Menopause Night Sweats & Hot Flashes

St. John’s wort might cool hot flushes tied to menopause

St. John’s wort is probably best identified as an herbal antidepressant, along with a number of clinical trials signifying that it may help ease meek to normal melancholy signs.

Some investigations have also investigated the herb’s effects on menopausal signs, yet have focused on its influence on mood — and never the so-called vasomotor signs of menopause, which have consist of hot flashes and night sweats.

Among women taking St. John’s wort, the average amount of hot flashes went down from more or less four each day at the start of the survey to fewer than two each day at week 8. In contrast, women in the placebo group were having an mean of 2.6 hot flashes each day by the 8th week.

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

The research included 100 women who were 50 years old, on mean, and had been having average to severe hot flashes no less than one time each day. The women were arbitrarily assigned to take either drops containing St. John’s wort extort or placebo drops three times a day for 56 days.

SOURCE: Menopause, February 2010.

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