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illions of women suffer from endometriosis, and their symp-toms range from occasional discomfort to severe pain, alongwith other indicators that can persist for long periods and seriously impairtheiroverallwell-beingandtheirfamily,professional,andso-cial lives.If you are one of these women,you,like many others,may have found that conventional medical treatments offer limited relief at best.
The Endometriosis Natural Treatment Program
will help youtake control of your endometriosis. This book focuses less on theproblems of the condition than on the solutions,on making a seriesof slow,steady improvements that you yourself control.Thetreatmentprogrampresentedherewasdesignedbyoneoftheauthors,ValerieAnnWorwood,acomplementary-healthpractitionerand clinical aromatherapist who has shown that endometriosis canbe treated in the context of a professional,holistic,complementary-medicine setting.For more than twenty years,she has used the planto treat women of various ages and diverse cultures.All have experi-enced positive results, to differing degrees. Some followed the pro-gram to obtain relief while waiting for surgery,only to be told whenthe surgery took place that their endometriosis could no longer befound. Women with irregular menstrual cycles have found that thetreatment plan has brought them into a regular cycle. It is not un-usual for a woman following this program to become pregnant after
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having been told she was unlikely to conceive. These benefits stemfromusingthiscompletelynatural,noninvasive,simplesetof lifestylechanges and procedures that can be carried out at home.A brief version of this program appeared in
The Fragrant Phar-macy 
(publishedin
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intheUnitedStatesas
The Complete Book of Essential Oils andAromatherapy 
),abookthathassubsequentlybeentranslatedintoseverallanguages.Wecannotknowhowmanywomenwith endometriosis have used the information in these books andbenefited from it, but correspondence from all over the world hasshownthatmanywomenhavesucceededinusingthesuggestionstotreat their own endometriosis.In
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, Valerie Ann Worwood adapted her treatment methodsforaresearchtrialwithpractitionersregisteredwiththeInternationalFederation of Aromatherapists and women from the U.K. NationalEndometriosis Society. The trial set out to test the effectiveness of the method on women with endometriosis in reducing pain andother symptoms, as well as in improving general well-being. Theparticipants in the study were carefully selected to exclude all othermedical conditions and were precluded from using any other formof professionalorself-helptreatmentduringthetwenty-fourweeksof the trial: they could take no medications, nutritional supplements,orherbs,andcouldnotuseessentialoilsorundergoacupunctureorothercomplementarytreatmentsthatmightconfusethetrialresults.Even though the trial used only one of the components of the self-help program given in this book,the results were impressive.The program outlined on the following pages can be safely usedwithothermedicaltreatmentsandismuchmorecomprehensivethanthe version used in the research trial and the information providedin previous publications. This book presents and explains the many toolsavailabletowomenwhowanttousenaturalmethodstoreducethedebilitatingsymptomsofendometriosis.Itofferspreciseessential-oil formulations, self-massage techniques, and bath routines that,whencarriedoutathome,appeartobeeffectiveinthetreatmentand
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