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Here’s the “official” information from the Remifemin website: http://www.remifemin.com/Products/Menopause/07500-Remifemin.aspx According to information from my midwife (who’s a CNM and professor in the department of OB/GYN at the University of Maryland) the ingredient, black cohosh, has been used for years and years to treat various “female disorders”. (N.B: black cohosh and blue cohosh are VERY different.) It’s unlike soy-based supplements in that it’s not a phytoestrogen; it’s not estrogenic. According to a friend who’s a German pharmacobotanist, herbal supplements which pass some German screening/testing process (which Remifemin has) is extremely rigourous. This means that when the label says the product has 20 mg. of black cohosh root and rhzome, it contains just that–no more, no less and that’s the part of the plant. This is unlike what you may get from a vitamin shop which sells generic “black cohosh”. According to my psychatrist/neuropharmacologist, she says “it’s good stuff”. I swear, I’m not a schill! It just seems to be a useful product.
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