Women Ripening Through the Menopause

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Women Ripening Through the Menopause is a thought provoking and empowering book, full of information for women and those who love and care for them. Melissa says,

Our self-image is a major factor in determining our internal health, but before we can feel good about ourselves, we need to unlearn the falsehoods of our culture.

Melissa demonstrates the importance of strong and powerful older women in our culture, using myth, archeological evidence, poetry, and remedy pictures.

Among the remedy pictures are Sepia, Cimicifuga, Folliculinum, Lachesis, Arsenicum, Helonias, and Senecio. Melissa's interest in homeopathy reflects her passion for a better world. She feels that without strong women there will be no future.

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Contents

Introduction: Menopause as Development - 1

Our Herstory -- 6
The Importance of Grandmothers and Spinsters -- 8
A Message from an Ancient Elder-Mother - 9
-- Senecio Aureus - Liferoot -- 13
-- Achillea Millefolium-Yarrow -- 15
-- Althaea Rosea - Hollyhock -- 16
-- Ephedra Vulgaris - Desert Tea -- 17
-- Centaurea Solstitial - St. Barnaby's Thistle -- 18
-- Muscari Atlanticum / racemosum - Grape Hyacinth -- 18
A Signal -- 19

From Goddess to Witch -- 20
Woman as Wise Priest -- 21
Snakes and Spirals -- 22
Lachesis - Lachesis Muta -- 24
Elder - Woman as Teachers -- 30
Aconite -- 36

Butchers, Barbers, Leechers, Lancers -- 39
Hysteria -- 44
Enter the Mind Experts -- 46
Cimicifuga -- 47
More Head Trips -- 52

Hormones -- 54
Hormone Replacement Therapy -- 55
HRT: A Dangerous Path -- 57
Cancer Risks -- 60
Adding Progestegens -- 61
DES -- 64
Administering HRT -- 65
Withdrawal -- 67
The Natural Myth -- 68
Folliculinum -- 69

Them Bones Them Bones Them Dry Bones -- 84
Known Causes of Osteoporosis -- 86
Calcium Supplementation -- 89
Exercise -- 90
A Tirade -- 91
Sepia -- 93

Scary Things -- 98
The Scared Womb -- 99
Fibroids (Myomas) -- 102
Diet -- 104
Therapeutic Fibroid Remedies -- 104
Aur Mur Natrum -- 104
Calc Carb -- 104
Fraxinus Americanus -- 104
Kali Brom -- 104
Lapis Albus -- 105
Sabina -- 105

Prolapse -- 105
Arnica -- 105
Belladonna -- 105
Lappa Arcticum -- 105
Lillium Tigrinum -- 105
Murex Brandaris -- 105
Nux Vomica -- 106
Palladium -- 106
Sepia -- 106
Stannum -- 106
Sulphur -- 106

Some Remedies Focusing on the Cervix -- 106
Calendula -- 106
Hydrastis -- 106
Medorrhinum -- 106
Sulphuric Acid -- 106
Sanguinaria Canadensis -- 106
Ustilago -- 106

Some Hemorrhage Remedies -- 107
Aletris Farinosa -- 107
Belladonna -- 107
Crotalus Horridus -- 107
Elaps Corallinus -- 107
Erigeron -- 107
Ferrum Metallicum -- 107
Helonias -- 107
Ipecacuanha -- 108
Lachesis -- 108
Millefolium -- 108
Phosphorus -- 108
Secale -- 108
Sabina -- 108
Ustilago -- 108

Some Uterine Strengtheners -- 109
Caulophyllum -- 109
Helonius -- 109
Ratanhia -- 111
Thlaspi Bursa Pastoris -- 111

Less Scary Stuff -- 111

Wisening Women Arise -- 116
Journey Home -- 119-120
Crone Women -- 121
Spider Women -- 122
Arsenicum - The White Death Goddess -- 122
Poem: Ripening Women - 127
References -- 128

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