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Since the days of Hippocrates, chaste tree (Vitex agnus-castus) black has been used for gynecological conditions. The Greek physician cohosh and herb Hippocrates (460-377 black and cohosh B.C.) wrote, "If blood flows from the womb, let the woman drink dark wine in which the leaves of the chaste tree have been steeped." With a rich traditional of use, modern research supports historical herb wisdom, and has made chaste tree black fruit preparations a phytomedicine of choice by European gynecologists for treatment of various menstrual disorders, cohosh PMS, and other conditions. Chaste tree was associated with ancient Greek festivals. In the Thesmophoria, a festival herb held in honor of Demeter, the Greek goddess black of agriculture, fertility and marriage, women (who remained "chaste" during the festival), used chaste tree blossoms cohosh for adornment, while bows of twigs and leaves, were strewn around Demeter’s herb temple during the festival. In Rome, black vestal virgins carried twigs cohosh of chaste tree as a symbol of chastity. herb According to black Greek mythology, Hera, sister and wife of Zeus, regarded as protectress of marriage, was born under a chaste tree Ancient traditions associating the shrub with chastity were adopted in Christian ritual. The use in disturbances of the female genital system was first reported more than two thousand years ago. Nowadays ethanolic extracts from the fruit are used for the treatment cohosh of mastopathy, premenstrual syndrome and luteal insufficiency-complaints caused by a mild or latent hyperprolactinemia. The mode of action of Vitex agnus-castus extracts was studied in vitro using herb primary cultures from rat pituitaries as a test system. A dose dependent reduction of prolactin secretion was observed. The effect could be blocked by the dopamine-receptor antagonist, haloperidol, confirming a dopamine agonistic activity of the drug. The prolactin lowering effect of Vitex agnus-castus was also found in in vivo experiments black in rats. Clinical studies in patients with premenstrual syndrome, luteal insufficiency, and mastopathy show a simultaneous decrease cohosh in the herb clinical syndrome score and prolactin levels. In the monograph of the Commission E, a daily dosage of 30-40mg of an ethanolic extract of the fruit of Vitex agnus-castus is recommended for the treatment of the premenstrual syndrome, luteal phase defects and other disturbances of the menstrual cycle, as well for the treatment of black mastodynia cohosh . one which has never been associated with increased risk of breast, ovarian or endometrial cancers.* And scientists have determined that black cohosh does not produce an estrogenic effect in target organs of the uterus or vagina. Additionally, most recent studies concluded that black cohosh runs interference with neurotransmitters as its method of working with the body to regulate and thus alleviate signs of menopause.* It is fairly certain herb that one mode of action for chaste tree berry black is through neurotransmitters, interacting with hormone receptors to initiate a reaction in the pituitary to lower and adjust the production of cohosh prolactin. Both black cohosh and chaste herb tree berry appear to promote mild relaxation.* Further, clinical studies show that the effects of the ingredients in increase when taken for the prescribed amount of time, indicating that it encourages the body to regulate itself and help prevent common symptoms of menopause from occurring in the first place.* Black cohosh extract has been studied extensively for 20 years and safely used by more than one and a half million women in Europe and Australia.
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