One or two studies have also investigated the herb’s special effects on menopausal symptoms, yet have focused on its influence on frame of mind — and not the so-called vasomotor symptoms of menopause, which involve hot flashes and night sweats.

Amongst women taking St. John’s wort, the average quantity of hot flashes went down from more or less four each day at the start of the study to fewer than 2 each day at week 8. In contrast, women in the panacea group were having an median of 2.6 hot flashes each day by the 8th week.

The herb also appeared to reduce the extent and severity of the women’s hot flashes.

The review incorporated 100 women who were 50 years old, on median, and had been having modest to brutal hot flashes at least one time each day. The women were haphazardly assigned to accept either drops containing St. John’s wort extort or panacea drops three times a day for eight weeks.

SOURCE: Menopause, February 2010.

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