Assessing the Therapeutic Potential of a Traditional Botanical Remedy for Menstrual Pain: Insights From a Prospective Observational Analysis

Exclusion Criteria

• •Secondary dysmenorrhea (i.e. in endometriosis, adenomyosis, urogenital malformations)
• •Currently taking, or had taken in the past two months, hormonal forms of birth control
• •Dysmenorrhea reasonably suspected to be due to a IUD
• •Prior or current liver or kidney disease, inflammatory bowel disease, reproductive cancer (uterine, ovarian, etc.)
• •Personal history of known hypersensitivity to the used drug or its ingredients or to drugs with a similar chemical structure
• •Other diseases that do not allow the subject to assess the nature and scope as well as possible consequences of the clinical study
• •Pregnant or breastfeeding women
• •Signs that the subject is unlikely to comply with the protocol (e.g., unwillingness to cooperate)
• •Alcohol/drug abuse
• •Non-German speaking patients (Patient information is only available in German)