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Black cohosh cools hot flashes and
other symptoms of menopause
Black cohosh contains numerous chemical constituents, among them isoflavones like formononetin, which mimics hormonal activity. This makes it useful for hot flashes, vaginal dryness, and even the depression sometimes associated with menopause.
Though it is known primarily as a woman's herb, it is also acts as a nervine, giving relief to headaches, pain and muscle spasms. These pain relieving properties, coupled with it's anti-inflammatory action make the herb useful against the pain of arthritis.
Blue Cohosh botanical drawing
Though black and blue cohosh are unrelated, they are often used together and have a synergistic, not interchangeable, relationship...While blue cohosh is primarily associated with blood flow to the pelvic area, black cohosh maintains it's effects through it's estrogen-like action. Black cohosh has a special affinity with menopausal women and is used in formulas to balance and regulate hormonal production during menopause. 17
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| Some people report an upset stomach or other gastric complaints. Prolonged use (longer than 6 months) could cause side effects. Not for use while pregnant or nursing. |
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 Remedies using : Black Cohosh
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Black Cohosh for :Artritis pain, Antitussives - cough suppressants |
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Black Cohosh , though more famous for it's use today as a woman's botanical, has some additional uses according to older herbalists. According to M. Grieve, "In the paroxysm of consumption, it gives relief by allaying the cough, reducing the rapidity of the pulse and inducing perspiration. In whooping-cough, it proves very effective." Add the tincture to your cough remedy, or drink black cohosh tea to quiet a nighttime cough. Black cohosh also has a pain relieving and anti-inflammatory action that makes it useful for arthritis. Maud Grieve, Modern Herbal Vol 1 (1931) |
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Black cohosh for :Estrogen and progesterone |
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Black cohosh balances hormone levels in both men and women. Black cohosh contains at least three classes of compounds that act to regulate hormone use, first binding to receptor sites to reduce estrogen when levels are high, then formation of luteinizing hormone (LH), which stimulates a surge of estrogen production in the first fourteen days of the menstrual cycle. This stimulates estrogen production when estrogen levels are low. The dual action of the herb allows it to stabilize the body's estrogen usage.
One of the chemical constituents of black cohosh, ferulic acid, increases the motility and viability of sperm cells by protecting their cell walls from oxidation by compounds released from environmental toxins, helping in cases of infertility. Phyllis A. Balch, Prescription for Herbal Healing (2002) |
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Black Cohosh for :PMS, stress |
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Black Cohosh helps to relieve the stress and nervous tension that accompany a woman's menses. Black cohosh offsets a decline in estrogen by providing powerful plant compounds called phytoestrogens that mimic the hormone's effects. These phytoestrogens bind to hormone receptors in the uterus, breast, and other parts of the body. As a result, black cohosh is reported to lessen hot flashes, vaginal dryness, headaches, dizziness, depressed mood, and other hormone-related symptoms in menopause and PMS. |
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Black Cohosh for :Female Tonic |
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In all the above uses except mayhap those concerning the lungs, we have proven its application trustworthy. Its usefulness in phthisis when given in proper dosage is simply to palliate the cough through its action upon the nerve centres. It will be found in most cases to act with far more constant success in females than in males, as its action upon the female economy is marked and distinctive. Charles F. Millspaugh, American Medicinal Plants (0000) |
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Black, Blue cohosh for :Menopause, hormonal production |
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Though black and blue cohosh are unrelated, they are often used together and have a synergistic, not interchangeable, relationship...While blue cohosh is primarily associated with blood flow to the pelvic area, black cohosh maintains it's effects through it's estrogen-like action. Black cohosh has a special affinity with menopausal women and is used in formulas to balance and regulate hormonal production during menopause.
Rosemary Gladstar, Herbal Healing for Women (1993) |
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(Millspaugh, Charles F.,[11])
This indigenous plant is comparatively common over the eastern half of the United States and in Canada, growing in rich, open woods, and along the edges of fields, but especially noticeable on newly cleared hill-sides. When woods in its favorite localities are at all dense, the plant will be found only in the borders. This tall, graceful, and showy perennial grows to a height ot n 3 to 8 feet. Rootstock thick, blackish, successively knotted and fringe-ringed, tish-yellow internally, with a ring of cuneiform wood-bundles pointing inward; rootlets long, simple, and uniform, a section under a lens shows the cuneiform-idles arranged like a cross.. Sepals 4-5, petal-like, scaphoid, early deciduous. tals (Staminodia) 1-8, very small, long clawed, and 2-horned or forked ; apices therose. Stamens numerous; filaments slender, club-shaped, creamy-white. (Millspaugh, Charles F.,38[11-2])
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 During the mid-1800s, physicians prescribed black cohosh for arthritis, insomnia, menstrual cramps, and symptoms of influenza. Black cohosh was a favorite remedy among all tribes of the aborigines, (American Indians) being largely used by them in rheumatism, disorders of menstruation, and slow parturition. It was also used as a remedy against the bites of venomous snakes, with what success history does ,not relate, but we can easily judge. (Millspaugh, Charles F.,38[11-2]) |
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Medicinal Healing Herbs : Properties and Uses
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Common Misspellings: COVASH ,black cobash herbs, kohash
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