Wild Yam has a long history of use in dealing with a variety of problems associated with hormonal changes in women. In countries where Wild Yams are consumed as part of an everyday diet, women rarely experience menopausal problems, and the phrase 'hot flush' does not exist!

Wild Yam (Dioscorea Velosa) has become widely used as a natural hormonal supplement. It's value lies in the close resemblance of the phyto-hormones to hormones found in woman physiology. The body is able to synthesize its essential hormonal chemistry from the building blocks provided by wild yam supplements.

Wild yam is the most common source for diosgenin and its related plant saponins. In order to make a product based on diosgenin, the phyto-hormonal chemistry must be extracted from the plant source.

Diosgenin alone is not the only component extracted from the yam. The purpose of wild yam supplementation is to provide the body with the complex building blocks it requires to manufacturing its own hormonal chemistry. One should not consider a wild yam cream to be just a progesterone supplement. While products exist that are just that, they are inferior! Products that supply nutrients that are precursor to progesterone production are what the body needs to regain and maintain hormonal balance.

The endocrine system is a marvelous and miraculously complex system. It invokes multiple sources of stimulation and many levels of feedback. Many different organs and tissues in the body make hormonal requests. Many factors are integrated together to produce necessary hormones. The body maintains a delicate balance for good health. The preservation of normal healthy cycles of the body is the result of this hormonal activity.

When properly functioning, the endocrine system utilizes a myriad of different protein complexes in the form of enzymes, co-factors, hormones, and hormonal building blocks. Each of these is essential in the steps producing the correct homeostatic balance. If any one factor is missing, the body may fail to incorporate a path of hormonal stimulation, feedback, and control. It is for these reasons that one should avoid using wild yam products, which have been reduced to only diosgenin. The other plant sterols, enzymes and protein factors may be just as critical, or even more so for a given individual.

USP or "natural" progesterone is synthesized diosgenin - a product which has none of the other essential plant sterols and saponins. To make matters worse, "natural" progesterone products are actually drugs. Giving women progesterone will in many cases relieve symptoms associated with progesterone deficiencies. But progesterone in the blood stream is a signal to the brain to stop producing hormones that stimulate the ovaries to function properly. By supplementing a woman directly with progesterone, or any other hormone in this chain, the delicate balance of stimulation and feedback is disturbed. While the symptoms of progesterone deficiency may be alleviated, there will be side effects resulting from the disturbance of the entire reproductive hormone system. This means the ovaries get weaker and using synthetic hormones injures their functions.

The effectiveness of wild yam varies depending on the ways of taking it. If one simply eats wild yam, the digestive system reduces it to basic components that are not much usable by the body. Only a small fraction is absorbed into the blood stream and delivered to the cells in a form useful to the endocrine system.

The only other common approach is in the form of a skin cream. The transdermal transport mechanism is far superior because it does not chemically alter the components of the wild yam. It is essential that the skin cream is one that readily absorbs, and that it effectively carries the phyto-chemistry through the dermal layer and delivers it to the blood stream for transport to the ovaries.

MoonRise is such a cream - carefully constructed and very effective. This supreme product is made of highest quality wild yam extract, enriched with more than 20 other useful ingredients. Amongst others, it contains:
- herbs like Cimicfuga and Siberian Ginseng - for amelioration of PMT and regulating the menses,
- essential fatty acids from Evening Primrose, Almond and Jojoba oils - for better skin and metabolism,
- Aloe vera extract & Avocado oil for soothing the skin,
- premium quality Bulgarian Rose Oil for exquisite aroma, etc.

Application of MoonRise is simple and flexible. The cream is easily absorbed and therefore Wild Yam is up to ten times more effective than if taken orally. It leaves the skin clean and soft, like it used to be when you were 16.

MoonRise is excellent for any woman. It can be used since puberty. Women who can not get pregnant could hope to "heal", especially if combining MoonRise with Fatty acids complex and Algae/Green Energy.

The only significant measure of a wild yam creams efficacy is in how it effects the lives of the women who use it. In this respect, MoonRise is clearly a leader. We have very positive experience with MoonRise. Feedback from women whose entire lives have been changed by it is continually received.