Herbs for Women

There are many herbs for the ailments of the reproductive apparatus of women. Most of them have been laughed at by Medical Doctors and excoriated by male dominated religious institutions, but women have kept the information alive whether male institutions like it or not.

I am male and do not consider myself an expert on these matters. This short essay is written to inform some few women who do not know that solutions to these problems exist. If only five women learn something from these lines of words, it will please me.

For menses which are scanty or weak or painful or drive women crazy (pre-menstrual syndrome: PMS) there are MANY herbs that are around and about. My favorite (ha!) is Mugwort (Latin:Artemesia vulgaris) an ancient and internationally used herb. When the time has come for things to start happening, make an ordinary cup of tea with the leaves/stems and sip it off and on all day. PMS will often disappear on the first taste but drink the rest of the cup anyway.

After a few months of using the tea, the menses will shift to the full moon and become more or less regular.

Some other herbs which have been used often are: Angelica, Black Cohosh, Rose Geranium, Golden Ragwort, Motherwort, Nettle, Red Raspberry leaves, Rue, Wormwood (Absinthe) to name only a few. There are many others.

For menses which are heavy or full of clots, I suggest Lemon Balm. Just make a cup of ordinary tea and drink two or three cups a day. The menses should normalize in a few months. Some other herbs in use for this condition are Crampbark, Golden Ragwort, Calendula (Marigold), Plantain leaf. Yellow dock, and Yarrow for a few.

For the diseases of the uterus (which often follow the use of birth control pills), there are many herbal solutions which can be easy This will not be discussed here since each case is different. Find yourself a competent herbalist. It could be very risky to try to treat yourself for these problems.

Roe and Wade

The pomposity of males about controlling abortions is laughable! Any woman who does not want to be pregnant can put an end to it before any man is aware of the event.

My own lesson about this came through my (ex-) wife. She was a couple of days late with the onset of her menses and had gone across the street to commiserate with our neighbor woman who was a devout Italian Catholic woman. The neighbor woman gave her a bottle of two pills to take - one now and one later. I looked at the last pill and the paper in the bottle. It said "Cimicifuga" - Latin/Italian for Black Cohosh a wild flower I was familiar with. Neighbor said my wife could get it at any Italian pharmacy in town.

Black Cohosh is an herbal abortive.

My wife didn't ask me if I wanted her to abort. My opinion didn't matter.

My Italian neighbor had learned this from her mother, grandmother. other female friends, aunts and generations "Catholic" women ancestors. The information was kept from generations of murderous Inquisitions. Husband and Preists and Popes were not asked for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years. Men's opinions didn't matter.

The decision to abort belongs to the woman, first and last. Roe., Wade, the US Supreme Court and the Pope are irrelevant.

So here is a recipe for a tea taken from a book I will not name for fear of retribution by "true believers". Make an ordinary tea of Absinthe (Artemsia absinthium, Wormwood) and sip it on and off until menses start. This tea is VERY bitter but it works better if not sweetened. Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris, also called Wormwood) can also be used this way as can Rue (Ruta graveolens). The artemesias have been used since ancient times for this purpose.

NEVER use essential oils. They are dangerously poisonous when used in a bad way. I once tried to treat a woman who had used English Pennyroyal essential oil to have an abortion and had poisoned herself with it. Some days she was fine and some days she was "not all there". Nothing I did had any effect.

Postscript

There is a piece of information I feel a need to pass on but can't think of another place to put it - so here goes.

The method of avoiding pregnancy sometimes called the "rhythm method" as used by Catholic women is a worthwhile method (I think). However it is insufficient for preventing conception. A woman is fertile twice a month not just once. During the Cold War period in our history with the Soviet Union, Russian people discovered that a woman is fertile when the Moon is in the same zodiacal sign as it was when she was born. More simply, if the moon was in Capricorn when she was born, she will be fertile every time the moon enters the sign Capricorn, it happens once every month. Or Leo or Gemini or whatever sign it was in when she was born.

We are tied tightly to the moon and its menses and all that stuff.