Women Health Awareness

 

Teenage is a crucial phase of life as we all go through many psychological, physical and reproductive changes.

Mensuration is one of those most crucial changes in a woman’s body. 

It is a biological phenomenon that occur in girls during adolescences or teenage. It is the cyclical discharging of blood, secretions, and tissue scrap from the female internal reproductive organ that recurs in non-pregnant breeding-age primate females at just about monthly intervals which is taken into account to represent a readjustment of the uterus to the non-pregnant state following proliferative changes concomitant the preceding ovulation.

The beginning of mensuration is called menarche, 70% girls go through menarche between 11 to 14 years and the stoppage of this phenomenon is called menopause and it happens post 45 age.

Mensuration Blood as medicines : Blood during female lunar cycle or menstruation blood has been used in medicines from ages . In Chinese Daoist alchemy, the blood of virgin woman was used to make a substance to prolongue an individual's life, called red lead.

While there are many taboos and mental and social restriction on a bleeding woman. The woman itself go through several cramps in her own body.

We have some herbs to sooth the menstrual cramps.

1. Zingiber officinale

Zingiber officinale is called Ginger.

It is rich in antioxidant and anti- inflammatory affects and it also act as ibuprofen. It sooth period cramps by decreasing the production of prostaglandins, which contrast the uterus by constricting blood vessels.

There are three types of prostaglandins, out of these three one causes the pain while other two sooth and relax our body from pain. Ginger helps in soothing the pain caused by prostaglandins.

Ginger also helps during nausea and helps with lower back pain during lunar period.

2. Cinnamomum verum 

It is commonly known as Cinnamon and it is obtained from inner bark of many trees. It is commonly used as spice but it is also used as aromatic content and flavoring additive.

During and prior to Ancient Egypt period it was used as best gift fit for kings

It has characteristically property to control period inflammation and to maintain the hormonal balance in your body.

 3. Matricaria chamomilla

It is commonly known as Chamomilla. Chamomile Tea is made from dry flowers of chamomile and it is widely used for many health purposes. It helps in diabetes, reducing inflammation and even it has anti-cancer property as well.

It also helps to sooth the menstrual pain and reduce anxiety during your lunar cycle.

Apart from curing and reducing menstrual pain it also reduce or prevent Osteoporosis which is a condition of losing bone density and it is most common in woman after menopause due to imbalance in estrogen.

 4. Foeniculum vulgare

It is commonly known as Fennel.

Fennel plant and it’s seed contains many potent compounds, it’s essential oils shows more than 87 volatile compounds which are rich in antioxidant and anti- inflammatory properties and it’s seed contains more than 24 compounds.

Fennel also adds flavors in our food and maintain appetite as well. It is rich in fiber which helps to reduce the chances of heart attack by keeping your heart healthy.

It’s high inflammatory property helps to sooth the menstrual pain 

A cross-sectional study was administrated in urban slum area. Information were collected using pre-tested proforma throughout the period of 1st June to 31th August 2017. Among the a hundred adolescent girls, 72% were between fifteen and nineteen years. A most of 47% were having high-school education. Concerning 47% mothers were illiterate; 27% girls had menarche at fourteen years and 82% had regular cycles. About 76% had no knowledge of catamenia before menarche. The source of knowledge was mother in 84% cases. Solely 16% girls commented that pain initiated in uterus. Concerning only 60% girls used sanitary pads and also the rest used fabric pieces. About 22% used water and no soap was available for hand washing.

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