Menstrual Pain: What to Do?
Brief overview Treatment: Exercise, heat, medicinal plants (lady’s mantle, yarrow, monk’s pepper, St. John’s wort), pain and antispasmodic medications, treatment of underlying condition Prevention: hormonal contraceptives, endurance sports, balanced diet. Causes: Contractions of the uterine muscles; primary period pain not due to disease, secondary period pain due to an underlying disease such as endometriosis When … Menstrual Pain: What to Do?
