There are many herbs that can support female hormonal balance. For example, shatavari is an adaptogenic herb, which means it can help your body to cope with physical and emotional stress, and it helps to regulate hormonal imbalances, which can be useful during the menopause. Among a host of other benefits, calendula is also hormone balancing – it relieves menopausal symptoms, reduces breast congestion with tenderness and helps regulate menstruation and relieve menstrual cramps. Rose also helps relieve uterine congestion causing pain, heavy and irregular periods, eases menstrual cramps and pre-menstrual syndrome, alleviates mood swings, and is cooling for menopausal hot flushes and night sweats. Liquorice has mild oestrogenic properties, which makes it hormone balancing and useful for menstrual and menopausal problems, as well as for polycistic ovary syndrome. As a reproductive tonic and aphrodisiac, it is good for sexual debility and low libido.
All three of these herbs and more are included in our Female Vitality Tea . We also carry a Female Vitality Tincture, which contains the same herbs but in a tincture – a concentrated herbal extract obtained by macerating herbs into a mixture of alcohol and water.