This post by: Prof.. Hembing Wijayakusuma

Menstruation is the periodic bleeding events and cyclic (monthly) of the uterine mucous membrane accompanied by the release of the uterus (endometrium) through the vagina in women are sexually mature. Every healthy woman is not pregnant and not yet menopausal period will receive each month. In normal circumstances the length of periods ranging from 3-7 days and the average repeat every 28 days.

Menstrual pain is a complaint the most common gynecologic and many experienced by women. Menstrual pain is not known to do with the cause, but several factors can affect the hormonal imbalances and psychological factors. The pain can be a primary disorder or a secondary disturbance of various kinds of diseases. Menstrual pain caused by primary disorders quite often, usually occurs after the start of the first menstruation and often disappear after pregnancy or with the increasing age of women. Possible causes are the result of increased secretion of prostaglandins, hormones that cause increased uterine contractions, menstrual pain this type of attack a lot of teenagers and lasted until adulthood. Menstrual pain caused by secondary disturbances usually occur in older women who previously did not experience pain. Usually the pain associated with gynecologic disorders such as endometriosis, narrowing of the cervix, malposisi uterus, pelvic inflammatory disease, and tumors of the pelvic cavity. Therefore, to overcome it must be known for certain what the cause, so it can take the steps appropriate medical.

The symptoms of menstrual pain are: pain comes irregularly, sharp and cramping in the lower abdomen that is usually spread to the back, down the legs, groin and the vulva (the outside of the female genitalia). Menstrual pain was also followed by the syndromes premenstruasi varied set of symptoms that appear between 7 to 14 days before the menstrual period begins and usually stop when menstruation began. Symptoms â € “these symptoms include behavior such as anxiety, defresi, irritability / sensitivity, irritability, sleep disturbances, fatigue, weakness, food cravings and sometimes mood changes very quickly. In addition, physical complaints such as breast pain or swelling, bloating or abdominal pain, headache, joint pain, backache, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea or constipation, and skin problems like acne.

To reduce pain during menstruation because the primary disorder can use a painkiller (analgesic) such as aspirin, or with antiprostaglandin hormone administration to reduce the strength of uterine contractions, but antiprostaglandin hormone administration should be careful especially in women who wish to become pregnant.

Here are some things you can do to anticipate and reduce the pain during menstruation:

Attach a hot water bottle or heat pad / warm in the abdominal area.
Massage the abdomen / abdominal slowly
Try sleeping on your back with legs / knees propped up with pillows
Perform light exercise such as gymnastics, hiking, or biking at the time before and during menstruation, it can make blood flow to the muscles around the uterus becomes smooth, so that pain can be overcome or reduced.
Medicinal plants that can be used to reduce and overcome pain during menstruation have analgesic effect (pain relief), blood circulation, and dilute blood clot.
Here are examples of some medicinal plants that can be used to treat menstrual pain.

DAUN DEWA (Gynura segetum [Lour.] Merr.)
Part used: whole plant / herb
Effects: blood circulation, melt the blood clot, anti-coagulant

ROSES (Rosa chinensis Jack.)
Part used: Flowers
Effects: blood circulation, normalize the menstrual cycle, anti-inflammatory, eliminate swelling.

SIANTAN / SOKA (Ixora stricta Roxb.)
Part used: flower
Effect: relieve pain (analgesic), reduce blood clot, circulation.

LEAF HIA / NEW CHINA (Artemisia vulgaris L.)
Part used: whole plant / herb
The effect: eliminating pain (analgesic), blood circulation, regulate menstruation, to stop the bleeding, remove the cold.

GINJEAN (Leonurus sibiricus L.)
Part used: whole plant (herb)
Effects: blood circulation, normalize the menstrual cycle, menstrual peluruh (emenagog), eliminate swelling and shrinking of the uterus.

TEKI (Cyperus rotundus L.)
Part used: root
Effect: normalize the menstrual cycle, alleviate pain (analgesic), launched the vital energy. Is an important medicine for diseases in women (gynecological diseases)

Temu lawak (Curcuma xanthorrhiza)
Part used: rhizome
Effect: as peluruh period (emenagog), tonic, anti-inflammatory, hepatoprotektor, and others.
Here are examples of herbs recipe that can be used to overcome the pain of menstruation (dysmenorrhea):

Recipes 1.
Temu lawak 30 grams 30 grams + black + meeting 20 grams 20 grams ginger + Java + acid palm sugar to taste, washed and cut into pieces, boiled with 600 cc of water until the remaining 200 cc, filtered, the water was drunk.

Recipes 2.
3 red rosebud flower + 2 SIANTAN / soka + 15 grams of flowers bugenfil, washed and boiled with 600 cc of water until the remaining 300 cc, filtered, water is taken 2 times a day.

Recipes 3.
God of 15-30 grams of fresh leaves + 20 g turmeric, washed and boiled with 600 cc of water until the remaining 300 cc, filtered, water is taken 2 times a day.

Recipes 4.
30 g leaves hia / new china 15 grams of fresh or dried boiled with 400 cc of water until the remaining 200 cc, filtered, the water was drunk.

Recipes 5.
20 grams of dried ginjean + 10 grams of dried nut-grass tubers, washed and boiled with 600 cc of water until the remaining 300 cc, filtered, water is taken 2 times a day.

Note:
To use the pot boiling the ground, enamel pot or glass pot.