MATRIA
Deep cultural lineage, weighed honestly
3 topics. None rests on strong human evidence. Ordered with the best evidenced first.
An ancient Mediterranean remedy with real, modest modern evidence
Chaste tree has been used for women's complaints since ancient Greece, and unusually for a traditional remedy, modern trials give it reasonable support for PMS and cyclical breast pain.
From power to punishment, how cultures separated menstruating women
Many cultures separated menstruating women, sometimes as sacred and powerful, sometimes as impure, and the same practice could mean opposite things depending on who was telling the story.
Beauty, status, and the poisons women have used to chase both
Women have shaped their skin and hair for thousands of years, and the history runs from genuinely useful practices to genuinely dangerous ones, including lead face paint and hair bleached with aged urine.