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Chinese herbs more effective for menstrual pain than drugs

Posted: Oct 18th 2007 1:39PM by Brian White
Filed under: Food and Nutrition, Vitamins and Supplements

Chinese herbs have been found more effective that standard drugs when it comes to the pain related with monthly menstruation, according to a new piece of research from Australia.

In fact, Chinese herbs may be more effective than even acupuncture or heat compression, as the study involving 3,500 women showed.

The end result included the researchers stating that Chinese herbs had "overall superiority" compared to other treatments, which included placebos (no treatment), NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs), OCPs (oral contraceptive pill), acupuncture and heat compression.

I know many people who are huge fans of Chinese herbs (search for TCM on Wikipedia) for everything from colds to canker sores. Perhaps menstrual pain can be added to that list now. What do you think?

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