| Alternative or complementary herbal | | | | women using alternative therapies |
| therapies used by women for menopausal | | | | against menopausal symptoms declare to |
| symptoms are not attested as helpfull by | | | | their doctor. So it would be more |
| scientific studies. That doesn't mean | | | | effective if both doctor and patients |
| they are useless, but they have no proof | | | | knew exactly what type of substances and |
| that they really do work. | | | | alternative or complementary treatments |
| Doctors used to say that no lifestyle | | | | they are taking and how are those |
| modification or body techniques are safe | | | | influencing their health status. |
| and sure to give results. Those | | | | Complementary treatments are alternative |
| alternative/complementary therapies | | | | treatments that are used in combination |
| pertain to several categories such as: | | | | with traditional ones such as surgery. |
| biologically based therapies which | | | | Nutritional supplements that may relieve |
| include botanicals, fatty acids, | | | | menopausal symptoms are: black cohosh |
| probiotics, diets, vitamins, minerals. | | | | and flaxseed those contain |
| Another category are: mind-body | | | | phytoestrogens and are a natural way to |
| therapies that focus on the mingle of | | | | relieve post menopausal symptoms. |
| emotional, spiritual, mental,social, | | | | Botanicals are medicines taken from |
| behavioral factors affect health. What | | | | plants, first they have been used by |
| about energy therapies which imply: | | | | folk healers now their use has expanded |
| electromagnetic forces, or hypothetical | | | | and they are a component part in the |
| energies, such as life-force energy, | | | | drugs prescribed and form the |
| manipulative and body-based therapies | | | | alternative therapies. Phytoestrogens |
| such as massage, chiropractic and | | | | may work in the body like a weak form of |
| osteopathy. | | | | estrogen and relieve hot flashes and |
| There are other medical systems such as: | | | | night sweats. Isoflavones are also very |
| traditional Chinese medicine and | | | | helpfull they may be find in soy |
| ayurvedic medicine. It is very hard to | | | | products. Those supplements improve the |
| withdraw a pertinent conclusion on how | | | | general state of health and have no side |
| effective really are those techniques | | | | effects on the majority of persons |
| because of the great differentials in | | | | taking them, so they may be taken as |
| outcome measures, biological therapies, | | | | alternative or complementary |
| nonstandardized study populations. Some | | | | medications. |
| studies find benefit in some natural | | | | Some women feel better when taking |
| substances but then are other studies | | | | vitamin E although studies haven't shown |
| that have no concludent result or even | | | | a reduction in hot flashes, is |
| worse their result is contradictory. | | | | recommended to take it during the |
| The placebo effect is really prominent | | | | menopausal period. Although studies |
| in what regards the menopausal symptoms. | | | | haven't shown any results in the post |
| Studies shown that almost half of the | | | | menopausal symptoms may women reported |
| U.S population used alternative medicine | | | | that they have a better state of health |
| and women more often than men seek | | | | after practicing yoga and acupuncture. |
| natural treatments. But not all of the | | | | |