Black Cohosh: Your Best Friend for Menopause?

A Bite-Size Read for Your Health and Your Waistline

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Have you heard of black cohosh (pronounced koh-haw-shh)? How about black bugbane, black snakeroot, fairy candle, rheumatism weed, or battleweed? All of these refer to a perennial shrub-like plant that grows in the forests of the eastern United States and Canada. North American indigenous populations used black cohosh to help with pain…