If there was a formula the world needed it would be Tonic F. It seems to me that when women walk into the clinic and I start going over health questions, the question comes up of "do you have any menstrual problems?". 90% of the time they say "oh no, no I'm normal" and I have learned to ask "what is normal?" "Well, I feel a little bloated a couple of weeks before…" Some of them will describe breast tenderness, a little before, a little moody, a little cranky… you know the syndrome that when I was a kid they called it 'cramps', now they call it P.M.S. and women have bought into the idea that this is normal, well it's not. It absolutely is not. Menstrual cycles should come and go and there should not be any noticeable signs except for the flow. Tonic F  will take and change that flow, it will increase it where it needs to be increased, it will decrease it when it needs to be decreased…it will normalize it. It will help take care of the cramps the moodiness & the breast tenderness, associated with this so I tell people it takes three months. It's not like having a sore thumb, you can tell every day that a sore thumb is getting better. With your cycle you can't tell if you're getting better or not until you begin to flow, so it takes two or three months to notice some changes. Then about the fourth or fifth month they could have a cycle that they describe is from hell. What is happening is that a lot of women's female function  has become so degraded that they are ovulating on one side. The body heals that one side first & normal female function returns to the one side. Then the body decides to work on the other ovary  so they could go through the process of  another few months of toning up that  side. Once they get normal female function for two or three months they can discontinue the formula, if the symptoms come back they need to continue it for a few more months. With this formula it is important to take it daily not just during menstruation. My definition of normal?: No pain, no discomfort, the flow is proper it's not too heavy, it's not too light. What we are doing is not causing a dependency but we are trying to see if those deficiencies that have been lacking in our diet have normalized themselves and have changed enough so that normal female function can occur. Tonic F  will do this. There are other wonderful female  formulas like Her Mone but it  is more specific for other things.  Traditional use of the contents: Cranesbill Rt. has been used in profuse menstruation, & water weight gain. Tansy is for retention of menstruation, & also cramping. Raspberry Lf. is used as a tonic in most female problems. Pennyroyal is for nausea & cramping. Uvi Ursi is for water retention.