Often a woman would like to change the date of her next period, due to different reasons like: an important trip, event, project or other. However, it is not easy at all to accelerate the menstrual cycle, but there are a few natural methods that can be very helpful.
Listed below are some home remedy tips on how to speed up your period without taking any chemical substances or pills.
Warning:
Always consult your doctor before undertaking any natural treatment and remember to discuss with him the reason why you want to accelerate your menstrual cycle.
Hot Bath Tub
Hot bath tub is one of the most popular methods to speed up your period. Soaking in hot water increases the body heat. The heat relaxes your abdominal muscles, and at the same time encourages dilatation and increases the blood flow from your uterus.
Heating Pads and Hot Packs
Heating pads and hot packs work just like hot water – they produce heat in the body, which in turn dilates the blood vessels, and encourages blood flow.
Vitamin C
Larger doses of vitamin C can starve the uterus of progesterone, which in turn helps to break down the uterus walls. In this manner the arrival of the menstrual period is accelerated.
Drink a lot of water while consuming Vitamin C and consult your doctor when taking larger doses of any kind of vitamin.
Physical Exercise
Physical exercise is another useful method to accelerate your period. It improves circulation and it can speed up the occurrence of menstrual bleeding, while alleviating menstrual cramps and bloats. However, make sure not to exaggerate, for excessive exercise may cause you to skip your periods.
Acupuncture and Acupressure
Acupuncture and acupressure can stimulate specific points associated with circulation and blood flow. They can help to strengthen the reproductive organs, making them function better.
However, these two techniques may also stop your menstrual cycle completely, and it is therefore recommended to talk to your therapist, and doctor, before starting acupressure or acupuncture treatments.
Spending Time with Other Women
It is well known that when you associate frequently with other women, you end up getting periods around the same time. If your friends are expecting their period earlier than you, try staying with them as mush as possible.
Food Tips
- First of all, reduce, or completely avoid, salty foods. Excess sodium may cause fluid retention, which in turn can make worse your menstrual symptoms, such as bloating and swelling.
- Eat food that contains high amounts of carotene, such as papaya, pumpkin, carrots, apricots, peaches, spinach, etc. They will help to prepone your period date.
- Combine 1 teaspoon of jaggery powder with ½ a teaspoon of turmeric powder, and dissolve the mixture in a glass of water. Drink it once or twice a day, for about 15 days prior to the expected date of your period. Jaggery, and turmeric, both have the ability to increase body heat, and therefore help to prepone the menstrual cycle.
- Eat a lot of red meat – it also has the ability to produce heat in the body, and therefore speed up your period.
Avoid Stressful Situations
Stress may influence body’s hormone levels and delay your period, causing it to arrive much later than expected. So, make sure to keep your stress levels to a minimum and practice some relaxing techniques.
Herbal Teas
There are many herbs that have the ability to induce menstruation. These herbs are called emmenagogues and they work by stimulating the reproductive system and the blood flow. However, they may affect your hormone levels and cause many other side effects ranging from mild to severe. It is therefore recommended to consult your doctor before taking any of them.
The mildest of these herbs are Chamomile, Parsley, Ginger, Yarrow, Feverfew, Rosemary, Sage and Red Raspberry Leaf. Other stronger herbs include Black Cohosh, Juniper berry, Pennyroyal, Angelica, Savin, Rue, Asafetida, Queen Annes Lace seeds or root and Tansy.
If you have any other natural and effective tips on how to speed up your period, please share them with us in the comment section below! They will certainly help other women a lot.
11 thoughts on How to Speed Up Your Period
Very Helpful tips, I’m going to Vegas in a couple of days and I started to feel like I’m getting my period any time soon, I don’t quite remember when I got it last month so I’m not 100% sure if i’ll be getting it this week or next.
Ok well ive drank cinnamon tea ginger tea and parsley bath in hit water with salt and it still not here im scared i could be pregnant im only 15 so i cant really tell me parents and im just hoping you have any other remedies i dont have vitamin C but i have eaten alot of oranges
Do your parents know you are sexually active? Or have you not told them anything?
I’ve fingerd myself and googled it and the results I found were positive. You need sperm to get pregnant and I have not come into contact with a guy sexually. I am really worried cause my period it due soon and I can’t remember the date my period was last month. I have drank all sorts from normal tea and coffee to green tea to help speed up my motabolism. I’m scared and need advice. I live in a foster home and there’s no one I can trust in to talk to. Help me please give me some advice! I need a helping hand.
I get abnormal periods and I finger myself as well. I think you should relax because as long as you haven’t had sexual contact with a man you are all good. Calm down!!!!!
hope this helps.
Brooke, the ONLY way for you to get pregnant is from a male’s penis being inside of your vagina (sorry to be so graphic, but nature is very specific). You’re responding to natural urges in a completely safe manner. You can always contact Planned Parenthood if you have questions about sex and pregnancy. You can even get birth control for free there with no parent consent if you ever find yourself in a relationship you think is leading to sex, although I am not encouraging this at all. Knowledge is power. Be safe, sweetheart.
Last night for some stupid reason i let my boyfriend stick it in once, in and out, bare. He had asked once before and i very sternly disagreed. I dont know why I said yes this time but im scared that i might be pregnant because he has precum frequently. I have been talking to him all day trying to figure out ways to kill it and make my period come soon. My last period ended on the 30th of last month though so i dont know if i should start using the vitamin c abortion option quiet yet. He is going to try to get ahold of plan b onestep
I really need help and obviously can’t tell my parents either. Im 15 he is 16, we are in Kansas and technically us having sex is illegal and my parent know we have had sex but when we actually had sex we used a condom and everything was fine, but i can’t have a baby, i will do everything and anything to prevent it or he will be put in jail. And I love him sooo i cant ket this happen…HELP
Sarah… As scary as it seems you need to Go talk to your parents. If you think your old enough for sex then you need to be responsable enough to deal with the results.
And don’t let any man put his dick anywhere near you without a condom over it. Your the one who can get pregnant so guard yourself girl.
i need help… i was on a chatting site where this guy asked me to do something sexual, so i pointed the camera down at my vagina and began shoving a white board maker in and out of me, and i got really into it and i didnt notice until like 10 minutes later that the cap came off and the marker was rubbing inside of me, now when i get my period it smells bad and i am scared please help :(
I really need help on how to get my period back, I haven’t started for nearly 3 month now n I’m really worried n my mum n sisters are too. Plz tell the way which would me start my period n won’t affect me in long term. I’m 15. I will be really happy of u can help me n give so advise I also write back if the trips worked. Really really need HELP!!!!! Thanks;)