Herbal Therapy: Herbal Anise in Ameliorated Menopausal Hot Flash Frequency and Severity

Kyle J. Norton 

Anise may have a potential and substantial effect in relief and reduced recurrence of menopausal hot flashes, some scientists suggested.

Anise is a flowering plant ofthe species of Pimpinella anisum, genus Pimpinella, belongings to the family Apiaceae native to to Egypt and the Mediterranean region, used in traditional herbal medicine as fragrance in soaps, oils, and mouth fresheners and stomachic, anti-septic, anti-spasmodic, ....agent

Chemical comstituents
Anethole, D-pinene, I-phellandrene, Alpha-terpineol, Safrol, Methyl chavicol, Resin, Shikimic acid, etc.

Hot flashes are the frequent symptoms of menopause induced sudden feelings of warmth in some parts of the body. The symptoms affect approximately 75% of all women in peri menopause in the Western world.

In the investigation of the effect of Pimpinella anisum and symptoms of hot flash in postmenopausal women, researchers at the Shahid Beheshti Universit conducted a review of medical records at health centers of sample of 72 women with hot flashes randomly selected according to the predetermined criteria and divided into experimental group received a capsule containing 330 mg Pimpinella anisum 3 times a day and control group received 3 capsules, each containing 330 mg potato starch, over 4 weeks with pre treatment of frequency and severity of hot flashes taken in 2 weeks before administration indicated that women in anise treatment group exert a significant reduced frequency and severity of hot flashes from the pre treatment of 4.21% and 56.21% to 1.06% and 14.44% at the end of the fourth week respectively in compared to control group.

Further analysis found that women who are in the anise testing group also continue benefits from the ameliorated of the frequency and severity of hot flashes in 4 weeks follow up examination.

These results suggested that long term intake of herbal Anise may have a continued efficacy in relief and recurrence of menopausal hot flashes.

Additional illustration of the prevalence of hot flash in menopause women by reviewing the literature published on MEDLINE (1966 to January 2015), Scopus (1996 to January 2015), and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (The Cochrane Library, issue 1, 2015), researchers at joint study lead by the Mashhad University of Medical Science showed that over all studies approved the herbal effects of Anise in contribution of reduced hot flash occurrence and frequency as well as alleviating the side effects of hot flashes.

Moreover, in the double-blind clinical trial conducted to determine the effects of Anise abstract on hot flashes in women referring to rural and urban health centers of Qazvin province during 2006 by randomly assigned 72 postmenopausal women at different verities selected according to pre-determined criteria and divided into group of experimental group took a capsule containing 100 mg Anise 3 times a day and control group received 3 placebo capsules, each containing 330 mg starch over over 4 weeks experimental periods, searchers after compared to the frequency of hot flashes and the types of food they took 1 weeks before administrations found that there are significant difference in hot flash expression in these 2 groups of women

The Anise group showed a substantial decrease in frequency and severity of hot flashes from  4.21% and 56.21% before treatment and 1.06% and 14.44% at the end of the fourth week, respectively.

And women in control expressed an insignificant change of hot flash frequency and severity in compared to measurement before treatment. 

Interestingly, after taking account of other con founders, Dr. Fatemeh Nahidi, the lead author said, "  women can be taught to choose different alleviating methods, preferably".

In other words, by providing enough information, women who suffered from menopause hot flash  should be able to choose different alleviating methods in relief and recurrence of the symptoms.

 Women who do not tolerate the side effect of conventional medicine with symptoms of hot flash may want to add a portion of Anise into their diet, please consult with your herbalist before taking the herbs for preventive measure.

Due to short term of 4 weeks of study, some researchers suggested that  further studies with longer duration of treatment Anise for assessing hot flashes are necessary.

Taken together, herbal Anise may be considered as adjunct therapy used combination with standard treatment of hot flash in women in peri-menopause, menopause and post menopause. However, intake of herbal Anise supplements should be taken with extreme care in prevented toxicity.

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Author Biography
Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrients, All right reserved)
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published on line, including world wide health, ezine articles, article base, healthblogs, selfgrowth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
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Some articles have been used as references in medical research, such as international journal Pharma and Bio science, ISSN 0975-6299.

Sources
(1) The Study on the Effects of Pimpinella anisum on Relief and Recurrence of Menopausal Hot Flashes by Nahidi F1, Kariman N, Simbar M, Mojab F.(PubMed)
(2) The efficacy of Iranian herbal medicines in alleviating hot flashes: A systematic review by Ghazanfarpour M1, Sadeghi R2, Abdolahian S3, Latifnejad Roudsari R4.(PubMed)
(3) Effect of anise extract on hot flush of menopause by Fatemeh Nahidi, M. Taherpour, F. Mojab, Hamid Alavi Majd(Research Gate)