>
>We've had great sucess with herbs, proper eating (which most women, 
>especially
>teenaged ones don't do enough of) and massage
>
>> I realize much of this post was very "non-herbal", and I apologize 
>if I
>>  have offended anyone, but I feel that this information is important 
>to many
>>  women...and I have learned just how much it is shrugged off by the 
>medical
>>  community at large.  Although the research is being done (mostly in 
>Sweden,
>>  as I recall), the nurses & physicians we deal with on a daily basis 
>were
>>  never given any instruction in it and, for the most part, have 
>never
>>  educated themselves.  
>
>I personally am not offended by any information. I was floored when I 
>found
>M.D.'s aren't required to know anything about nutrition, and find I'm 
>less
>likely to see one after ours discounted B-6 as being a help in carpel
>tunnel... but he DOES have these nifty muscle relaxants..... Yea... 
>right...
>
>Keeping my soapbox in good repair
>
>Corwyn.
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