Home Remedies for Menopause
Hot flashes, night sweats, dry skin, heart palpitations, insomnia, headaches, moodiness….the list of symptoms of menopause is long and varied. Most women looking for home remedies for menopause, however, focus on a few of the most troubling symptoms, including hot flashes and night sweats. There are solutions that can reduce the discomfort and keep you from melting, including some simple tricks you can put into practice on a daily basis.
Keep Your Home Menopause Friendly
Turn down the heat in the winter and crank up the air in the summer if you’re going through menopause so that you aren’t as likely to feel overwhelming hot flashes. During a hot flash, your internal body temperature can go up us much as eight degrees for up to three minutes! If your house is too warm, the recovery from a hot flash can take much longer, so keep things cool on the outside so that your body can recover on the inside.
Avoid caffeine and stress as much as possible; these two culprits not only increase hot flashes and night sweats, they increase the irritability and moodiness of menopause. Speaking of stress, some of the best home remedies for menopause symptoms are meditation and a relaxing, soothing massage. Both of these lower the heart rate and ease muscles so that heart palpitations and hot flashes are less likely.
Stock your refrigerator with lots of foods that have natural estrogen, such as alfalfa sprouts, soy, garlic, flaxseeds, olive oil, oats and papaya. Eating these foods will help balance the estrogen levels in your body, resulting in fewer fluctuations.
Easy Home Remedies for Menopause Symptoms
Taking care of your overall health will reduce menopause symptoms quite a bit. This includes supplementing your diet with certain vitamins and minerals that your body losses during this time. Taking vitamin E every day will help diminish hot flashes and night sweats. Taking vitamin D and calcium will also reduce symptoms and help you get to sleep easier while protecting your bones.
Your kitchen cupboard and local herbal shop also contain treatments for your symptoms that are easy to make. For instance, taking 800 mg of evening primrose oil three times daily with lots of water will reduce hot flashes and keep night sweats at bay. Two ounces of beet juice three or four times a day will also reduce your symptoms.
If you enjoy sipping herbal teas, consider switching to black cohosh, sarsaparilla or licorice tea. Drinking a cup of any of these herbal teas twice a day is a good home remedy for menopause symptoms. They are also soothing to your nerves, which helps you to cope more easily with the unpleasant hot flashes, insomnia and other symptoms of menopause. If you aren’t’ a fan of licorice, visit a health food store and look for powdered licorice in capsules or take one teaspoon of the powder each day followed by a full glass of water. If insomnia is a frequent problem, drink your herbal tea with some warm milk added to help you fall asleep quicker.
One teaspoon of carrot seeds soaked in one cup of milk releases powerful substances that aid in controlling fluctuating hormone levels. After soaking the seeds at least ten minutes, drink the entire cup of milk, preferably in the morning.
If you visit an herbalist or holistic health store, look for Indian Spikenard. Taking just two grams of this every day is one of the best home remedies for menopause symptoms available.