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眾所周知,許多女性都瞭解,經前綜合徵(PMS)難以治療。但一些緩解可能即將出現。根據《英國醫學雜誌》1月20日刊登的一份報告,牡荊樹(Vitex agnus castus)的果實被證明能有效緩解有時使人衰弱的經前綜合徵症狀。

德國H¿ttenberg的醫療保健與科學研究所的研究人員研究了170名被診斷患有該綜合徵的女性。在三個月經週期中,86名參與者接受了牡荊提取物;另有84名接受了安慰劑。研究小組在第一個週期的開始和第三個週期的結束時評估了六種症狀:煩躁、憤怒、情緒改變、頭痛、腹脹和乳房脹痛。

他們發現,服用牡荊提取物的女性在除腹脹外的所有症狀方面都經歷了顯著改善。事實上,超過一半的女性的症狀至少改善了50%,而且副作用很少且輕微。研究人員總結說:“牡荊果實的乾燥提取物是緩解經前綜合徵症狀的有效且耐受性良好的治療方法。”

Kate Wong is an award-winning science writer and senior editor at 大眾科學 focused on evolution, ecology, anthropology, archaeology, paleontology and animal behavior. She is fascinated by human origins, which she has covered for more than 25 years. Recently she has become obsessed with birds. Her reporting has taken her to caves in France and Croatia that Neandertals once called home, to the shores of Kenya's Lake Turkana in search of the oldest stone tools in the world, to Madagascar on an expedition to unearth ancient mammals and dinosaurs, to the icy waters of Antarctica, where humpback whales feast on krill, and on a "Big Day" race around the state of Connecticut to find as many bird species as possible in 24 hours. Kate is co-author, with Donald Johanson, of Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins. She holds a bachelor of science degree in biological anthropology and zoology from the University of Michigan. Follow Wong on X (formerly Twitter) @katewong

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