Chinese Herb Best Remedy to Reduce Menopause Symptom

According to a latest study published in Menopause, The Journal of The North American Menopause Society, Chinese herbs reduce the symptoms of menopause.

A study from Hong Kong found that women who took a Chinese herbal formula experienced less than half of the menopausal hot flashes or night sweats. Overall, the symptoms they experienced were less.

The herbal formula, known as Er-xian decoction (EXD), is a type of Chinese medicine that helps in relieving menopausal symptoms. Consisting of compounds that are extracted from the roots, stems or leaves of six Chinese herbs that are later processed into granules, it is known to be effective in treating menopausal symptom as it reduces the frequency of hot flashes by 62 percent.

"It's a modest effect, but not a zero effect," Katherine Newton, a researcher who has studied herbal menopause therapies at the Group Health Research Institute in Seattle, said in a press statement.

"The composition of EXD includes herbs for enhancing both kidney yin and kidney yang to treat menopausal symptoms," the researchers were quoted as saying in Reuters.

The study, conducted by professor Yao Tong from the University of Hong Kong and colleagues, was conducted on 101 menopausal women who were given the herbal mix as a tea mixture. The participants belonged to the age group of 40-50. Every participant was asked to drink the formula twice a day continuously for 12 weeks. Half of the participants drank 15 grams of the dose of EXD, while others consumed a mixture of tea, caramel and gardenin that is a herbal compound.

The participants who consumed EXD had an average of 5.8 hot flashes each day and the other group had five hot flashes daily. After 12 weeks, the occurrence of hot flashes in the EXD group dropped to 2.2, and in the other group it was 2.5. The number altered slightly after three months as the EXD group had just 2.2 hot flashes a day and the other group had 2.9 hot flashes a day, reports TOI.