Complementary and Alternative Medications for Women’s Health Issues

Women often seek alternative treatment options such as herbs, dietary supplements, and vitamins and minerals to treat women’s health issues across the lifespan. Women may use complementary and alternative supplements for dysmenorrhea, premenstrual syndrome, infertility, nausea and vomiting during pr...

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Published in:Nutrition in clinical practice 2009-10, Vol.24 (5), p.589-608
Main Authors: Lloyd, Kimberly Braxton, Hornsby, Lori B.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
complementary therapies
Complementary Therapies - methods
Dietary Supplements
dysmenorrhea
Dysmenorrhea - therapy
Female
female infertility
Herbal Medicine - methods
hot flashes
Hot Flashes - therapy
Humans
Infertility, Female - therapy
Menopause
Nursing
Phytotherapy - methods
Plants, Medicinal
Pregnancy
premenstrual syndrome (PMS)
Premenstrual Syndrome - therapy
vitamins
Women's Health
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Summary:Women often seek alternative treatment options such as herbs, dietary supplements, and vitamins and minerals to treat women’s health issues across the lifespan. Women may use complementary and alternative supplements for dysmenorrhea, premenstrual syndrome, infertility, nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, and symptoms of menopause. In general, there is a deficit of well‐designed, randomized, controlled trials to evaluate the efficacy and safety of complementary and alternative medicine for these indications, which makes it difficult to provide evidence‐based recommendations. This review outlines the evidence for efficacy and safety that is currently available for dietary supplement use by women to manage health conditions specific to the female patient.
ISSN:0884-5336
1941-2452
DOI:10.1177/0884533609343001