[AbiDrew85]

I am on the prowl for a replacement for Chinese Skullcap. If anyone sees anything about a "safe" herbal blocker for 17-beta-hsd type 3, let me know.

I REALLY don't want to resort to spironolactone, not only is that entirely a man-made chemical drug, but it's also a diuretic among many other things that I really don't need. Though it would also probably cut out the need for most of the other herbs I'm using unrelated to NBE: it's anti-hypertensive, and anti-high blood pressure...

But mainly, it's really not that safe. It does too many things and is hard to control, especially without medical oversight.

The problem with chinese skullcap? It can cause drowsiness among certain people, and usually those effects don't start to make themselves felt until after you've been on it a while. I've been on it a while. And I'm definitely starting to feel the drowsiness side effect.

So yeah. Please join me in being on the look out for herbs that are safe blockers of 17-beta-hsd type 3. If it blocks types 3 and 5 without blocking any of the others, it gets bonus points If it blocks any others besides 3 and 5 I'd have to look into it more, but I'd still be interested in hearing what you have on them.

DEFINITELY do NOT tell me about any that strongly block type 1. Type 1 is the estrone to estradiol type. And I've seen enough of those already!