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【科普】绿薄荷茶可用于治疗女性轻度多毛症
Mild Hirsutism Could Be Treated With Spearmint Tea
Women with hirsutism grow hair on their faces, breasts and stomachs. This can cause great distress. The hair grows because they have abnormally high levels of the 'masculinising' androgen hormones. Androgens travel around the body in the blood stream, and a key way of treating hirsutism is to reduce the level of these androgens.
Data just published in Phytotherapy Research shows that drinking two cups of spearmint tea a day for five days could reduce the level of androgens in women with hirsutism.
"Current therapies use either oral contraceptives to suppress androgen production, or medications such as spironolactone that prevent the body responding to androgen - but this study shows that spearmint could be a good natural alternative for women who have mild symptoms," says researcher Mehmet Numan Tamer who acts as spokesperson for the research team. The research was carried out at the Suleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey.
In the trials the herbal tea was made by pouring a cup (250ml) of boiling water over 1 heaped teaspoon (5g) of dried leaves, and leaving it for 5 to 10 mins.
The team decided to study the effects of spearmint on hirsutism because of previous reports that extracts of the spearmint plant (Mentha spicata Labiatae) could reduce libido in men. A possible reason for this reduced libido could have been that spearmint was reducing their androgen level. Other research had shown that these extracts reduced androgen levels in rats.
"We now need to do further studies to test the reliability of this finding, and to see the extent to which the reduced androgens do help women with mild hirsutism," says Professor Tamer. 本人已认领该文编译，48小时后若未提交译文，请其他战友自由认领。 初译：
Mild Hirsutism Could Be Treated With Spearmint Tea
绿薄荷茶可用于治疗女性轻度多毛症
Women with hirsutism grow hair on their faces, breasts and stomachs. This can cause great distress. The hair grows because they have abnormally high levels of the 'masculinising' androgen hormones. Androgens travel around the body in the blood stream, and a key way of treating hirsutism is to reduce the level of these androgens.
女性多毛症表现为面部、胸部和腹部长毛。患者为此承受着巨大的精神痛苦。女性多毛症源于女性体内的雄性激素水平过高。雄性激素循环于血液系统，治疗多毛症关键在于降低这些雄性激素的水平。
Data just published in Phytotherapy Research shows that drinking two cups of spearmint tea a day for five days could reduce the level of androgens in women with hirsutism.
发表于《本草疗法研究》中的最新研究显示，多毛症女性每天饮用两杯绿薄荷茶，持续5 天就可以降低其体内的雄性激素水平。
"Current therapies use either oral contraceptives to suppress androgen production, or medications such as spironolactone that prevent the body responding to androgen - but this study shows that spearmint could be a good natural alternative for women who have mild symptoms," says researcher Mehmet Numan Tamer who acts as spokesperson for the research team. The research was carried out at the Suleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey.
该研究开展于土耳其伊斯帕尔塔的 萨利曼·德米雷尔（Suleyman Demirel ）大学。研究小组发言人穆罕默德·努曼·塔梅尔说道，"目前的疗法不是使用口服避孕药抑制雄性激素的分泌，就是使用螺内酯之类的药物，阻止身体对雄性激素作出反应。而此研究发现，绿薄荷茶可以作为治疗女性轻度多毛症的天然好选择"。
In the trials the herbal tea was made by pouring a cup (250ml) of boiling water over 1 heaped teaspoon (5g) of dried leaves, and leaving it for 5 to 10 mins.
研究所用的绿薄荷茶其沏制过程如下：一茶匙(5 克)的干茶叶、一杯热开水(250 ml)、沏泡时间5到10分钟。
The team decided to study the effects of spearmint on hirsutism because of previous reports that extracts of the spearmint plant (Mentha spicata Labiatae) could reduce libido in men. A possible reason for this reduced libido could have been that spearmint was reducing their androgen level. Other research had shown that these extracts reduced androgen levels in rats.
之前有报道称，绿薄荷的提取物能够降低男性性欲，而这也成为此次研究绿薄荷茶治疗多毛症的动机来源。绿薄荷可能是通过降低雄性激素水平从而达到降低性欲的目的。另一个研究也显示，这些绿薄荷提取物可以降低老鼠的雄性激素水平。
"We now need to do further studies to test the reliability of this finding, and to see the extent to which the reduced androgens do help women with mild hirsutism," says Professor Tamer.
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