August 10, 2015
(NaturalSociety.com) Many women suffer unnecessarily painful periods each month, often requiring pharmaceutical medication to get by. Unfortunately, drugs such as NSAIDs can have harmful side effects, particularly if a high dosage is required. On the other hand, new research shows that cinnamon is an effective treatment for painful periods, otherwise known as dysmenorrhoea.
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Comparing Cinnamon to Other Treatments
In a randomized, double-blind trial, 114 female college students received either 420mg of cinnamon, 400mg of iburoprofen, or a placebo three times daily for the first three days of menstruation. There were no significant differences between the three groups, however, the longer menstrual periods of the cinnamon group was not exceedingly far from significance.
While the difference in pain scores between cinnamon and placebo groups was only 0.2-0.3 points until 8 hours, at 8 hours the difference began to diverge, this time at 0.6 points (6.5 in the control group, 5.9 in the placebo group). Pain scores were on the Visual Analogue Scale out of 10.
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