what are some natural remedies for period cramps?

i dont take pills, at all, and i want to know what some natural things i can eat are that will help with cramps. i know bananas help, but they dont always help me. i have also tried cinnamon tea… didnt work at all…. help!
1) i am afriad of doctors and hospitals
2) i need to know about something i can do, like, before school. cuz i cant exactly take a cat to school and just lay down with it in the middle of the day…

To natural health experts: what is the cheapest AND safest digestive cleanse?

I want to do a digestive cleanse that will dislodge any collected or undigested wastes left behind in my digestive. I have been having something that seems similar to a very mild "sprue" or malabsorption for at least 2 if not 3 months. So I figured that backed-up waste may be the issue. I dont’ really suffer from constipation, but do not take fiber as I used to do. I want to find the absolute cheapest BUT safest way to do it, possibly even using stuff around the house. Note: anyone who poo-poo’s (no pun intended! LOL) cleanses or any other natural health, please don’t respond.

Water retention? any natural remedies?

Ive recently increased my water intake. I am urinating alot but my hands and feet are still swollen. im wondering if theres something natural i can take or do? i prop my feet up when they swell to help ease ot because it is painful and annoying and i hold my hands above my head and that seems to help. but i cant alway prop my feet and hold my arms like that.

Trouble focusing on anything – natural remedies?

I was once diagnosed with ADD, then with Asperger’s, and at one point I decided that both of these diagnoses were the popular diagnoses at the time, according to what I’ve heard and read, so, for the most part I now choose to ignore them both, despite evidence that I may in fact have AS. There’ll always be something doctors can pin on anyone and say they need to buy meds for it.

But in my case, I’m a poor college student whose budget goes to books and food, and in my own case, I’d rather toss 0 for a year’s membership at a gym than the same dough for a couple months’ supply of whatever pills doc Smith has to push.

Either way, I have trouble focusing on anything – I can’t sit down and read a book for more than 20 minutes to save my life. If a movie’s over 2 hours long, I’ve taken 3 bathroom breaks and am sipping on my fourth 42-ounce refill while I twiddle my thumbs. Studying for anything, for me, is torture – long lectures, my bane.

Are there any ‘natural’ solutions for me?
Experience:
Doctors push pills. Most of my family is in medicine. A relative of mine, for example, denounced one of the products I had been put on (Provigil), though he himself sold it in several places.

I’m not looking for quack alternative medicines, I don’t need someone to tell me to detox my colon, burn incense, smoke grass, pray, and flog myself, but I’ll take some advice as far as altering my diet goes, or particular forms of exercise, as long as it doesn’t involve sprinkling magic powder in my orange juice.
I might try the ginkgo bilboa. But I simply can’t afford to visit psychiatrists, or try a handful of drugs at apiece each month.

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