Diet, exercise and learning how to properly relax are all natural remedies for PMS.

Diet, exercise and learning how to properly relax are all natural remedies for PMS.

The dietary guidelines for a woman with PMS is to reduce her sugar and salt intake which will reduce bloating, and swelling of hands and feet, relieve breast tenderness and help to prevent dizziness. She needs to increase her consumption of foods that contain potassium, such as beans, broccoli, and fish. She should eat small, frequent meals in order to help stablelize her blood sugar. She should also eliminate all caffeine from her diet. Caffeine aggravates anxiety, breast tenderness, and depression. A woman with PMS should increase her intake of fruits, beans, nuts, seeds, fish and vegetables. She should avoid alcohol and decrease her intake of fed meat or fatty foods.

Other natural remedies include using Ginkgo, vitamin E, Royal jelly, OPCs, Uva ursi, St. Johns wort, wild yam, dandelion, and progesterone cream. Reflexology and chiropractic services are also beneficial.