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Ovaries and Healing
Ovarian Cysts and Mittelschmerz 
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Healing the Ovaries
According to Drs Lee and Hanley for healing infertility:
Stimulate ovulation

If estrogen-dominance symptoms are present, use some natural progesterone cream to restorebalance. See Renewed Balance info

Use the herb Vitex every day, including during menses, for at least three months (unlessyou become pregnant then stop.

What to avoid:
Birth controls pills (they can cause infertility)
Unopposed estrogen
Talcum powder in the genital region
Pesticides of all kinds
Junk foods including caffeine, sugar, nutrasweet and refined carbohydrates.
Dairy products
Feed-lot-meats (eat only range-fed organic meats free of drugs and pesticide residues)
Fertility drugs - especially Provera

For the ovaries:
If estrogen-dominance symptoms are present - see Symptoms ofEstrogen Dominance, use natural progesterone cream - RenewedBalance Natural Progesterone
For functional ovarian cysts, take a liver supporting and detoxifying herbal formula thatincludes some or all of the following:
Bupleurum, Milk thistle (Licorice root is listed below and has the same actions andproperties but is also a phytoestrogen necessary for the follicular phase, will lowertestosterone in women, increase cervical mucus and decrease male facial and body hairpatterns), barberry or goldenseal, burdock root, yellow dock, and dandelion root.  Donot take licorice root if you have high blood pressure.

For functional ovarian cysts, take an ovary-healing herbal formula that includes some orall of the following herbs: burdock root, cramp bark, licorice root, dandelion root,Vitex, red raspberry...

Take a good multi-vitamin-mineral daily (these are the most questionable and I recommendwholefood supplements which are more readily absorbed by the body in their entirety). Dr.Lee recommends getting folic acid and calcium as well as other vitamins and mineralsstraight from food especially green leafy vegetables. See the JustCarrots, RediBeets and Barleygreen.

What To Do To Restore Ovulation:
Manage stress more effectively and slow 
Avoid very strenuous exercise.
Avoid very low calorie diets Take the herb Vitex. See ourstore.
Use some natural progesterone cream on days 5-26 for three cycles to temporarily suppressovulation
On the fourth cycle, ovulation will often return.  (longer times may be needed forsome who have more severe conditions.)
(By the way, he can only say often but he does mean very often according to his writingand research.)
Work through traumatic events with creative outlets, therapy, journal writing and so on.
Leave abusive relationships

OvarianCysts and Mittelschmerz
Ovarian cysts are products of failed or disordered ovulation. As I have described earlier,one or more ovarian follicles is developed monthly by the effects of follicle-stimulatinghormone (FSH). Luteinizing hormone (LH) promotes actual ovulation and the transformationof the follicle (after ovulation) into the corpus luteum, which produces progesterone.During a young woman’s early years of menstruating, ovulation may coincide with asmall amount of bleeding where the follicle has ruptured to release the egg. This cancause abdominal pain, often with a slight fever, at the time of ovulation (in the middledays between periods) and is commonly called MITTELSCHMERZ (German for "middle"and "pain"). Treatment might consist only of some ibuprofen, reassurance, restand perhaps a warm pack. It is unlikely to recure and portends no future problems.

Later in life, usually after their midthirties, women sometimes develop an ovarian cystthat may not cause any symptoms, or it may cause pelvic pain ranging from mild to severe.The cyst may simply collapse and disappear after a month or two, or it may persist andincrease in size and discomfort during succeeding months. Such cysts are caused by afailed ovulation in which, for reason presently unknown, the ovulation did not proceed tocompletion. With each succeeding month’s surge of LH, the cyst swells and stretchesthe surface membrane, causing pain and possible bleeding at the site. Some cysts maybecome as large as a golf ball or lemon before discovery. Treatment may require surgery.(Removing the ovary along with the cyst used to be the standard procedure, but I recommendasking your surgeon to leave the ovary intact if at all possible.)

An alternative treatment for ovarian cysts is natural progesterone. The signalingmechanism that shuts off ovulation in one ovary each cycle is the production ofprogesterone in the other . If sufficient natural progesterone is supplemented prior toovulation, LY levels are inhibited and both ovaries thing the other one has ovulated, soregular ovulation does not occur. (This is the same effect as contraceptive pills.)Similarly, the high estriol and progesterone levels throughout pregnancy successfullyinhibit ovarian activity for nine months. Therefore, adding natural progesterone from day10 to day 26 of the cycle suppresses LH and it’s luteinizing effects. Thus theovarian cyst will not be stimulated and, in the passage of one or two such monthly cycles,will very likely shrink and disappear without further treatment.

This is from the book "What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause" byDr. John R. Lee. He is a foremost authority in treating women with Natural Progesteronefor so many things. So much of what a woman suffers is from hormone imbalance and nothingelse. There are xenoestrogens in plastics, canned goods and even in water. (Syntheticestrogens) The effect is that women’s body attacked on a hormonal level. His book isthe result of 20 years using Natural Progesterone. Renewed Balance is naturalprogesterone. It is one of the highest concentrations available today, which means morefor your money. You need only 1/8 of a teaspoon for 2 wks a month for hormonal well being.Your symptoms determine which part of the month is right for you. As he stated above, forovarian cysts from day 10 to 26, for infertility it would be ovulation to menses and forpost menopause day 5 - 26. There are so many symptoms but we don't want to merely treatthe symptoms.

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