THOUGH we often neglect to mention it, you can get rid of fibroids with herbs. Today, many surgeries are being performed for fibroids because we have forgotten that man’s creator, Yahweh Elohim, has provided healing herbs for all our diseases.

No woman should be quick to dispense with her womb. It is a wonderful network of blood vessels and nerves that provides support to other internal organs and regulatory systems while facilitating sexual desires, dreams and life’s direction. The presence of fibroids can affect one’s personal and social life. It can lessen one’s self-esteem, damage one’s romantic life and cause inability to sustain pregnancy.

What are fibroids?

Fibroids are abnormal forms of muscle growth in the womb. Authors Johanna Skilling and medical doctor Nelson Stringer in their book

The First Year: Fibroids, say that increased oestrogen feeds your fibroid tumour and can lead to more severe bleeding, pain, fatigue and other symptoms.

It is true that we make fibroids from the foods we eat. The body’s oestrogen level is affected when we eat animal meat, dairy products, sugar, saturated fats, caffeine, alcohol, and other junk foods. Many of these foods are lacking in vitamin B and interfere with the body’s ability to regulate and metabolise hormones.

Many years ago, an elderly Maroon midwife taught me a secret formula for ridding the body of fibroids in three months. Herbs such as vervine and shepherd’s purse can arrest the growth of fibroids, balance and reprogramme hormone function, while bitter herbs encourage the removal of these cells from the body through the colon. I was amazed that such power existed in herbs until I started experiencing an increase in the size off my abdomen, heavy, painful periods, and I became fearful of leaving my house because I was never sure of when the bleeding or haemorrhagic episodes would start.

Surprisingly, there are many women who still do not know that the best way to treat fibroids is with herbs. Many have had theirs surgically removed and are now disappointed because they have regrown in fewer than six years.

“I jumped out of the frying pan into the fire,” one woman said while weeping eight months after her hysterectomy. “The steroids medication makes me feel fat, ugly and sad all the time. I now have a lot of problems relating to my husband and often wrestle with the desire to commit suicide.”

It is sad that many of us never learn until it is too late. Man’s body still remains fearfully and wonderfully made. Modern science and technology, even if given until eternity, will never be able to fully understand the intricate biological relationship between plants and man. For more than 6,000 years herbs have been protecting the womb and healing us of life-threatening illnesses like cancer and fibroids. It worked for me, I am confident it can work for you.

Maureen Minto is the chief naturopathic consultant at the Healthy Living Herbal Clinic and president of the Caribbean Natural Remedies Association. Contact her at 940-1197 or e-mail healthylivingjamaica@gmail.com