Menopause Night Sweats & Hot Flashes

St. John’s wort can chill hot flashes tied to menopause

St. John’s wort is most likely best acknowledged as an herbal antidepressant, with various clinical trials telling that it can help ease mild to normal hopelessness signs.

Some investigations have also investigated the herb’s effects on menopausal signs, however have focused on its bearing on frame of mind — and never the so-called vasomotor signs of menopause, which have involve hot flashes and night sweats.

Among women taking St. John’s wort, the middling amount of hot flashes went down from almost four per day at the beginning of the study to less than 2 per day at week 8. In distinction, women in the placebo set were having an mean of 2.6 hot flashes per day by the eighth week.

The herb also appeared to decrease the extent and difficulty of the women’s hot flashes.

The survey included 100 women who were 50 years old, on mean, and had been having moderate to severe hot flashes no less than one time per day. The women were randomly assigned to get either drops containing St. John’s wort extract or placebo drops 3 times a day for eight weeks.

SOURCE: Menopause, February 2010.

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