Chinese herbs for menopausal hot flashes
Doctors at UCSF are conducting a study to determine whether Chinese herbs can help treat hot flashes:
"Violetta Reiser, Patient: "At night, every few hours you wake up and you're hot and you try to find a cold spot on the bed, cool off and then go back to sleep."
But Violetta is not interested in estrogen, in part because hormone therapy may cause serious side effects.
Violetta: "It was in the news that it's actually not good for you, that it might cause cancer."
So Violetta is trying an experimental therapy, a beverage that's a mixture of twenty-two Chinese herbs.
George Sawaya, M.D., UCSF Medical Center: "We are enrolling women at trial to see if they are interested in contributing to science, and in terms of figuring out the safety and efficacy of these herbs."
Dr. George Sawaya of UCSF says a preliminary study found the treatment decreases hot flashes by thirty percent. A larger trial now underway pits the herbal mixture against a placebo. No one, not even the doctors, will know who gets the real thing. "
"Violetta Reiser, Patient: "At night, every few hours you wake up and you're hot and you try to find a cold spot on the bed, cool off and then go back to sleep."
But Violetta is not interested in estrogen, in part because hormone therapy may cause serious side effects.
Violetta: "It was in the news that it's actually not good for you, that it might cause cancer."
So Violetta is trying an experimental therapy, a beverage that's a mixture of twenty-two Chinese herbs.
George Sawaya, M.D., UCSF Medical Center: "We are enrolling women at trial to see if they are interested in contributing to science, and in terms of figuring out the safety and efficacy of these herbs."
Dr. George Sawaya of UCSF says a preliminary study found the treatment decreases hot flashes by thirty percent. A larger trial now underway pits the herbal mixture against a placebo. No one, not even the doctors, will know who gets the real thing. "
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