[najida]

Not to mention all the folk medicine...
There was bottled elixir on the shelves for years when I was a kid...that was guaranteed to 'help with irregular menses'....And I think the ingredients were cohosh, parsley and pennyroyal.

[JustPiper]

Yeppers black cohosh is essential to us. I grew up with a Polish grandmother that preached natural medicine, so I studied it for a time, taking mail correspondence. When I was diagnosed with something, the traditional MD said the good news is, we know what's wrong. Bad news we cannot treat it, I suggest Homepathically and that began even what I believe in today, 20 years later. Country folk, whether here or across the ocean, know what they speak of!