What is Menopause?
By the time a woman reaches the age of 50 to 55, her menstrual cycle comes to an end. This stage is called menopause. When this happens, the woman’s ability to bear children is lost. A new phase of life begins, with which comes a lot of emotional and physical changes. There is no exact time of menopause to set in and it depends on climate, lifestyle, diet, stress, anxiety levels and medication. There is reduced production of hormones by the ovaries. Supply of the hormone estrogen falls when menopause approaches, and gradually becomes stabilized.
Changes that accompany menopause
With females in good physical shape, there is more often than not little or no trouble. The alteration advances gradually, the menses become less copious and less frequent, until they cease altogether. However, in some women this transition phase brings with it a lot of mental and physical problems. The first symptoms of menopause are hot flushes and profuse sweating in the night.
These symptoms may persist for months or even years, before menopause actually sets in. Intercourse becomes painful due to dryness of the vagina. Headache, lack of sleep, exhaustion and melancholy are the other signs. There might be a predilection towards hemorrhage. If the courses stop all of a sudden, there possibly will be lightheadedness, anxiety, disturbances in urine secretion and discharges, weakness, soreness in the back or the lower parts of the abdomen. There might also be violent itching on the external surfaces of the body. Some women nurture the wrong notion that they lose their power of enjoying sex in the absence of menses. They feel guilty, and suffer from reduced sense of self-worth, which lead to a number of psychological disorders.
Lifestyle changes needed to adapt to menopause
Menopause is not a disease; it is just a normal process of life. To deal with the disturbances that this change may bring with it, a change in the mode of living towards a healthful direction is necessary.
– Physical activity and regular exercise becomes imperative.
– The lady who has reached menopause need to pay increased attention to her health and wellbeing, and stop worrying unnecessarily about other family members, as women are so apt to do.
– She should take in plenty of fresh vegetables and fruits, and other fibrous food.
– A light nourishing diet needs to b followed.
– The family members of the lady need to keep her surrounded by a cheerful environment.
Homeopathic Treatment of symptoms associated with menopause
The various troubles merged with menopause are effectively eradicated by homeopathic medicines.
Lachesis mutus 200 is necessary to reduce the general symptoms of menopause. One dose every fifteen days is usually sufficient. Two doses for a month will be adequate if one suffers from hot flushes, night sweats, heavy bleeding, cramps in the uterus and burning sensation in the head and if the symptoms are aggravated after waking.
Sepia officinalis 200 is to be taken twice in one month if along with hot flushes and night sweats, there is pain in the vagina at the time of sexual intercourse, and the lafy gets exhausted after doing little work.
Pulsatilla nigricans is possibly more commonly required than any other remedy, more than ever when the cessation of the menses brings with it a weepingtendency, mood swings, a feeling of being faint, headache, a sense of impatience and agitation, urinary derangement, discomfort, heat flushes and irritations of the skin, and decreased thirst.
A dose should be administered at night and another in the morning, until symptoms are relieved. If the above mentioned symptoms are not alleviated by the use of Pulsatilla, Lachesis is to be administered night and morning.
