Menopause Night Sweats & Hot Flashes

St. John’s wort could cool hot flashes coupled to menopause

St. John’s wort is in all probability best recognized as an herbal antidepressant, along with various clinical trials suggesting that it may help lessen mild to fair depression symptoms.

One or two investigations have as well investigated the herb’s special effects on menopausal symptoms, however have focused on its effect on disposition — and never the so-called vasomotor symptoms of menopause, which include hot flashes and night sweats.

Amongst women taking St. John’s wort, the middling number of hot flashes went down from about four each day at the start of the study to less than 2 each day at week eight. In difference, women in the placebo set were having an median of 2.6 hot flashes each day by the 8th week.

The herb as well appeared to decrease the period and difficulty of the women’s hot flashes.

The survey included 100 women who were 50 years old, on median, and had been having average to brutal hot flashes at least one time each day. The women were haphazardly assigned to take either drops containing St. John’s wort extract or placebo drops 3 times each day for 56 days.

SOURCE: Menopause, February 2010.

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