Western herbal medicine consultations for common menstrual problems; practitioner experiences and perceptions of treatment

Fisher, Carole; Adams, Jon; Frawley, Jane; Hickman, Louise; Sibbritt, David

doi:10.1002/ptr.6001

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“…Australian urban people prefer using alternative herbal medicine along with conventional treatments for faster healing ( Fisher et al , 2018 ). Around 48% of the overall population in Australia uses alternative medicine, a vast number of whom were urban and mostly educated women ( MacLennan et al , 1996 ).…”

Section: Urban Ethnopharmacology: Emergence and Present Status Throughout The Globementioning

confidence: 99%

Advancing urban ethnopharmacology: a modern concept of sustainability, conservation and cross-cultural adaptations of medicinal plant lore in the urban environment

Dutta

Anand

Saha

et al. 2021

Conservation Physiology

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The discipline ‘urban ethnopharmacology’ emerged as a collection of traditional knowledge, ancient civilizations, history and folklore being circulated since generations, usage of botanical products, palaeobotany and agronomy. Non-traditional botanical knowledge increases the availability of healthcare and other essential products to the underprivileged masses. Intercultural medicine essentially involves ‘practices in healthcare that bridge indigenous medicine and western medicine, where both are considered as complementary’. A unique aspect of urban ethnopharmacology is its pluricultural character. Plant medicine blossomed due to intercultural interactions and has its roots in major anthropological events of the past. Unani medicine was developed by Khalif Harun Al Rashid and Khalif Al Mansur by translating Greek and Sanskrit works. Similarly, Indo-Aryan migration led to the development of Vedic culture, which product is Ayurveda. Greek medicine reached its summit when it travelled to Egypt. In the past few decades, ethnobotanical field studies proliferated, especially in the developed countries to cope with the increasing demands of population expansion. At the same time, sacred groves continued to be an important method of conservation across several cultures even in the urban aspect. Lack of scientific research, validating the efficiency, messy applications, biopiracy and slower results are the main constrains to limit its acceptability. Access to resources and benefit sharing may be considered as a potential solution. Indigenous communities can copyright their traditional formulations and then can collaborate with companies, who have to provide the original inventors with a fair share of the profits since a significant portion of the health economy is generated by herbal medicine. Search string included the terms ‘Urban’ + ‘Ethnopharmacology’, which was searched in Google Scholar to retrieve the relevant literature. The present review aims to critically analyse the global concept of urban ethnopharmacology with the inherent plurality of the cross-cultural adaptations of medicinal plant use by urban people across the world.

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Section: Urban Ethnopharmacology: Emergence and Present Status Throughout The Globementioning

confidence: 99%

Advancing urban ethnopharmacology: a modern concept of sustainability, conservation and cross-cultural adaptations of medicinal plant lore in the urban environment

Dutta

Anand

Saha

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Conservation Physiology

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“…Seeking out additional treatments are nonetheless desirable given the current failure of conventional therapies to effectively treat CPPD. Currently, conventional health practitioners and academics in the field of gynaecology have urged the need for treatments to be individualised, possibly requiring concurrent use of several treatment approaches . Inherent in WHs’ practice is the blending of medicinal herbs, tailored to address the individual woman's symptoms, much in line with the recommendation for individualising treatment.…”

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“…While many Western herbalists (WHs) prescribe medicinal herbal combinations tailored to women's needs, Vitex agnus‐castus (chaste tree), Paeonia lactiflora (white peony), Angelica sinensis (Dong quai) and Actaea racemosa (black cohosh) are core herbs favoured for treating all four CPPD symptoms. WHs perceive there to be a high level of efficacy for herbal medicine in treating dysmenorrhoea, PMS, heavy and irregular periods, with low levels of adverse effects and a potentially positive cost‐to‐benefit ratio …”

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Is there a role for Western herbal medicine in treating cyclic perimenstrual pain and discomfort?

Fisher

Adams

Frawley

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Aust NZ J Obst Gynaeco

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Conventional treatments for cyclic perimenstrual pain and discomfort, while numerous and diverse, have drawbacks including side effects, interference with women's reproductive function and, importantly, failure to address symptoms. Many women turn to herbal medicine to treat a myriad of menstrual symptoms. Clinical evidence supports the efficacy of Vitex agnus-castus but other medicinal herbs typically used by Western herbalists for treating menstrual symptoms are unsupported by clinical trials. This raises concerns around the efficacy and safety of these herbs. Women's treatment options need to be extended and individualised, where current conventional strategies fail, requiring appropriate clinical trials of potentially useful herbal medicines.

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“…En respuesta, muchas mujeres han optado por utilizar terapias naturales para tratar el SPM [4][5][6] . En particular, las mujeres que experimentaron endometriosis y/o SPM frecuente, periodos irregulares o dismenorrea fueron significativamente más propensas a consumir fitoterapia que las mujeres que no padecían estos problemas menstruales 7 .…”

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El alivio natural: Sauzgatillo (Vitex <i>agnus-castus</i>) para el síndrome premenstrual y la dismenorrea

Sánchez-Prieto,

Losa-Puig,

Domínguez-Osorio

et al. 2023

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El síndrome premenstrual es un trastorno común en mujeres en edad reproductiva y se caracteriza por al menos un síntoma físico, emocional o conductual, que aparece en la fase lútea del ciclo menstrual y se resuelve poco después del inicio de la menstruación. Los tratamientos convencionales para el dolor perimenstrual cíclico tienen inconvenientes que incluyen efectos secundarios, interferencia con la función reproductiva de las mujeres o escasa efectividad en el alivio de los síntomas. Muchas mujeres recurren a terapias naturales para tratar una gran variedad de síntomas menstruales. Esta revisión se centra en una de esas opciones naturales, el Sauzgatillo (Vitex agnus-castus). Se realizó una búsqueda e identificación de artículos publicados hasta mayo de 2022 recopilados por medio de sistemas de búsqueda electrónicos como Google Scholar, Medline, PubMed y Scopus. Las palabras de búsqueda fueron: "Premenstrual syndrome", "dysmenorrhea" AND "Vitex agnus-castus". Los estudios preclínicos señalan un mecanismo de acción en su implicación sobre el sistema serotoninérgico, así como su unión a los receptores de dopamina. Los estudios clínicos demuestran la seguridad y el efecto positivo sobre el síndrome premenstrual y la dismenorrea.

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Western herbal medicine consultations for common menstrual problems; practitioner experiences and perceptions of treatment

Cited by 11 publications

References 38 publications

Advancing urban ethnopharmacology: a modern concept of sustainability, conservation and cross-cultural adaptations of medicinal plant lore in the urban environment

Advancing urban ethnopharmacology: a modern concept of sustainability, conservation and cross-cultural adaptations of medicinal plant lore in the urban environment

Is there a role for Western herbal medicine in treating cyclic perimenstrual pain and discomfort?

El alivio natural: Sauzgatillo (Vitex <i>agnus-castus</i>) para el síndrome premenstrual y la dismenorrea

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