Richard Whelan ~ Medical Herbalist

Take some Vitex herb once a day very day for a few months, this is also commonly called Chasteberry. For more info and the practical ‘how to’ you should read about it in the herbal A-Z. You need to get good quality herb but you don’t need much of it. One important thing you should know is that for most women Vitex should not be taken for more than 6 months. Even if it works beautifully at first, unless you stop if somewhere between 3 and 6 months after you started it then the effects seem to wear off and the problem comes back.
Take some B vitamins every day for a few months, these are very readily obtained but make sure they are turning your urine bright yellow 2-4 hours after you take it otherwise your product is too weak and being metabolised too quickly.
Take some omega-3 fish oil every day. An imbalance of fatty acids in the body seems to drive PMT up. Everyone should eat fish every day or take omega-3 every day. Depending on your size and weight, somewhere between 2 and 4 thousand mgs a day (2-4 capsules)

This is of course all ridiculously simple (and cheap) and any herbalist reading this who have similarly invested large segments of their lives into unravelling the mystique of the female reproductive system will be understandably rolling their eyes by now. I know, believe me I know, given how complex women’s hormones are we really should have to use much more medicine and make much more of a fuss but the simple fact is that Vitex, b-vits and Omega-3and works well in the majority of cases. Most women who I see on follow up for something else don’t even remember to mention it unless I ask, the PMT just wasn’t an issue any longer.