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Article: Black cohosh may reduce hot flashes by targeting brain's thermostat.
- Article from:
- Women's Health Weekly
- Article date:
- October 2, 2003
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2003 OCT 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Black cohosh, a medicinal herb increasingly used by women as an alternative to estrogen replacement therapy, may reduce hot flashes by targeting serotonin receptors - some of the same receptors used by the brain to help regulate body temperature, according to a team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
The finding, the first to demonstrate a possible mechanism of action for the herb other than estrogen, increases the likelihood that the herb is safe to use, they say.
The study was described at a press briefing on hormone replacement therapy at the 226th national meeting of the American ...