Natural Remedies for Irregular Periods

Of all the menstrual problems, irregular periods top the list that many women suffer from.

Irregular periods can be causes by hormonal imbalance, unhealthy weight loss, anorexia or bulimia, stress or other reasons.

Natural Remedies for Irregular Periods

If you’re concerned about irregular periods, we recommend that you track your menstrual cycles for a few months while trying to understand what causes it and find a proper solution.

In this post, we’d like to share a few natural remedies that can help you regulate your periods naturally.

1. Ginger

Gingerol, a main element present in ginger, helps to treat irregular periods.

It’s an anti-inflammatory agent, which efficiently reduces the inflammation of pelvic tissues and organs — one of the main reasons for irregular, heavy and painful periods.

Easy Tips:

Take a ginger supplement, add ginger to your cooking, or chew a few dried crystallized ginger slices as a snack.

2. Lemon

Lemon is rich in vitamin C, which helps improve the body’s efficiency to absorb iron. For this reason, lemon is helpful in easing the problem of irregular periods caused by iron deficiency.

Easy Tips:

Make a lemonade with honey, fresh lemon or crystallized lemon.  It’s yummy and healthy.

3. Spinach

Spinach is rich in iron. Like lemon, it also helps correct irregular periods caused by iron deficiency.

Easy Tips:

Add spinach to your salad or omelette. Or use pure spinach powder to make smoothies. 

4. Cinnamon

According to traditional Chinese medicine, Cinnamon offers a warming effect on the body.

It is therefore helpful in regulating menstrual cycles and lessening menstrual cramps due to a “cold uterus.”

It also increases the production of progesterone, which helps correct menstrual irregularities caused by progesterone deficiency.

Additionally, cinnamon contains an ingredient called hydroxychalcone, which helps to regulate the insulin levels. It’s therefore an excellent remedy for irregular periods caused by blood sugar imbalances.

Easy Tips:

Add ground cinnamon to your coffee, toast, or English muffin. 

5. Honey

Honey contains soluble enzymes like vitamin, invertase, potassium salts, digestible sugars and organic acids that trigger metabolism and balance the hormone levels.

Irregular periods are automatically corrected when the hormonal levels are balanced.

Easy Tips:

Honey is so versatile and nutritious. Substitute everything sugar with pure, raw and unfiltered honey.

6. Aloe Vera

Aloe vera is another natural hormone regulator which treats irregular menstrual cycles.

Easy Tips:

You can consume it every day before breakfast. Just mix distilled aloe vera juice with water and one teaspoon of honey. Take it for three cycles, except during your periods.

7. Papaya

Unripe papaya works as a great emmenagogue, which provokes menstruation by causing the uterine muscle fibers to contract.

It’s particularly effective for irregular menstrual cycles associated with stress or during perimenopause.

8. Turmeric

This is another warming herb that is helpful in correcting the menstrual cycles.

Its emmenagogue, antispasmodic and anti-inflammatory properties help to stimulate menstrual flow and reduce menstrual pain.

Easy Tips:

Take a Turmeric and Ginger supplement to reduce inflammation and oxidative stress. Or add organic turmeric powder to your cooking. 

9. Fennel

Fennel also has emmenagogue and antispasmodic properties, thus promoting menstrual flow and relieving menstrual cramps.

It also helps to balance estrogen and progesterone hormone levels.

Easy Tips:

Chew some fennel seeds after each meal like the Indians do. It’s good for your digestion and your cycles.

10. Include a Hormone Balancing Diet

Eat a diet full of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, legumes, oily fish and seeds. A healthy diet rich in nutrients helps to balance your hormones and encourage regular periods.

Check out my tips on healthy diet.

11. Maintain a Healthy Body Weight

Those who are overweight or underweight tend to have irregular menstrual cycles.

For a woman who is underweight and has irregular periods, she may suffer from estrogen deficiency. As a result, her body may not have enough fat reserve to support a pregnancy. 

And for a woman who is overweight, she may have an elevated estrogen level – a common cause of irregular periods.

12. Take Chateberry

Researchers believe that chasteberry increases the release of LH (luteinizing hormone) from the pituitary, which raises progesterone and normalizes the second half of the menstrual cycle. It may also reduce prolactin, which suppresses the production of progesterone.

Even though the exact cause is still unknown, chasteberry has been proven to help treat low progesterone in more than 60 years of clinical research, including 5 randomized trials. And in Germany, it’s an approved remedy for menstrual irregularity, PMS, and breast pain.

If you want to give chasteberry a try, consider a chasteberry supplement or Fertility Blend, a proprietary formula of chasteberry and agnolyt (one of the best-known exacts of chasteberry). Dr. Sara Gottfried, an expert in women’s health, recommends this formulation after years of testing products, following studies, and experimenting the benefits for her patients.

Hope you find these remedies helpful. Keep them in your kitchen. They can prevent you from depending on medicines to cure irregular periods.

And we’d love to hear from you if you have any other tips to share!

Surela Mukherjee is a passionate blogger, a foodie and a fitness freak. She is a content writer who loves writing about beauty, lifestyle, food, health and wellness. She believes in spreading a word of happiness through her writings.

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