Patent ID: 7101342

Claim:
In the method of treating a human female menopausal condition, the steps that include: a) determining need for increasing estrogen level in the blood, from a lower level associated with reduced ovarian estrogen production, b) said determining including measuring vaginal moisture or urethral fluid pH level, at repeated time intervals over a series of days, c) said determining including providing an elongated probe having an enlarged handle at one end and an enlarged, peripherally generally circular test region at the opposite end of the probe, and a moisture acidity indicator substantially centrally exposed to the exterior, within said test region and at one side of the probe, the indicator characterized as having characteristic coloring that corresponds to moisture acidity, d) there being an elongated stem between said test region and said handle, said stem having flat opposite sides and elongated opposite edges of constant thickness diverging toward the substantially circular outer periphery of said test region, said indicator having a substantially circular outer periphery substantially uniformly spaced inwardly of said test region outer periphery whereby the indicator outer periphery is everywhere substantially concentric to the test region substantially circular outer periphery.