Importance of Estrogen Levels

Most of the estrogen in women is naturally produced in the ovaries; but some amount of estrogen coming from the adrenal glands and fat.

Estrogen levels can fluctuate during key periods of woman’s life (puberty, menstruation, and menopause).

In some women, there is an inadequate production of the three estrogen hormones estradiol, estriol, and estrone. When levels drop in women over 40-45 years of age, it indicate the onset of menopause. Low levels in younger women is a sign of serious health issue(s).

Low Estrogen Causes

As estrogen levels drop naturally during various times in a woman’s life, there is no need for concern unless low levels do not return to normal.

Low levels can also be caused by:

• Eating disorders
• Ovarian cysts
• Excessive exercise
• Low ovary or pituitary gland function
• Chronic kidney disease
• Turner Syndrome
• Precursor to miscarriage
• Fertility medications

Symptoms of Low Estrogen

The signs and symptoms of low estrogen levels are important to note as they can indicate whether levels will naturally increase or if treatment is required.

• Mood swings
• Dry skin
• Hot flashes
• Night sweats
• Fatigue
• Depression
• Insomnia
• Irregular periods
• Breast tenderness
• Frequent urinary tract infections
• Painful sexual intercourse
• Headaches
• Lack of concentration
• Low bone density

Diagnosis of Low Estrogen

An early diagnosis gives you a better chance of preventing further complications and possible serious health diseases. For a proper diagnosis, your medical professional will assess any of the symptoms you are experiencing along with your medical and family history. This can help pinpoint possible causes. Key symptoms to discuss are insomnia, infrequent periods, night sweats, and hot flashes. Your estrogen levels can be measured with blood tests, and depending on the results, you may undergo a brain scan or DNA testing. These tests focus on your endocrine system.

Low Estrogen Treatment

1. Estrogen Therapy

Estrogen therapy is generally used to boost levels in women between the ages of 25 and 50.

Prescribed orally, vaginally, topically, or as an injection (allopathic drugs only), supplements of estrogen can lower patient’s risk for cardiovascular disease and bone loss and may also alleviate some of the symptoms of menopause.

The length of this therapy is dependent on estrogen levels and the cause of the fluctuation. In allopathic way of treatment, treatment usually lasts for one to two years and it may increase ones risk of developing cancer; while Homeopathically estrogen treatment is from one to three months (individual).

2. Hormone Replacement Therapy

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) enhances the natural production of estrogen in the body. This is a common therapy recommended to women beginning menopausal changes as estrogen and progesterone levels decrease drastically at this time. As with estrogen, HRT is available by injection (allopathic only), topically, vaginally, and orally.

In allopathic treatment, Doctors monitor this treatment closely as two types of hormones are involved in the adjustment and they may also increase one’s risk for blood clots, cardiovascular disease, stroke, and cancer.

Natural Ways to Increase Estrogen

1. Balanced Diet

Maintaining a well-balanced diet of nutritious foods can also help boost estrogen levels. Foods such as soybeans, tofu, edamame, peas, bran, fruits, and vegetables are phytoestrogens. Eat foods rich in vitamin C, carotene, and B vitamins such as spinach, kale, corn, asparagus, beets, bananas, avocadoes, and seeds. Adding the herb chaste berry to diet may also promote higher levels of estrogen production; eat natural oils and/or fats (not refined and/or processed). Limit intake of processed sugar, and increase fiber intake.

2. Exercise

Exercising regularly at a moderate level may increase one’s estrogen and other hormone levels naturally. Avoid excessive exercise as one drawback is its lowering effect on estrogen levels. Stick to homework (cooking, washing, cleaning, dusting etc) or at least 30 minutes each day exercise for overall good health.

3. Tobacco

Patient should stop smoking or chewing tobacco. Studies show using tobacco products hinders the endocrine system, thereby blocking natural production of estrogen.

4. Caffeine

Research suggests that drinking two cups of green tea or black tea (without milk and sugar) each day can increase estrogen levels in women of reproductive age.

Homeopathic Medicines for Hormone Imbalance

Pulsatilla

Most effective Homeopathic medicines for hormone imbalance leading to PCOS are Pulsatilla and Sepia.

Pulsatilla should be advised if periods are irregular, suppressed, scanty and very painful. Acne from hormonal or menstrual irregularities may appear.  Labour pains, Spasmodic pains, hysterical spasms; Suppression of menses

Sepia

Sepia is another most effective Homeopathic medicines for hormone imbalance leading to PCOS with irregular periods. Along with menstrual troubles, complaints of facial hair and infertility from PCOS, flushes, tiredness, indifferent toward life and/or family, mood swings, irritable, irritable mood appears a few days before periods, bearing down sensation ( in the pelvic region, uterine/internal organs), vaginal dryness (may lead to aversion to sex) etc.

Lachesis

Lachesis is indicated where marked hot flushes appear from hormonal imbalance during menopause, flashes of heat all day, and cold flashes on retiring at night. Lachesis patients cannot bear tight clothing around the neck and/or waist, hysteria, Pains from ovaries to uterus. Mental depression with aversion to meeting people and loss of interest in routine work, complaint of headache in such cases.

Ignatia

Ignatia will be prescribed where the main complaint is mood swings, emotional imbalance, depression, sadness and weeping before menses, continuous sad thoughts; still, serious melancholy, with moaning, Sadness and concentrated sorrow. Cramp-like and compressive pains in uterine region, with fits of suffocation; pressure, and lying on the back, mitigate the pain.

Itching in the genital parts, and in the penis, in the evening after lying down especially in the evening, removed by scratching, Lasciviousness, with weakness of genital power (without erections).-Contraction of the penis; it becomes quite small.

Conium Maculatum

Conium is recommended as the most remarkable among Homeopathic medicines for hormone imbalance where breast pain, swelling and tenderness are the main issues arising before periods, Cramps in the uterus, with pinchings or contracting, or with digging above the vulva, accompanied by tension in the abdomen, Shootings in the vagina, and sensation as of bearing down, Shooting in the labia. Breasts flabby, Inflammation of the mammae, with stitches.

Swelling of the testes, Impotence, insufficient erections, and absence of erections, Easy emission of semen, even without firm erections.

Agnus Castus

Agnus Castus is an effective medicines for hormone imbalance in men with complete impotence, Diminution of sexual power. The penis is small and flaccid; so relaxed that voluptuous fancies excite no erection, feeble erections without sexual desire, the testicles are cold, swollen, hard, and painful.

The erections are totally absent with relaxed, flaccid genitals. Aversion to sex, Itching of the genital organs; Yellow discharges from the urethra.

Female: Transparent leucorrhoea; parts very relaxed. Leucorrhoea spotting linen yellow. Sterility, with suppressed menses, Swelling and inflammation of the uterus

Caladium

Erections are absent, but sexual desire is present. Depression and sadness with erectile dysfunction, Despairing sadness; low-spirited, Low spirits and gloomy thoughts (impotence). Forgetfulness. Very irritable and depressed, Confused, Organs swollen (puffy), relaxed, and sweating, swelling of margin of prepuce with smarting during micturition, Glans red, dry; dotted with still redder points. Glans flabby, sexual desire with relaxed penis.-Impotence with mental depression.

Female Sexual Organs: Itching of external genitals with voluptuousness. Pruritus of vulva and vagina. Pruritus vaginae; with onanism (nymphomania), cramp-like pains in uterus after midnight.

Lycopodium

Weak erections, premature ejaculation, silent, melancholy, and peevish humour; despair of eternal salvati, desponding, grieving mood, sadness when hearing distant music,  desires to be alone.

Male: Shooting, drawing, and incisive pain in the glans, Excoriation between scrotum and thighs. Dropsical swelling of genital organs. Immoderate excitement, or absence of sexual desire. Repugnance to coition, or disposition to be too easily excited to it. Impotence of long standing. Weakness or total absence of erections. Penis small, cold, relaxed. Itching of the internal surface of the prepuce.

Female: Nymphomania with terrible teasing desire in external organs. Itching, burning, and gnawing in vulva. Pressure towards the outside, above the vulva, and extending as far as the vagina, when stooping, Expulsion of wind from the vagina, Chronic dryness of vagina, shooting pains in labia, when lying down. Excoriation between the thighs, and at the vulva. Burning pain in the vagina, during and after coition. Catamenia (too early) too profuse, and of too long duration. Catamenia suppressed readily, and for a long time, by fright.

Before menses: shivering, sadness, melancholy; bloatedness of the abdomen.

During menses: delirium, with tears; headache; sourness in the mouth; pain in loins; swelling of feet; fainting; vomiting of sour matter; cuttings, colic; and pains in the back. Menstruation too late; lasts too long; sometimes suppression of; profuse, protracted; flow partly black, clotted, partly bright red or partly serum; with labour-like pains followed by swooning; with sadness; suppressed by fright. May find females at change of life with one side of the body greatly hypertrophied.

Foetus appears to be turning somersaults. Metrorrhagia; at menopause; dark blood with large clots. A rumbling begins in upper abdomen and descends to lower, when a flow of blood follows, and so on successively.

Leucorrhoea: milky, yellowish, reddish, and corrosive; sometimes preceded by cuttings in abdomen. Varices on the genitals. Disposition to miscarriages. Swelling of the breasts with nodosities. Excoriation and moist scabs on nipples. Stinging in nipples. Milk in breasts without being pregnant.

Nuphar Luteum 

Nuphar Luteum is one of the most useful Homeopathic medicines for hormone imbalance in men where sexual desire is completely lost, Impatient of slightest contradiction. Excessive moral sensibility, involuntary emissions during stool and urination, Entire absence of erections and desire; voluptuous ideas which fill imagination do not cause erections. Penis retracted, scrotum relaxed. Diminution of lascivious thoughts and desires for some days; opposite effect during succeeding days.

Acid Phos and Selenium 

Helpful homeopathic medicines from hormone imbalance causing hair loss in men are Acid Phos and Selenium. Acid Phos is very effective among Homeopathic medicines for hormone imbalance where it leads to hair loss from the scalp, whiskers and genitals in men, Disposition to weep. Weakness and fatigue are also predominantly present in, Restlessness and precipitation.-Silent (sadness) peevishness and aversion to conversation. Great indifference, complete indifference to everything; not a soporous, delirious, or irritable condition, but simply an indifferent state of mind to all things; patient does not want anything, nor to speak, shows no interest.

Lancinating pains in glans. Fine pricking at point of penis. Burning cutting in glans with an out pressing pain in both groins. A feeling of heaviness in glans, especially when urinating. Tingling and oozing vesicles round fraenum, Inflammatory swelling of scrotum.-Pain in testes when touched. Gnawing pain in testes.

Female Sexual Organs: Oophoritis, metritis, or prolapsus from debilitating or emotional influences; amenorrhoea. Very irritable uterus. Uterine ulcer, with copious, putrid, bloody discharge, itching or corroding pain, or no pain. Hepatic pains during menses, menses too early and too long; too copious; too late; dark clotted; preceded by leucorrhoea, and for one or two days by griping and rumbling in abdomen. Yellowish, itching leucorrhoea after menses.

Distension of uterus as by gas, Itching pricking like flea-bites between mammae, obliging her to rise at night. Dysuria during pregnancy; cutting pains.

Vomiting at sight of food during pregnancy. Puerperal convulsions; albuminuria; haemorrhage. Scanty milk with debility and great apathy. Deterioration of health during nursing. Constant vomiting of milk in a suckling; waxy face; blue rings round eyes; child does not cry; mother has little milk. Sharp pressure in breast and nipple.

Calcarea Carb

Calcarea carbonica, a well indicated Homeopathic medicines for hormone imbalance from under-functional thyroid gland (hypothyroidism).

Melancholy, dejection, and sadness. Disposition to weep, even about trifles. Vexation and lamentation, on account of old offences. Anxiety and anguish, excited by fancies, or frightful stories, Sadness, with heaviness in the limbs, shuddering and dread during the twilight, or at night, sensitivity to cold air is well marked, Excessive ill-humour and mischievous inclination, with obstinacy and a disposition to take everything in bad part. Indifference, apathy.

Male Sexual Organs: Inflammation of the prepuce, with redness and burning pain. Pressure, and pain as from a bruise, in the testes. Weakness of the genital functions, and absence of sexual desire. Increase of sexual desire, with voluptuous and lascivious ideas. Erections of too short continuance, and emission of semen too slow and too feeble during coition. Lancinations and burning in the genital parts, during the emission of semen in coition. After coition, confusion of the head and weakness. Flow of prostatic fluid, after evacuation and emission of urine.

Female Sexual Organs: Catamenia premature and too copious. Sterility, with catamenia too early, and too profuse, mammae swollen and painful, fatigue, headache, disposition to be frightened, colic, and shivering.

During the catamenia, congestion in the head, with internal heat, or cuttings in the abdomen, and cramp-like pain in the lumbar region, or else vertigo, headache, toothache, nausea, colic, and other sufferings. Suppressed menstruation, with full habit. Miscarriage. Voluptuous sensation in the genital parts, with emission. Itching or pressing in the vagina. Shootings in the orifice of the matrix, and pressive pain in the vagina. Prolapsus uteri, with pressure on the parts. Itching in the womb. Inflammation and swelling of the womb, with redness, purulent discharge, and burning pain.

Varices in the labia majora. Leucorrhoea before the catamenia, Leucorrhoea, with burning itching, or else like milk, flowing by fits, and during the emission of urine. Pain, as of excoriation and ulceration, in the nipples. Inflammatory swelling of the mammae and of the nipples. Swelling of the glands of the breast, breasts painful and tender before menses.

Iodum

Iodum, a Homeopathic medicines for hormone imbalance from a hyperactive thyroid gland (hyperthyroidism).

Iodum is selected in case of major weight loss in spite of eating well. Along with losing flesh, complains of heated sensation in body, restlessness, nervousness and anxiety, Lachrymose disposition and mental dejection. Melancholy hypochondriasis, sadness, heart-ache, and anxiety.

Fear: shuns persons, anxious apprehensions, restless agitation (with inclination to move about), which will neither permit the patient to remain seated, nor to sleep. Irresistible impulse to run; feels she will fall if she walks. Cross, irascible, peevish. Heart palpitates “like lightning” when thinking of real or imaginary wrongs. Sudden maniacal impulses; to murder. Excessive mental excitement, with great susceptibility. Illusions of moral feeling. Loquacity and immoderate gaiety.

Hesitation and irresolution. Indolence of mind, with great repugnance to all intellectual labour. Fixedness, delirium. Effects of amorousness; of disappointed love. Accelerated pulse rate and weakness. are other problems to look out for before selecting Iodum as the ideal prescription among Homeopathic medicines for hormone imbalance. Palpitations from light exertion also point towards use of Iodum.

Male Sexual Organs: Complete loss of sexual power, testicles atrophied. Violent and constant erections. Sexual desire increased. Painful pullings in the anterior part of the penis. Aching, pressing, twisting, or forcing pain in spermatic cords; after sexual dalliance. Swelling and hardness of the testes. Hardness of the prostate gland. After stool, milk-like fluid runs from urethra. Hydrocele, offensive sweat of genitals.

Female: Catamenia at one time too late, at another too early. Menses premature, violent and copious. Metrorrhagia. Weakness, palpitation of the heart, and many sufferings, before, during, and after the catamenia. Atrophy of ovaries and breasts, with sterility. Pain (dull, pressing, wedge-like) commencing in right ovary passing down broad ligament to uterus. Great sensitiveness of right ovarian region during or after menses. Inflammation of right ovary with an itching eruption on head and hands following application of Iodine to os uteri.

Chronic oophoritis with thick, yellow, burning leucorrhoea, worse after eating. Pain in lower abdomen, pain ovarian region worse by motion and by eating. Induration and swelling (cancer?) of the uterus. Uterine haemorrhage renewed after every stool. Leucorrhoea, corroding the limbs and the linen; acrid; profuse; worse at time of menses.

Flaccidity and atrophy of the breasts. Mammary hyperaesthesia. Heaviness of breasts as if they would fall off. Acute pain and soreness in breasts with metritis. Bluish red nodosities (in both breasts); dry, black points at tips. Galactorrhoea; thin, watery milk; weakness; emaciation, breasts atrophied and relaxed.

Natrum Mur

Depressed, nervous and irritable nature suffering from thyroid hormone imbalance. Weight loss, emaciation, markedly on the neck, Weakness, tachycardia and bradycardia. Natrum Mur is equally effective in regulating the menstrual cycle disturbed by thyroid hormone imbalance in women.

Pressure and general bearing down towards genital organs every morning; has to sit down to prevent prolapsus. Prolapsus uteri with aching in loins worse when lying on back; cutting in urethra after micturition. Catamenia premature and profuse; or retarded and scanty. Sterility, with too early and too profuse menstruation. Prolonged catamenia, suppression of catamenia.

Difficulty in appearance of first menses, sadness, cramps in abdomen.-Spitting blood at menstrual nisus; bloody saliva. Itching in genital organs. Repugnance to coition.

Coition: painful from dryness of vagina; burning smarting during; in anaemic women with dry mouth and dry skin. Leucorrhoea, with headache, disposition to diarrhoea, colic, and mucous evacuations. Acrid (greenish) leucorrhoea (increased discharge when walking), with yellow colour of face. Abundant discharge of transparent, whitish, and thick mucus from vagina.

Vulvitis with falling off of hair. Itching of external parts with falling off of hair. Pimples on mons veneris. Stitches beneath nipples, breasts sensitive to slightest touch.

P. S : This article is only for doctors having good knowledge about homeopathy, and for learning purpose(s).

NoN of above mentioned medicine(s) is/are not the full/complete treatment but just hints for treatment; every patient has his own constitutional medicine along with these mentioned above.

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