Herbal Therapy for Women by Elisabeth Brooke

Author:Elisabeth Brooke
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: AEON Books

ENDOMETRIOSIS

Endometriosis is when endometrial tissue (such as that which lines the womb) is found growing outside the uterus. No one is quite sure how this comes about, but there are several factors to be considered.

Firstly, this is a disease of ‘civilization’, that is to say of the twentieth century. It is commonest in white women who delay child-bearing, begin sexual intercourse late, have low fertility or are sterile. For this reason, it is thought it might have a connection with prolonged ovarian function, that is, menstrual cycles uninterrupted by pregnancy. In countries where women tend to have several children and begin at a young age – China, India, Africa and Latin America – the disease is rare.

There is a theory that instead of flowing out of the womb, blood passes out through the fallopian tubes into the pelvic basin and ‘seeds’ itself there. Endometrial tissue outside the womb behaves like that within it, in the sense that it has a cycle of increasing and then shedding. It therefore responds to hormonal secretion and declines in pregnancy. It may swell and produce a mass which is thought to be a cancerous growth, but turns out to be endometriosis.

Endometriosis never occurs before puberty, nor after the menopause, and is most common when the hormone secretions are at their height, in the twenties and thirties.

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