hello everyone! Great forum!!! keep it up Eve and all others who has entered a whole lot of info for us newbees. i am new here. i did introduced my self about 10 days before but didnt get any replies, so i think i should do it again. i m 26 years, 50kgs, 5'5", BMI 18.3 to take it to 19 i m trying to gain some weight as well.
currenty i am 32AAA :(. i was looking at this forum for more than a month now and have gone thorugh the newbees section and always going back and forth on the reference pages. i have decided to start with fenugreek and saw palmetto, but before that for preparation cannot decide what to use. if milk thistle the only vegetarian friendly affordable i could fine are 380 mg Providing:
Silymarin 304mg* is that alright to take one a day 2 weeks before the periods.
the other thing i believe wild yam cream almost do the same and applied to the same areas as progesterone cream. so can we use wild yam instead of pm cream for preparation phase???
one more thing i m from uk and the only affordable vege caps for saw palmetto i can find are at homeherbs.co.uk 500mg. is that dose alright to start with as i saw most recommending 320mg.
thanx every one for your support!
sorry for the long post
Shaz
SP dose depends on whethere the capsules are whole berry or extract, look more like whole berry. In this case, you could take one or two capsules, up to your choice. I personally would advise you to add a third herb to your routine, wild yam the best. It's ok to use it in cream, but it might be better to get it internally as well. Although I have heard before that progesterone cream is used for a preparation phase, I don't quite understand why, it doesn't have cleansing properties as far as I know. Wild yam is a progesteronic herb, because it contains compounds that bind to progesterone receptors, but it doesn't contain anything that our body can convert into progesterone.
You can do a milk thistle cleanse before a routine, but you can also use it occasionally during a routine. Milk thistle contains sylimarin, which acts on the liver, so any commercial preparation of sylimarin would also be good.
thanx for your reply moon. i was really looking forward to one. the SP capsules i m looking at is may be in extract form(because the information the website is giving is all about extract, however the picture of the label doesnt say actual word "extract", im bit confused) saying 500mg(which are the only vege caps i can found with a potency at little as 500mg). So could you please conform me, can i start with that dose or is it too much. http://www.homeherbs.com/1171669684267058/product/0/4-Saw_palmetto.html
here is a link... if you can check that for me. i m unable to take tinctures as it contain alcohol, which i cant consume bcoz of religious reasons same as with softgels that contain gelatin.
thanx for your advice about wild yam, yes i will include that as well i think a bit later.
abour milk thistle is 1 300mg capsule alright for cleansing
sorry for bothering you all again . thanx a lot for your time
Shaz
I am taking BO, so I wouldn't be much help, but wanted to say hi. I did learn alot about the herbal programs just by reading, and reading, and reading the old post and all the programs.
Well, I just wanted to welcome you and say good luck!
Those SP capsules could in my oppinion only be whole dried herb, because 320 mg is a MAX dose of extract, so it would be a too high dose. And the suggested use on the page says take 1 - 3 capsules a day. On the page, I think that extract refers to the tinctures.
300 mg of milk thistle/sylimarin per day would be ok for cleansing. Milk thistle is sometims warrned againt taking for prolonged periods of time because it may cause heir loss, but many girls took a small dose all the time while on their routine, as it's in Wonderup, and didn't have any problems. So the longer you take it, the smaller should be the dose. For doses in general, you can get a clue by looking into other products, for example WU contains a daily dose of MT 240 mg.
hi shaz i got my sp from holland and barrett, they have a sale on these days i got 200 capsules for £8.49 thats half the price of what they normally would have been. they do both vegetarian and non veg. i too buy the vegetarian ones. good luck. email me if any more advice. im from uk too.