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Article: Black cohosh: state of the science and art.(Women's Health Update)
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- Townsend Letter: The Examiner of Alternative Medicine
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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The medicinal use of black cohosh (Actaea racemosa or Cimicifuga racemosa) has a long herbal tradition in North America and Europe. A member of the buttercup family, black cohosh is native to the eastern part of North America and found as far west as Arkansas. Black cohosh was used by Native Americans for a range of disorders, including menstrual cramps, labor pains, general malaise, malaria, kidney ailments, and rheumatism. Additional uses by early settlers in the US colonies included amenorrhea, bronchitis, fevers, back pains, nervous disorders, yellow fever, and diverse problems of the uterus. The Eclectic physicians of the 1800s used Cimicifuga for similar problems ...