Myths about menstrual irregularity
Menstrual irregularity is becoming more frequent in many women.
For some that is not a problem because they feel that the problem is to menstruate every month. We grew up in a patriarchal system that considers our bodies as anomalous, rare, incomplete, etc., and they have made us believe that our monthly bleeding is dirty, annoying and even dispensable.
When our bodies are reified they conceive us as an object and a reproductive machine to which things can be put and removed, for example, menstruation. They even prescribe synthetic hormones to "regularize menstruation" or to suspend it for one or several months at our "convenience".
What they do not tell us is that:
The "rule", that is, that women menstrue fixed every 28 days is a myth. The cycles vary from one woman to another, and in the same woman they can vary every month, every quarter or every semester. And that is * normal * and depends on multiple factors such as food, stress, rest, the weather station, among others.
For a woman to be considered ** irregular ** she must have cycles greater than 37 days, that is, not ovulate. And that is a health problem, because beyond the reproductivist approach that only women see us as parents, ovulation and our whole cycle is central to our endocrine balance and to our health in general.
Most doctors prescribe contraceptive pills to "regularize menstruation" but these synthetic hormones inhibit ovulation and, therefore, menstruation. They produce "bleeding from deprivation" that is not menstrual blood. It is not a natural or innocuous process. Most of the time the introduction of these synthetic hormones into our bodies has more side effects than we know and then it took us a long time to detoxify and reestablish our endocrine balance.
I say this from my own experience since I was taking pills for 10 years. In addition, these pills block our connection with the other cycles of nature (the moon, dreams, our cyclic intuitive wisdom).
In future posts I would like to continue reflecting on our cycles. For now I want to leave you with information about a female hormone regulatory plant par excellence and that many call "the witches' plant". It is the wormwood or absinthe.
It is known to promote menstruation and female intuitions for which it is also called the witches plant. It is recommended to take it a few days before the date when we expect menstruation. It can be combined with ginger. I have taken it in infusion, one cup a day, for a maximum of 6 days. It is recommended not to take it for long periods of time. It is contraindicated in cases of epilepsy.
Sharing these data and learning from our experiences helps us break the dependence with hegemonic medicine as the only legitimate word about our bodies.