Saturday, January 29, 2011

Reducing the effects of dysmenorrhea with medicinal plants


Dysmenorrhea is feeling pain when menstruating women experience. The pain was mild and vague, but some are severe, and even some women to pass out because it does not keep him strong. Half of women affected by menstrual pain.

Dysmenorrhea can be caused by a disease process (eg pelvic inflammatory), endometriosis, tumors or abnormal location of the uterus, vagina hymen or no holes, and excessive stress or anxiety. However, the most frequent cause, allegedly because of hormonal imbalance and had no relation to the reproductive organs.

How treatment is usually done to help reduce menstrual pain that interfere with, among other drugs, relaxation, hypnotherapy, and various treatment alternatives. Some medicinal plants that can reduce pain dimenore is temu hitam (Curcuma aeruginosa Roxb), kencur (Kaempferia galanga L.), turmeric (Curcuma domestica val), and tamarind (Tamarindus indica).

Temu hitam rhizome contain essential oils, tannins, kurkumol, curcumenol, isokurkumenol, kurzerenon, kurdion, kurkumalakton, germakron, a, ß, g-elemene, linderazulene, curcumin, demethyoxykurkumin, bisdemethyoxykurkumin. Rhizome of this plant can purify the blood after childbirth or after menstruation.

Kencur rhizomes contain starch, minerals, and essential oil of cineol, methyl acid and penta kanil independence, cinnamic acid, ethyl aster, sinamic acid, borneol, kamphene, paraeumarin, anisic acid, alkaloids, and gums. This plant is efficacious launch period.

Turmeric contains medicinal compounds, called curcuminoids consisting of curcumin, desmetoksicumin and bisdesmetoksicumin and useful substances other. Turmeric can treat menstrual and stomach pains are not fluent during menstruation.

Tamarind fruit contains chemical compounds such as Appel acid, citric acid, sour grapes, tartaric acid, succinic acid, pectin and sugar invert. The fruit of this plant to treat stomach pains when menstruating.

How to make a potion is as follows:
25 gram of temu hitam, 20 grams kencur, 20 grams of turmeric, tamarind 2 segment boiled with 600 cc of water until the remaining 200 cc, then filtered and drunk while warm.