The majority of women experience menopause with annoying symptoms: hot flashes, mood swings or sleep disorders can significantly reduce the quality of life. Homeopathy offers relief with few side effects.
Around the age of 40, the woman's body begins to change hormonally. The fertile period in which a woman can have children gradually ends and passes into the sterile phase, in which egg maturation no longer takes place.
The phase until the menstrual period finally stops, the so-called menopause, takes six to ten years. The concentration of female sex hormones decreases continuously. In particular, less estrogen, progesterone and FSH, the follicle-stimulating hormone that is responsible for egg maturation, are produced. This has multiple effects on the body and psyche.
The "classic" among menopausal symptoms
Women notice the start of menopause most clearly through cycle fluctuations. Sometimes the period between menstrual periods is reduced and the bleeding becomes weaker. Then the distance increases again and there is heavy and prolonged bleeding. Spotting may also occur in between. The hormonal change in menopause is a natural process, but around 70 percent of women in the western industrialized nations find this phase stressful. The unpleasant side effects can vary greatly from woman to woman.
Menopausal women complain particularly often about hot flashes with sweats, which are often accompanied by strong palpitations or rapid heartbeat. Many women suffer from sleep disorders in the form of problems falling asleep and staying asleep during the menopause. Depressive moods, mood swings and irritability are also common. Due to the lack of estrogen, the mucous membranes are less well supplied with blood. This leads to vaginal dryness and can cause itching and burning in the genital area. Urinary tract infections also occur more frequently during menopause.
Many complaints that occur during menopause can be treated gently and without side effects with homeopathic remedies. Low potencies such as D6 and D12, which are available in the pharmacy as homeopathic drops, tablets and globules, are recommended for self-treatment. Treatment with higher potencies from C30, on the other hand, belongs in the hands of experienced, homeopathically trained doctors. If the symptoms are particularly severe or if they do not improve, you should also seek medical advice.
Hot flashes: homeopathy in the menopause
During the menopause, around 60 to 80 percent of all women in this country suffer from hot flashes. These usually announce themselves by lightly pressing the head and then spread over the face and neck to the upper body. The face often turns red and there is a sweating that ends with a chill. Hot flashes during menopause can occur several times a week to several times a day and are perceived as very uncomfortable by the women concerned. The following natural remedies can help:
Lachesis: Supports hot flashes with choking and tightness on the neck. Lachesis is the right remedy, especially if the symptoms are linked to a left-sided migraine.
Sanguinaria canadensis: Sanguinaria canadensis can help if the hot flashes are accompanied by conspicuous reddening of the face and additional right-sided headaches or migraine attacks and rapid heartbeat.
Sleep disorders: homeopathy in the menopause
More than half of all menopausal women complain of problems falling asleep and staying asleep. Menopausal sleep disorders can be treated gently with the following homeopathic remedies:
Aristolochia clematitis: Aristolochia clematitis can be given for restless sleep and awakening in the early morning, after which it is no longer possible to fall asleep for hours. Aristolochia clematitis is a suitable remedy, especially if menstruation is short and weak and there are additional joint complaints, limb and headaches.
Pulsatilla: If the affected person feels intense heat, sweats or even shivers and freezes, ponders a lot, feels unbalanced and therefore cannot sleep, sleep can help Pulsatilla. This is especially true if there is bleeding that is irregular, dark and lumpy, muscle and joint problems occur and the sufferer suffers from severe fatigue.
Homeopathy in the menopause: mood swings
A widespread problem in the menopause is mood swings with alternating cheerful and depressive phases, increased irritability, tearfulness and anxiety. The following homeopathic remedies have proven useful for treating these complaints:
Cimicifuga racemosa: Cimicifuga, the homeopathic remedy from the silver candle, works in a similar way to the sex hormone estrogen. Typical menopausal symptoms that occur due to estrogen deficiency, such as depressive moods, feelings of homesickness and fear, but also hot flashes and sweating can be treated well.
Sepia: The large women's remedy sepia has a strengthening and balancing effect in the menopause, especially with increased irritability, climacteric depression, mental exhaustion and migraines. In addition, sepia also helps with hot flashes and supports weight loss.
Homeopathy in the menopause: weight gain
With the entry into the menopause, many women gain weight considerably. This is partly due to the slow metabolism, but also due to food cravings caused by psychological imbalance and depressive climacteric disorders. These homeopathic active ingredients can be used to support weight loss.
Lycopodium clavatum: The homeopathic remedy from Bärlapp helps against the typical bloated belly that many women develop in the menopause. Because Lycopodium helps regulate digestion and stimulates the metabolism.
Sepia: Sepia has a particularly broad effect as a constitutional agent. So sepia can be used in addition to the balancing effect on the psyche and against hot flashes during menopause, but also to support weight loss.
Calcium carbonicum: When depressive moods in the menopause lead to cravings for sweets and frustrations, Calcium carbonicum can bring the psyche back into balance and thus slow down the cravings.
Complex remedy for menopausal symptoms
Since the menopausal symptoms in many women do not occur singly, but often bundled, it may make sense to use complex remedies. Here several homeopathic active ingredients are combined in one product. In contrast, the use of a single agent should be preferred if a symptom is in the foreground. However, individual remedies and complex remedies are not combined.
Dosage forms in homeopathy
