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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does all that stuff actually make you feel better?[/quote]

I take it to address a problem, and yes, it alleviates the discomfort. My sleep was shit, with night sweats and frequent waking and frequent need to pee. My joints ached. I had brain fog. The hormones reduced those symptoms by 80%. Did my great grandmother wake up drenched twice a night, and sit staring for an hour at a pile of green beans needing to be canned? I assume she did...? [/quote]

She probably had a lot of that, but attitudes around menopause apparently significantly change how your subjective experience of the symptoms. If she didn't see it as a medical problem (which is less likely in a time when there's not any way of treating it), she probably experienced the symptoms as less significant than you did.[/quote]

Theres's plant medicinal that help with symptoms and women knew about them or shared them. [/quote]

Absolutely.  My grandmother was born in the 19th century.  She took aspirin for fever or aches.  Whiskey, honey and lemon for sore throat (works better than most cough syrups).  Hot steam for congestion.  Her great grandmother was a herbalist and midwife born in about 1820.  When she came to this country, she supported herself by helojmg with deliveries and selling (or bartering) herbal medicines for illnesses.  My grandmother said she once shared the recipe for some of those remedies with a 20th century pharmacist and he was very impressed and said it was basically the same as what he was selling.  
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