Natural Medicines Versus HRT for Menopause

NATURAL MEDICINES VERS HRT FOR
MENOPAUSE

Menopause and Its
Background
•Menopause is a physiological
condition for perdurable cessation of
menstrual cycle
•Menopause occurs due to loss of
general activity of ovarian follicles
• Menopause can be addressed by the
condition of ovarian destruction and
general failure of ovary due to
estrogens deficiency.
•The previous condition of starting
menopause is termed as
perimenopause, in which irregularity
of cycle followed by declining
fertility.
•Another one is delayed menopause
when it is failed to happen even in 55
years (Boardman et al., 2015).

Background
•Generally major number of women
experience hot flushed and sweats at
night on the time of menopause.
•Now a day Hormone replacement
Therapy (HRT) is discovered for the
prodution of artificial biologial
hormone, like estrogen and
progesteron
•Also for natural treatment certain
herbal therapies along with herbal
medicines were discovered.
• Both that formulation have certain
benefits in particular condition not for
all condition in every patient.
(Depypere & Comhaire, 2014).

HRT in Menopause
•HRT treatment is needed for those
women who symptomatically suffer
from lack of estrogen secretion.
•However, this artificial biological
hormone preparation has high risk of
CVD, osteoporosis, Stroke,
Alzheimer’s disease and colonic
ulcer in menopausal condition
(Ettinger, Li & Klein 2018).
•Patient having Gonodal dysgeneis
in adolescents need HRT.

Continuation
•Now in case of HRT during
menopause it can be seen that
artificially produced estrogen is quite
helpful for preventing both hot flashes
and oestrogen deficiency.
•It inducess the high risk of CVD,
osteoporosis and Alzheimer’s disease.
•The main benefits of artificially
prepared biological hormone are it can
be used by oral, transdermal, implants,
vaginal and Intramuscular injection
(Franco et al. 2016).
•Also this therapy reduces irritability
and anxiety in major of the
menopausal women and help to relief
mild depression.

Indications
Short term-
•Hot flushes, vasomotor symptoms
•Dyspareunia
•Libido
•Urethral symptoms
Long term-
•Osteoporosis
•Cardiovascular
•Alzheimer’s disease