Not exact matches
As a dietary supplement, magnesium is often recommended to those suffering
from severe asthma, migraines, arrhythmia, leg cramps, constipation, and
dysmenorrhea.
Pain
from secondary
dysmenorrhea usually begins earlier in the cycle and lasts longer than the menstrual cramps associated with primary
dysmenorrhea.
Dysmenorrhea, or painful menstruation, may result
from stress, ingestion of oxytocic herbs, endometriosis, and surgery.
Plant - based diets appear to offer relief
from a variety of menstrual symptoms, including bloating and breast pain (cyclical mastalgia), and women suffering with
dysmenorrhea — painful, crampy periods — who switch to a plant - based diet experience significant relief in menstrual pain intensity and duration.
In an Iranian study on women with
dysmenorrhea, after using ginger for just one menstrual cycle, the severity of their cramps went
from 28 % to 8 % and 36 % of these women were «considerably relieved»
from their cramps using ginger.
The decrease in duration of pain was reduced
from 2.4 to 1.8 days in people with primary
dysmenorrhea (painful periods).