Herb Pharm Chaste Tree Liquid Extract for Female Reproductive System Support - 1 Ounce (DCHASTE01)USDA Organic

Chasteberry extract has been a great tool in my toolbox for balancing hormones. I have to be careful to keep my carbohydrates under control, or it doesn't work, but it's been helping to balance my progesterone during a season of perimenopause. I take a dropperful with my morning coffee, or if I'm intermittent fasting, with some water first thing when I get up.

I was skeptical about starting this. I’ve heard mixed reviews. My estrogen and progesterone were both off. I was using the progesterone cream, but just couldn’t level out correctly.I was directed by a naturopath to start this. It’s been one month and I can say that I actually see a huge difference. I was constantly edgy and “seeing red”. I couldn’t grasp my emotions very well. So reflecting back, about 80% of the timeso far, my behaviors have been super cool, calm, and collected! I haven’t lashed out 😝I will definitely continue this!

I tried dried capsules for regulation purposes and was struggling with the side effects and high dose. I switched to this tincture so that I could go up and down on the dose, as needed. I’m currently taking a full dose in the morning and a 1/2 dose in the evening. May switch to 2 full doses. It has been quite effective and lengthened my cycle without the added side effects from the powder form. When I’m struggling with anxiety, lemonbalm has worked well with this. Planning on taking from day 5 until the end of my cycle. It helps balance estrogen dominance, improve progesterone levels, lengthens a short cycle, decreases high prolactin levels, and improves ovulation. My understanding is that it takes a few cycles to regulate and balance your hormones and that some side effects are normal. I’m very impressed and will stick with the tincture compared to other supplement brands of Vitex.

I was recommended this years ago to regulate my period and it worked like a charm. I've always taken it daily for several weeks (up to 2months) and then stopped and found that my periods would stay regular. I would return to vitex aka chaste tree berry whenever my periods started to go wonky again & every single time without fail, it worked. Then suddenly in my mid-thirties, I had random lower back pain and I thought it was sciatica which I had once in college from an exercise midadventure. The pain was different, deeper than I remembered, but it would have sudden & sharp onsets like sciatica so I thought this was the issue. I went to chiropractors, massage therapists, etc. all of which helped soothe my pain, but it wouldn't go away. My sister (an herbalist) suggested the back pain may be hormonal and asked if I had been taking my vitex and I said, no I hadn't taken it in over a year, my periods had been fine. She suggested I try it just to see and thank God she was right. It NEVER would have occurred to me that sudden back pain could be hormonal and so I tell every woman I ever meet about Vitex because you never know who else needs to hear about this! A lot of us women will experience back pain in our lives completely unaware that it's hormonal and if we don't tell each other, no one else will.

I've been taking this a month now with the hopes of balancing my hormones. I've been having a lot of issues with my mood lots of crying spells, abnormally high libido, severe mastalgia and hot flashes. I believe my progesterone is very low. I'm in my mid 30s but have PCOS...Now, I finally got a "natural" feeling period. I had all of "what I consider normal" period symptoms. Increased libido days before, breast enlargement, mild PMS and just feeling like a healthy woman again. It was a consistent bleed too it didn't skip or stop in the middle like most of my past cycles but I still had bad cramps on 2nd day. The sweating has stopped and High libido as well . I will stop after another 2 more months, as I was told it's not recommended for long term use.

If you have issues with yeast especially in your intimate areas, GET THIS! Even the strongest of yeast can’t go against this! Now I will say the taste 10000% is NOT the best..but for what it does? It’s worth it. I mix it in chlorophyll water (does not make it taste any better) but it’s good for the health. Mix it in juice if it helps but ima soldier I can take it. The healthiest stuff usually tastes bad. Stop wasting time going to the dr & taking difulcan & monistat, get this chaste tree tincture & a pau d’arco tincture & limit carbs n sugar & watch how better you’ll be. It worked for me in like a week!

I may update my review after some time has passed but I wanted to let others in my situation know that it seemed to help with a pro-longed heavy period (3 months long). I was taking other supplements (cod liver oil, vitamin K, progesterone cream) but there were no changes for over a month. It finally stopped after about a week of taking this but I had to cut back on the dosing due to the insanely intense cramps I was getting after starting this. I went from a full dropperful morning and night to about a 1/4 dose each evening. I read somewhere that it should be taken in the morning but I couldn't afford to miss more work if I were to get cramps from it early in the day, but sometimes a night dose would bring cramps the next morning. Each dose didn't cause cramping but when it happened, it was debilitating and sometimes lasted all day.I want to continue to take this to balance my hormones to hopefully end these unpredictable, heavy, sometimes never ending periods, but I've laid off this since the bleeding stopped. It tastes terrible so if I order more to work on my hormonal balance, I'll probably get capsules instead.3 stars for believing that it had some role in stopping or at least slowing down the bleeding (it officially stopped the first day I took Slow Flow) - leaving off 2 stars for the uncomfortable cramps and having to miss some work days. If I resume taking it and if it regulates my cycle after a few months, I will change my rating.