Uterine fibroids are solid muscle tissue growths in the uterus.
They are also called fibroid tumors, myomas, or leiomyomas.
Fibroids occur so frequently (in up to half of all women
over forty) that they could be considered a normal irregularity.
The occasional fibroid can become enormous (medical literature
reports one that was 100 pounds!), but the majority (80%) remain as small as a
walnut.
Fibroids are the number one reason American women have hysterectomies.
The causes of uterine fibroids are unknown, but estrogens, especially estradiol, promote their growth.
After menopause fibroids disappear.
But because estrogen levels can rise during the early menopausal
years, previously asymptomatic fibroids may grow in the years just before the
cessation of menses, resulting in symptoms such as feeling of heaviness in the
belly, low back pain, pain with vaginal penetration, urinary frequency or
incontinence, bowel difficulties, or severe menstrual pain and flooding.
Women of color are three to nine times more likely to have fibroids than white women, and theirs will grow more quickly.
Fibroid tumors are not cancer, not malignant.
Tumor means a swelling or a growth, not a malignancy, not cancer.
Less than 0.1% of all uterine fibroids are malignant.
Small fibroids often disappear spontaneously.
Larger fibroids are more difficult to resolve, but not impossible
to control with natural measures.
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The "root chakra" (lowermost energy center in the body, which includes the uterus) said to store unexpressed anger.
It is believed that any unwanted growths in these organs can be
countered by allowing the anger to safely discharge.
One woman's fibroids (and menstrual cramps) disappeared within
three months of beginning a vigorous exercise program.
Exercise helps insure regular ovulation, and irregular ovulation
seems to worsen fibroids.
Consuming three or more servings of whole grains or beans daily
not only reduces the size of fibroids but offers protection from breast and
endometrial cancers as well.
Red clover flowers (Trifolium pratense), are one of my favorite
infusions, but use during the menopausal years may increase difficulty with
fibroids.
Strengthening the liver with herbs such as dandelion, milk thistle
seed, or yellow dock root helps it metabolize estrogen out of the body, thus
reducing fibroids.
Vitex or chasteberry tincture, 25-30 drops two to four times
daily, often shrinks small fibroids within two months.
But results come from long-term use - up to two years.
Ask someone to burn moxa over the area of the fibroid while you
envision the heat releasing the treasures in your uterus.
What is locked up in this fibroid? What can you give birth to?
Acupuncture treatments can shrink fibroids.
Poke root (Phytolacca americana), used internally as a tincture
(1-10 drops per day; start small) and externally as a belly rub oil, has gained
a reputation as a profound helper in relieving pain and distresses from
fibroids.
CAUTION: Poke is considered poisonous; it is not often found for
sale. This is one remedy you may have to make yourself to try.
Warm castor oil packs on the belly, or ginger compresses (soak a
towel in hot ginger water) relieve pain and help shrink the fibroids.
The use of progesterone to treat women with uterine fibroids is
hotly debated. One side holds that fibroids are created by lack of progesterone.
The other side makes, to my mind, the better case: that
progesterone increases fibroids.
Evidence? Fibroids increase in size during pregnancy, when
progesterone production is high, and atrophy after menopause, when progesterone
levels decrease.
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Whichever side is right, eating more whole grains and beans
usually changes estrogen/progesterone ratio for the better and shrinks fibroids.
Reduce fibroids by reducing your exposure to estrogen: avoid birth
control pills, ERT/HRT, estrogen-mimicing residues from herbicides and
pesticides used on food crops (eat organically-raised products).
Tampons that are bleached with chlorine may mimic the bad
effects of estrogen, too.
Lupron (leuprolide acetate), a drug which induces "artificial
menopause" by shutting down the body's production of estradiol causes a
significant decrease in fibroid size within 8-12 weeks.
Fibroids do regrow to about 90 percent of their original
size when the drug is withdrawn however.
Major advances have been made in surgical treatments for women
with fibroids. There are many options now besides hysterectomy (removal of the
uterus), including hysteroscopic resection, uterine embolization, myomectomy,
and suprecervical hysterectomy.
Since these are fairly new procedures, take the time to find a
surgeon who is skilled in the procedure.
Hysterectomy can be a life-saving procedure, but by the age of
sixty, more than one-third of American women will have given up their wombs to
the surgeons.
The presence of non-symptomatic fibroids is never sufficient
reason, to my mind, for a hysterectomy.
Of my students and apprentices who have had hysterectomies because
of fibroids, those who "did their homework" - that is, helped
themselves before and after their surgery with all the tools at their disposal
- seemed to fare much better than those who did not.
With very few exceptions, no woman is healthier without her
ovaries. So, even if you elect a hysterectomy, keep your ovaries.
These Wise Woman ways, and lots more, are in my book New
Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way, available from
http://www.ashtreepublishing.com.
They are arranged in order of risk: the safest first, the most
dangerous last.
If you have a uterine fibroid and it is a problem, begin with the
mildest remedies first.
Set a time limit for your use of any remedy, but, except in an emergency, don't go on to stronger remedies until you are sure the safer ones aren't effective for you.
Set a time limit for your use of any remedy, but, except in an emergency, don't go on to stronger remedies until you are sure the safer ones aren't effective for you.
As with any advice, you are the best judge of what works for you.
Legal Disclaimer: This content is not intended to replace conventional medical treatment.
Any suggestions made and all herbs listed are not intended to
diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease, condition or symptom.
Personal directions and use should be provided by a clinical
herbalist or other qualified healthcare practitioner with a specific formula
for you.
All material contained herein is provided for general information
purposes only and should not be considered medical advice or consultation.
Contact a reputable healthcare practitioner if you are in
need of medical care.
Exercise self-empowerment by seeking a second opinion.
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