Replied By Karen (Vancouver Island, Canada) on 05/01/2015
Hello! I have been having intermittent hot flashes for approximately five years but, for the past eight weeks, they have been brutal. I believe this newest change coincides with a complete lack of menses. I realize that eight weeks without a cycle does not mean I am finished menopause, but I think there has been at least a major shift in my hormones. Nonetheless, whatever the menopausal stage I am in, I am finding it difficult to cope with sleepless nights and uncomfortable and embarrassing flashes during the day. I have asked my husband to buy some apple cider vinegar and I going to try it tonight!! I think I will start with four tablespoons. Bottoms up and wish me luck!Replied By Marcin (Toronto, Canada) on 05/02/2015
For your symptoms I recommend you take sage. I just read on this topic yesterday. Here is what I found.
"In 1997, the National Institute of Medical Herbalists in the United Kingdom sent out a questionnaire to its member practitioners on the clinical use and experience of sage. Of 49 respondents, 47 used sage in their practice and 45 used it particularly in prescriptions for menopause. Almost all references were to sage's application for hot flashes, night sweats, and its estrogenic effect. The age range of the menopause patients was 40 to 64, with an average of 49.76. Three-quarters were aged 47 to 52. (...) Sage was prescribed as tea (aqueous infusion) by 37 practitioners, alcoholic tincture by 30, fresh tincture by 14, alcoholic fluidextract by 2, fresh juice by 2, and fresh leaf by 1 (Beatty and Denham, 1998).
It is well documented that Sage leaf helps to reduce menopausal sweats. (...) Sage has a strong anti-hydrotic action, and was a traditional treatment for night sweats in tuberculosis sufferers. Its oestrogenic effects may be used to treat some cases of dysmenorrhoea and menstrual irregularity or amenorrhoea and can reduce breast-milk production."
Quoted from http://www.herbwisdom.com/herb-sage.html
Replied By Lori (Colorado) on 01/11/2016
I have been having serious issues with this for about a year. I have a week or two of them and then none for a couple of months. Mine happen mostly during sleep, although not always, and within seconds I completely soak the bed with sweat. Night after night this is disrupting both my sleep and my poor understanding husband who always welcomes me onto his dry side....until I soak that too. I have ACV on hand and will start back on it tonight. I am an RN and this thing is beyond me. I wake somedays wondering how I have any fluid left in my body after these nights. I am 50 so I am fairly sure this is menopause though I have no uterus to confirm this with the absence of periods. THANKS TO ALL FOR YOUR SUGGESTIONS! Will report back! Here's hoping and praying something works soon....Replied By Diana (Maine) on 05/06/2016
Well I expect miracles however I must be honest...I forgot that I need an empty stomach. I did the 3 times with one tablespoon...I slept until 1 and after that it was downhill. I saw one comment on another website that to had 1/2 tsp baking soda.
My question is this: after several try-outs with it working, is this necessary to continue?
Replied By Helena (Californa) on 04/17/2017
Hi Dianna. Has the ACV remedy helped?