Help with Menstrual Cramps - PEP BB medicine.straw.menstrualcramps

This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP Curriculum.  Completing this BB is part of getting the straw badge in Natural Medicine.

Here's a video that has a few ideas which may or may not be applicable to your friend's issue:


Minimum requirements:
  - Help your friend with their Menstrual cramps problem
  - Refer to them by a number or pseudonym that you will continue to use for that friend throughout the Natural Medicine badge

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  - Describe the issue your friend is struggling with
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      - Duration
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      - Medical diagnosis
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Dee gets menstrual cramps - bad. She has been sent home from work a few times. She tried naproxen sodium, tylenol, ibuprofen and saw the Dr. The Dr. wanted to put her on birth control but Dee said no.

I created a blend of herbs which we call cramp bark plus in tincture form. Dee says "it tastes absolutely horrible but works. I've learned to drop it into the back of my throat instead of mixing it with water."

Edited to add the herbs in my tincture:
Cramp bark
Black Cohosh
Chamomile
Dong Quai
Motherwort