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Saffron for the Treatment of PMS
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DESCRIPTION: The spice saffron appears to improve both the emotional and physical symptoms of premenstrual syndrome. Remember saffron from my videos Saffron for the Treatment of Alzheimer's (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/saffron-for-the-treatment-of-alzheimers/) and Saffron Versus Aricept (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/saffron-versus-aricept/)? See my blog Natural Alzheimer's Treatment (http://nutritionfacts.org/2011/09/06/natural-alzheimers-treatment/) for some context and my post on other natural remedies: Amla: Indian Gooseberries vs. Cancer, Diabetes, and Cholesterol (http://nutritionfacts.org/2012/01/17/amla-indian-gooseberries-versus-cancer-diabetes-and-cholesterol/). I have another five-dozen or so videos on women's health (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/womens-health/), one of more than a thousand topics I cover (http://nutritionfacts.org/topics/). This is the first of a 3-part video series on the latest on this plant powerful spice (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/power-plants/). Tomorrow's NutritionFacts.org video-of-the-day, Wake Up and Smell the Saffron (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/wake-up-and-smell-the-saffron/), is even more unbelievable than today's. I wrap up with a head-to-head comparison in Saffron vs. Prozac (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/saffron-vs-prozac/).
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“Saffron for the Treatment of PMS” PMS is “among the most common
health problems reported by women,” affecting approximately one in three, and there’s not much
modern medicine has to offer. Ancient traditional medicine,
though, in Asia and Persia, used a spice called saffron
to treat menstrual disorders. But, what did they know? And, that was 3,500 years ago— in fact, the earliest recorded
use of any medicinal plant. Didn’t they know, though,
that you can’t really know anything unless it’s put through a double-blind,
randomized, placebo-controlled trial? Well, it took 3,500 years,
but we finally have it. Women experiencing PMS
for at least six months were randomly assigned
to a capsule of saffron, versus a capsule of nothing,
and lo and behold, “saffron was found to be effective in relieving
symptoms of PMS.” Check it out. Reported PMS symptoms
significantly dropped even within the first cycle,
and continued to improve. This included changes in “mood
(anxiety, irritability, depression, nervous tension,
mood swings and [feelings of being] out of control),
behaviour (poor coordination, insomnia, confusion,
headache, crying and fatigue), pain (aches, cramps and tenderness) and [other] physical [symptoms
including]… craving[s] and swelling)…” All thanks to a little spice,
from the saffron crocus.
#Saffron #Treatment #PMS
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I need to give this a try!
Ottimo!
Awesome new opening! 🙂
that's not the way supplements work. they are extracted. A pill of saffron would give you a LOT more saffron then eating it. The resveratrol that i take, for me to drink the red wine equivalent, i would have to drink like 200 glasses of wine a day.
saffron pills at vitacostDOTcom are 20$
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