Efficacy and safety of Cimicifuga racemosa in management of climacteric syndrome during a year (results of own study)

Abstract

Menopausal age is usually the most socially active period for a woman who accumulated a certain life and creative experience which she can share to the benefit of the society. However, the changes affecting the female body during menopausal period have a negative impact on the quality of life. The main factor is sex hormone deficiency leading to a variety of pathological processes. The most common early manifestation of menopausal disorders is climacteric syndrome, which is a combination of symptoms characterized by a set of neuropsychiatric, vegetative-vascular, neuroendocrine disturbances dramatically reducing the quality of life and predicting subsequent health problems, including cardiovascular disease [2]. The incidence of climacteric syndrome (CS) varies from 40 to 80% [13, 19]. The most common symptoms of CS are hot flushes which, as different authors note, occur in 50-85% of women [6, 11, 16] and last for a period from 3 months up to 15 years or even longer [14].