SLC S22 Week 6 - Herbal Medicine for Menstrual Health
Hello everyone! I hope you will be good. Today I am here to participate in Steemit Learning Challenge of @afzalqamar about the Herbal Medicine for Menstrual Health. It is really an interesting and knowledgeable contest. There is a lot to explore. If you want to join then:
Menstrual Support Tea
Prepare a herbal tea targeting menstrual health. Document the ingredients, preparation steps, and benefits of herbs and remedy.
Before making a herbal remedy for the menstural support I want to explain the menstural cycle. Menstural cycle is the part of every woman. After a specific time period the menses occur to each women. But at a specific age this cycle stops. Many women faces problems in the menstural cycle. Sometimes they face irregular cycles which is a great hectic for the women. It makes them feel uncomfortable and the menses becomes unpredictable.
I will create a herbal tea blend for the menstural support by using the following ingredients:
- Black Sesame
- Lodhra
- Beetroot
Here you can see black sesame. These are the black colour seeds. These are widely used in different foods and medicines. I often see these black sesame in the sweet dishes. These are helpful for the bone health, hair health and menstural health. These black sesame will be the part of this wonderful remedy.
Here you can see lodhra. This herb looks like the cinnamon. It is widely used in the different herbal medicines. It will also be the part of the remedy for the menstural health support.
Here you can see beetroot. It is a unique herb which is widely used for different purposes such as in the vegetables, salads as well as for the juice. It will also be the part of the remedy.
All the herbs are at one place and now I will start preparation of the remedy. I have taken black sesame, lodhra and beetroot. Always use minimum quantity of all the herbs for the preparation of the remedies. Because excessive of everything is bad.
Here I have taken water in the container. I will boil all the herbs in this water. I have turned on the furnace and now everything will be boiled in this container of water.
Here you can see first of all I have added black sesame in the container to boil them in the water. The black sesame are floating in the water. I have used a minimum quantity of the black sesame.
Here you can see I have put lodhra in the water. But before adding it in the water I converted it into small pieces so that their benefits can be added in the water easily.
At the end I have added beetroot in the container of water. But before adding beetroot I washed it in the water complete to remove the debris and dirt. Then I cut it into small pieces. The red small pieces were looking very amazing.
I boiled the herbs in the water for about 10 minutes. And you can see that the herbs have been dissolved in the water completely. The black sesame seeds, lodhra and beetroot have become smooth and swollen because of absorbing heat and water.
Here you can see the remedy is completely ready to use and it will really help the women in their menstural support.
Benefits of Herbs:
Black Sesame Seeds
- Wealthy in Supplements: High in sound fats, iron, calcium, magnesium, and vitamin E, which can keep up with hormonal harmony.
- Blood Circulation: Can assist with unwinding and ease torment in the squeezing by further developing the blood stream.
- Upholds Hormonal Health: Lignans, which are phytoestrogens that might assist with managing estrogen levels.
- Pain Relief: The calming properties of the herb lessen women agony.
Lodhra:
- Hormonal Regulation: Conventional Ayurvedic herb used to adjust female hormones and control women cycles.
- Decreases Weighty Bleeding: Known for its astringent properties, it helps in controlling weighty women stream.
- Calming and Antioxidant: Lessens aggravation and oxidative pressure, which will help in everyday regenerative wellbeing.
Beetroot:
- Iron Booster: High in iron and folate, beetroot forestalls paleness and reestablishes lost blood during monthly cycle.
- Detoxification: Helps liver capability in processing hormones and detoxifying.
- Supports Energy: Its regular sugars help in supporting energy levels, assisting battle with exhausting during monthly cycle.
- Comfort to Cramps: Nitrates in the item upgrade blood stream and lessen pressure in the muscles.
Benefits of the Remedy
Eases women Cramps: The mitigating properties of black sesame and beetroot decrease the pressure of the uterine muscles, accordingly easing cramps.
Regulates Hormones: Lodhra directs hormones and keep up with estrogen levels, which will make the period smoother.
Increases Iron Levels and Energy: Beetroot recharges lost iron and gives supported energy to battle women weariness.
Improves Blood Flow: The nitrates in beetroot and supplements in black sesame improve blood course, lightening uneasiness.
Reduces Weighty Bleeding: Lodhra's astringent properties assist with overseeing unnecessary women stream normally.
Supports Conceptive Health: The cancer prevention agents and minerals present in the tea work on by and large conceptive wellbeing and lessen aggravation.
Herbal Benefits Research
Research three herbs that help with menstrual health. Include their uses and benefits.
1. Black Cumin Seeds
Uses:
- Customarily utilized in homemade medication, black cumin seeds have mitigating, torment alleviating, and hormone controlling properties.
- Can be consumed as a tea, injected oil, or ground and added to dinners.
Benefits:
- women Torment: It assists with thymoquinone, which is a strong calming and antispasmodic dynamic component to diminish cramps.
- hormone Guideline: Estrogen and progesterone in it help to keep the equilibrium, advancing customary women cycles.
- Iron Level Improvement: Being wealthy in iron, the concentrate adds to blood creation and will assist with beating exhaustion and frailty connected with monthly cycle.
- Further develops State of mind: Eases temperament swings and peevishness related with PMS by its relieving activity on the sensory system.
2. Flaxseed
Uses:
- Flaxseeds are polished off as ground powder, blended in with water or smoothies, or sprinkled on nourishment for their medical advantages.
Benefits:
- Hormonal Equilibrium: Flaxseeds are rich in lignans, a type of phytoestrogen that helps level out estrogen levels. It diminishes PMS and women inconsistencies. Likewise, omega-3 unsaturated fats help in keeping irritation under control, consequently decreasing torment related with women spasms.
- Normal cycles: Oversees conditions like sporadic periods or PCOS by directing hormonal equilibrium better.
- Further develops Digestion: Wealthy in fiber, flaxseed supports assimilation and cutoff points swelling and stoppage related with women cycle.
3. Fennel
Uses:
- Fennel seeds are taken as tea, added to food, or bit crude after feasts for their helpful activity.
Benefits:
- Eases Cramps: It contains anethole, a characteristic antispasmodic compound that loosens up the uterine muscles and decreases women torment.
- Decreases Weighty Dying: Helps in managing women stream and diminishing unnecessary dying.
- Facilitates PMS Side effects: Known to lessen mind-set swings, crabbiness, and exhaustion by adjusting hormones.
- Further develops Processing: Assuages swelling, queasiness, and other stomach related issues ordinarily connected with monthly cycle.
- Advances Hormonal Wellbeing: For the most part goes about as a phytoestrogen that aides in keeping up with the equilibrium of estrogen, thus working on regenerative wellbeing.
Bkack Cumin Seeds: Ease torment, balance hormones, and work on iron levels.
Flaxseed: Controls hormonal equilibrium, decreases spasms, and helps in keeping up with standard cycles.
Fennel: Facilitates cramps, weighty dying, and absorption inconveniences, while it further develops temperament.
Integrating these herbs into everyday schedules can uphold women wellbeing comprehensively.
Herbal Remedy for PMS
Create a remedy to alleviate PMS (pre-menstrual syndrome) symptoms. Use at least 3 herbs. Write the process, recipe and benefits of herbs and remedy.
PMS stands for pre menstural syndrome. This syndrome causes to ignites the menses before the completion of the menstural cycle. Generally each menstural cycle consists of 4 weeks. But the arrival of menses before this period is because of the pre menstural syndrome. It may have several reasons from hormonal change to stress.
I will create a herbal remedy for the preparation menstural syndrome by using the following ingredients:
- Cinnamon
- Kachur
- Borage
Here you can see cinnamon. This herb is the part of every kitchen because of it's wide use. This herb is also widely used in the herbal medicines. It has several benefits and support of the pre menstural syndrome is one of them. It will be the part of this remedy.
Here you can see Kachur. This herb resembles with the turmeric. Actually it belongs to the same family as turmeric. It is useful for the support of pre menstural syndrome. It will also be the part of this remedy for the pre menstural support.
Here you can see borage. This herb is useful for the different diseases and it is the herbal cure for them. This distinctive herb will also be the part of this remedy.
All the herbs are at one place and now I will start preparation of the remedy. I have taken cinnamon, lodhra and beetroot. Always use minimum quantity of all the herbs for the preparation of the remedies. Because excess of everything is bad.
Here I have taken water in the container. I will boil all the herbs in this water. I have turned on the furnace and now everything will be boiled in this container of water.
Here you can see at first I have added cinnamon in the water. Before adding cinnamon in the water I have broken the cinnamon into small pieces.
Here I have added Kachur in the water. The kachur is big in size and I have broken it into small pieces to get their benefits and advantages.
At the end I have added borage in the water right after the other ingredients. Borage is also bigger in size and I broken it into small pieces to get their complete extracts and benefits.
I boiled the herbs in the water for about 10 minutes. And you can see that the herbs have been dissolved in the water completely. The cinnamon, kachur and borage have become soft, smooth and swollen because of absorbing heat and water.
Here you can see the remedy is completely ready to use and it will really help the women in the cure of pre menstural syndrome.
Benefits of the Herbs
1. Cinnamon:
- Controls Blood Sugar: Balances out glucose levels, which can lessen state of mind swings and peevishness during PMS.
- Against inflammatory: Cinnamon has strong calming properties that can diminish torment, squeezes, and swelling related with PMS.
- Hormonal Balance: Its warming properties support dissemination and may assist with adjusting hormones during the monthly cycle.
- Assuages Cramps: Helps ease uterine compressions, subsequently giving alleviation from women issues.
2. Kachur:
- Pain relieving Effects: Kachur is a wild turmeric that has zedoaral as dynamic guideline, which assists with easing women torment and spasms by making pain relieving impacts.
- Mitigating and Antioxidant: This aides in diminishing irritation and oxidative pressure that upholds hormonal equilibrium in the body.
- Expands Blood Flow: Widens veins to upgrade how much blood circling all through the body; may assist with decreasing side effects of bulging and uneasiness.
- Tweaks women Bleeding: Kachur has been utilized for a really long time to standardize monthly cycles and advance a sound conceptive framework.
3. Borage:
- Quiets State of mind Fluctuations: Borage is high in the omega-6 unsaturated fat GLA, a fundamental supplement that levels out temperament swings and aggravation during PMS.
- Against Inflammatory: It is outfitted with exceptionally successful calming factors that can lessen torment and enlarging, normal indications of PMS.
- Hormonal Support: Borage helps in the amalgamation of prostaglandins, a movement known for its remedial advantages on women spasms and decreasing enlarging.
- Mental Effects: Helps quiet nervousness and strain, making it more straightforward to deal with the profound parts of PMS.
Benefits of the Remedy:
women issue alleviation: The mitigating and muscle-loosening up properties of cinnamon and Kachur decrease agonizing uterine issues and inconvenience.
Balances Hormones: Cinnamon and borage balance out hormone levels, which helps in reducing side effects of PMS, for example, state of mind swings and peevishness.
Reduces Bulging and Inflammation: Kachur and borage diminish irritation, that will assist with making the side effects, for example, swelling to as needs be decrease.
Enhances Mood: Borage has GLA rich substance accordingly showing support for close to home strength, in this way minimalizing uneasiness and crabbiness during PMS.
Induces Unwinding and Solace: The quieting impacts of cinnamon and borage help to alleviate the sensory system, advancing unwinding and diminishing pressure during PMS.
This homemade cure gives a comprehensive way to deal with lightening PMS side effects by joining herbs that help hormonal equilibrium, diminish agony, and upgrade profound prosperity. Drinking this tea consistently during the pre-women stage can give help from normal PMS distresses.