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Article: Hot flash help?: Women try black cohosh to ease menopause, but does it work?
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 14, 2007
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Black snakeroot, squaw root, rattle root, rattle weed, bugwort.
Call it what you will, the herb most commonly known as black cohosh
has been used to treat even more conditions than it has names.
Recently, women have been turning to black cohosh supplements for
relief of hot flashes and other menopause symptoms. The top-selling
brand is Remifemin, made by Schaper & Bruemmer, a German company.
LIVER TOXICITY WARNING
Nothing relieves hot flashes like estrogen, but concerns about
its safety have spurred many women to look for "natural"
alternatives on the assumption that they are benign. But based on
reports of several dozen hepatitis cases in black cohosh users,
Australia and several ...