Red Clover Can Help Hot Flashes

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Red Clover Can Help Hot Flashes

Fri Sep 13,11:52 PM ET

FRIDAY, Sept. 13 (HealthScoutNews) -- A dietary supplement made from red

clover provides relief for women with hot flashes, claims a new study.

Promensil, a standardized red clover supplement, reduces the frequency and

severity of hot flashes, say the research, which appears in the current

issue of The Female Patient.

The study found that 40 milligrams a day of Promensil reduced hot flashes by

48.5 percent, while a placebo offered a 10.5 percent reduction.

The study included 30 healthy, non-vegetarian women who had been

post-menopausal for more than a year. None of them had used hormone

replacement therapy (HRT), soy or other estrogen-active plant products for

at least 16 weeks.

Non-vegetarian women were used in the study to avoid potential biasing.

Vegetarian women eat more soy and legumes, which contain isoflavones that

help control hot flashes.

" This study demonstrates that dietary supplementation with red-clover

derived isoflavones is an effective alternative for symptomatic relief of

vasomotor symptoms in post-menopausal women, reducing both the average daily

frequency and severity of hot flushes, " says study author Dr. Arturo Jeri,

director of the climacteric unit at the Institute of Gynaecology and

Reproduction in Peru.

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