Holistic Treatment of Endometriosis and Fibroids

HOLISTIC TREATMENT OF ENDOMETRIOSIS AND FIBROIDS

By Dr S V Bulatov – registered homeopath

Endometriosis, sometimes called "endo," is a common health problem in women. It gets its name from the word endometrium, the tissue that normally lines the uterus (womb). Endometriosis happens when tissue similar to the lining of the uterus grows outside of the uterus and on other areas in the body where it doesn't belong.

Most often, endometriosis is found on the:

• Ovaries
• Fallopian tubes
• Tissues that hold the uterus in place
• Outer surface of the uterus

Other sites for growths can include the vagina, cervix, vulva, bowel, bladder, or rectum. Rarely, endometriosis appears in other parts of the body, such as the lungs, brain, and skin.

Based on data available up to early 2026, endometriosis remains a significant, underdiagnosed, and chronic disease affecting approximately 10% (190 million) of women of reproductive age and girls worldwide. It is increasingly recognized as a systemic and inflammatory condition rather than just a pelvic disease. The highest prevalence and incidence of endometriosis occur during reproductive years, peaking in the 30–34 age group. Patients still face a significant diagnostic delay, averaging 6.8 to 7 years globally, though this can exceed 10–15 years in some regions, such as parts of Africa. Roughly 50–80% of women with endometriosis experience chronic pelvic pain, and roughly 50% experience infertility. About 87% of women with endometriosis report some type of associated mental illness, such as depression or anxiety. In 2021, endometriosis and associated menstrual disorders accounted for high percentages of Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs), particularly for women aged 10–29. 

While laparoscopy has traditionally been the gold standard, there is a strong shift toward non-invasive imaging (specialist ultrasound and MRI) for diagnosis. A 2024-2025 survey showed that 93.6% of surveyed clinicians use non-invasive imaging to evaluate endometriosis before surgery. Ultrasound is the most used method (77.8%), followed by MRI (41.4%). 

Despite its prevalence, only a very small number of countries (e.g., France, Italy, Finland, Maldives) specifically mentioned endometriosis in their national reproductive health action plans as of 2024-2025. The burden is particularly high in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) where access to specialized care is limited. 

Research continues to focus on finding earlier, non-invasive diagnostic tools, such as microRNA biomarkers in plasma and saliva, though these are not yet ready for routine clinical use. 

Symptoms of endometriosis can include:

• Pain. This is the most common symptom. Women with endometriosis may have many different kinds of pain. These include:
  • Very painful menstrual cramps. The pain may get worse over time.
  • Chronic (long-term) pain in the lower back and pelvis
  • Pain during or after sex. This is usually described as a "deep" pain and is different from pain felt at the entrance to the vagina when penetration begins.
  • Intestinal pain
  • Painful bowel movements or pain when urinating during menstrual periods. In rare cases, you may also find blood in your stool or urine.
• Bleeding or spotting between menstrual periods. This can be caused by something other than endometriosis. If it happens often, you should see your doctor.
• Infertility (not being able to get pregnant).
• Stomach (digestive) problems. These include diarrhea, constipation, bloating, or nausea, especially during menstrual periods.

Endometriosis growths are benign (not cancerous). But they can still cause problems. These growths may swell and bleed in the same way the lining inside of the uterus does every month — during menstruation. This can cause swelling and pain because the tissue grows and bleeds in an area where it cannot easily get out of your body.

The growths may also continue to expand and cause problems, such as:

• Blocking the fallopian tubes when growths cover or grow into the ovaries. Trapped blood in the ovaries can form cysts.
• Inflammation (swelling).
• Forming scar tissue and adhesions (type of tissue that can bind the organs together). This scar tissue may cause pelvic pain and make it hard to get pregnant.
• Problems in the intestines and bladder.

Women are more likely to get endometriosis if:

• Never had children
• Menstrual periods last more than seven days
• Short menstrual cycles (27 days or fewer)
• A family member (mother, aunt, sister) with endometriosis
• A health problem that blocks the normal flow of menstrual blood from your body during your period

According to the conventional medicine and the latest scientific research no one knows for sure what causes this disease. Researchers are studying possible causes:

• Retrograde menstrual flow is the most likely cause of endometriosis. Some of the tissue shed during the period flows through the fallopian tube into other areas of the body, such as the pelvis. It is a common, often natural, phenomenon, with studies suggesting it affects 70% to 90% of individuals with a uterus. While usually asymptomatic, this backward flow is widely believed to contribute to the development of endometriosis. During a period, the uterus contracts to shed its lining. In retrograde menstruation, some tissue flows up the fallopian tubes and into the abdomen. The backward-flowing endometrial cells may stick to pelvic walls or organs, causing inflammation, pain, and scar tissue. It is important to note that while retrograde menstruation is a primary theory for the cause of endometriosis, some research suggests it may not be the sole cause, as some individuals without a uterus can still develop the condition. Sedentary life, overweight, constipation, prolapsed transverse colon/bladder/uterus, retroverted uterus and using tampons aggravate the retrograde menstrual flow.
• Genetic factors. Because endometriosis runs in families, it may be inherited in the genes.
• Immune system problems. A faulty immune system may fail to find and destroy endometrial tissue growing outside of the uterus. Immune system disorders and certain cancers are more common in women with endometriosis.
• Hormones. The hormone estrogen appears to promote endometriosis. Research is looking at whether endometriosis is a problem with the body's hormone system.
• Surgery. During a surgery to the abdominal area, such as a Cesarean (C-section) or hysterectomy, endometrial tissue could be picked up and moved by mistake. For instance, endometrial tissue has been found in abdominal scars.

It can't be prevented according to the conventional medicine. It can be reduced by lowering the levels of the hormone estrogen in the body. The estrogen helps to thicken the lining of the uterus during the menstrual cycle.

Holistic treatment for an estrogen dominance:

• The pear-shaped goddesses are born with an estrogen dominance. Their ovaries are the leading endocrine glands that determine their body shape and fat distribution for life. They need an individualized eating plan for life and sometimes a bioidentical progesterone cream.
• Lifestyle changes that support liver function and reduce fat cells, which produce and store estrogen.
• Eating cruciferous vegetables (broccoli, cabbage (not for O blood group), cauliflower (not for O blood group), Brussels sprouts (not for O blood group), mustard greens (not for O blood group), kale, radish, turnip, kohlrabi, daikon, horseradish, wasabi, collard greens, rocket, watercress, bok choy, rutabaga) contain Indole-3-Carbinol (I3C), which helps the liver break down estrogen into safe waste products.
• Consuming high fibre diet (fruits, salads, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, seeds, beans, lentils, peas, etc.) aids in binding estrogen in the digestive tract, facilitating its excretion.
• Stopping alcohol and sugar. Alcohol hinders the liver’s ability to detoxify estrogen, leading to higher levels, while high-sugar diets contribute to fat storage.
• Stopping all drinks with caffeine. Studies show that drinking more than one caffeinated drink a day, especially sodas and green tea, can raise estrogen levels.
• Stopping all soy products (soybeans (edamame), tofu, tempeh, miso, tamari, soy milk, soy sauce, soy mince, soy cubes, soy burgers, soy wors, etc.
• Regular individualised exercises like stretching, walking, dancing, swimming, cycling, spinning, tennis, strength training—helps lower body fat and reduce circulating estrogen.
• Stress management. Chronic stress increases cortisol, which can create a hormonal imbalance and contribute to high estrogen. Practice prayer, meditation, deep breathing, yoga, etc. Aim for 7–9 hours of sleep to support the body’s natural hormonal rhythms, as melatonin is crucial for balancing hormones.
• Avoiding synthetic xenoestrogens found in plastics. Minimize contact with chemicals that mimic estrogen. Use glass, ceramic, clay, stainless steel or cast iron pots/containers instead of plastic (BPA), and choose organic food to reduce pesticide exposure.

Pelvic exam. During a pelvic exam, the doctor will feel for large cysts or scars behind the uterus. Smaller areas of endometriosis are harder to feel.

Imaging test. The doctor may do an ultrasound to check for ovarian cysts from endometriosis. The doctor or technician may insert a wand-shaped scanner into vagina or move a scanner across the abdomen. Both kinds of ultrasound tests use sound waves to make pictures of the reproductive organs. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is another common imaging test that can make a picture of the inside of the body.

• Medicine. If the doctor does not find signs of an ovarian cyst during an ultrasound, he or she may prescribe medicine:
  • Hormonal birth control can help lessen pelvic pain during the period, however it has many short-and long-term adverse effects.
  • Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists block the menstrual cycle and lower the amount of estrogen the body makes. GnRH agonists also may help pelvic pain.
• If the pain gets better with hormonal medicine, there is probably endometriosis. However, these medicines work only as long as you take them. Once stop taking them, the pain may come back.
• Laparoscopy is a type of surgery that doctors can use to look inside the pelvic area to see endometriosis tissue. Surgery is the only way to be sure about endometriosis. Sometimes doctors can diagnose endometriosis just by seeing the growths. Other times, they need to take a small sample of tissue and study it under a microscope to confirm this.

There is no cure for endometriosis according to conventional medicine, but treatments are available for the symptoms and problems it causes. Talk to the doctor about treatment options.

If not trying to get pregnant, hormonal birth control is generally the first step in treatment. This may include:

• Extended-cycle (only a few periods a year) or continuous cycle (no periods) birth control is prescribed. These types of hormonal birth control are available in the pill or the shot and help stop bleeding and reduce or eliminate pain.
• Intrauterine device (IUD) to help reduce pain and bleeding. The hormonal IUD protects against pregnancy for up to 7 years. But the hormonal IUD may not help the pain and bleeding due to endometriosis for that long.

Hormonal treatment works only as long as it is taken and is best for women who do not have severe pain or symptoms.

If trying to get pregnant, the doctor may prescribe a gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonist. This medicine stops the body from making the hormones responsible for ovulation, the menstrual cycle, and the growth of endometriosis. This treatment causes a temporary menopause, but it also helps control the growth of endometriosis. Once stop taking the medicine, the menstrual cycle returns, but may have a better chance of getting pregnant.

Surgery

Surgery is usually chosen for severe symptoms, when hormones are not providing relief or if you are having fertility problems. During the operation, the surgeon can locate any areas of endometriosis and may remove the endometriosis patches. After surgery, hormone treatment is often restarted unless you are trying to get pregnant.

Other treatments, alone or with any of the treatments listed above, include:

• Pain medicine. For mild symptoms, the doctor may suggest taking over-the-counter medicines for pain. These include ibuprofen (Advil and Motrin) or naproxen (Aleve).
• Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies. Some women report relief from pain with therapies such as acupuncture, chiropractic care, herbs like cinnamon twig or licorice root, or supplements, such as thiamine (vitamin B1), magnesium, or omega-3 fatty acids.

For some women, the painful symptoms of endometriosis improve after menopause. As the body stops making the hormone estrogen, the growths shrink slowly. However, some women who take HRT may still have symptoms of endometriosis.

If the symptoms of endometriosis persist after menopause, the doctor will advise about treatment options.

Many women with endometriosis get pregnant. However, it might be harder to fall pregnant. Researchers think endometriosis may affect as many as one in every two women with infertility.

No one knows exactly how endometriosis might cause infertility. Some possible reasons include:

• Patches of endometriosis block off or change the shape of the pelvis and reproductive organs. This can make it harder for the sperm to find the egg.
• The immune system, which normally helps defend the body against disease, attacks the embryo.
• The endometrium (the layer of the uterine lining where implantation happens) does not develop as it should.

If you have endometriosis and are having trouble getting pregnant, talk to your doctor. He or she can recommend treatments, such as surgery to remove the endometrial growths.

Research shows a link between endometriosis and other health problems in women and their families. Some of these include:

• Allergies, asthma, and chemical sensitivities
• Autoimmune diseases, in which the body's system that fights illness attacks itself instead. These can include multiple sclerosis, lupus, and some types of hypothyroidism
• Chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia
• Certain cancers, such as ovarian and breast cancer

FIBROIDS

Uterine fibroids (leiomyomas) are common, noncancerous muscular tumors that grow in or on the uterus, often causing no symptoms but sometimes resulting in heavy, painful menstruation, pelvic pressure, and frequent urination.

 

Based on data available as of early 2026, uterine fibroids remain a highly prevalent, underdiagnosed condition affecting a significant portion of the global female population. 

Up to 70% of women worldwide develop uterine fibroids by the time they reach menopause. Highest incidence rates are found in women aged 30–50. The age-standardized incidence of uterine fibroids has been increasing, with a steady rise from 1990 to 2021, and this trend is projected to continue. The highest burden is experienced in South Asia, Tropical Latin America, Brazil, and Eastern Europe. In Africa, the incidence is estimated to be as high as 80%. Women of African ancestry experience a higher incidence, earlier age of onset, and greater tumor burden (number and size) compared to white counterparts. Uterine fibroids account for an average of 29% of hospitalizations for gynecological diseases in females aged 15–54. In the U.S. alone, the combined annual direct and indirect economic burden is estimated at nearly $34.4 billion. Intramural fibroids are the most common (approx. 72% of cases), driving the majority of therapeutic demand. GnRH agonists dominated the drug market in 2026 with a 54.18% share, driven by their effectiveness in rapid fibroid shrinkage. Non-surgical, oral medications and shrinkage-focused therapies are becoming more prevalent to reduce reliance on surgery. Factors contributing to the high incidence include obesity, high BMI, nulliparity, hypertension, early menarche, late menopause, and vitamin D deficiency.

 

 While the exact cause is unknown, they develop from a single stem cell in the uterine muscle and are influenced by hormones (estrogen and progesterone), genetic changes, and growth factors. Many women have no symptoms, but others experience heavy or prolonged menstruation, bleeding between periods, pelvic pain/pressure, backache, constipation, and frequent urination. Factors include being of reproductive age, African American descent (who develop them more frequently and at younger ages), family history, obesity, and vitamin D deficiency. Potential complications include anemia from heavy blood loss, infertility, and pregnancy-related issues. The treatment is with hormonal contraceptives, GnRH agonists to shrink fibroids, and iron supplements for anemia. Uterine artery embolization (blocking blood flow to the fibroid), radiofrequency ablation, or focused ultrasound. Myomectomy (removing only the fibroids) or hysterectomy (removing the entire uterus). 

Here are the most of the spiritual, mental, emotional and physical missing links about the cause and holistic treatment of endometriosis/fibroids:

Please, read, pray and meditate on the below Bible passages:

 

You shall not bow down to them or serve them. For I Yahweh your God am an impassioned God, visiting the guilt of the parents upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generations of those who reject Me,

1. לֹא־תִשְׁתַּחְוֶה לָהֶם וְלֹא תָעָבְדֵם כִּי אָנֹכִי יְהֹוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ אֵל קַנָּא פֹּקֵד עֲוׂן אָבֹת עַל־בָּנִים עַל־שִׁלֵּשִׁים וְעַל־רִבֵּעִים לְשֹׂנְאָי׃
2. ה

but showing kindness to the thousandth generation of those who love Me and keep My commandments.

3. וְעֹשֶׂה חֶסֶד לַאֲלָפִים לְאֹהֲבַי וּלְשֹׁמְרֵי מִצְוׂתָי׃
4. ו

 

13

You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not steal. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

לֹא תִּרְצָח׃ לֹא תִּנְאָף׃ לֹא תִּגְנֹב׃ לֹא־תַעֲנֶה בְרֵעֲךָ עֵד שָׁקֶר׃

י

27 You have heard that it was said to the ancients "Do not commit adultery." (Exo 20:14, Deu 5:18) 28 But I say to you, EVERYONE, looking at a woman to LUST after her has already committed ADULTERY with her in his HEART.

 

20 My son, pay attention to my words; stretch your ear to what I say; 21 let them not depart from your eyes; keep them in the center of your HEART; 22 for they are LIFE to those who find them, and HEALING to all his flesh.2 23 Keep your HEART with all diligence, for out of it are the ISSUES of life.

 

16 But I say, if you walk in the Spirit, the lust of the flesh will not overtake you. 17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are opposed to one another; so, you are not able to do as you desire. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under (the penalty of breaking) the Torah. 19 Now the works of the flesh are clearly revealed, which are: adultery, impurity, uncleanness, lustfulness, 20 idolatry, witchcraft, enmity, fighting, jealousies, anger, rivalries, stubbornness, divisions, heresies, 21 envying, murders, drunkenness, reveling, and things like these; of which I tell you beforehand, as I also said before, that the ones practicing such things will not inherit the kingdom of Elohim. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, 23 meekness, self-control. Against such things there is no instruction. 24 But the ones belonging to Messiah crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts4. 25 Let us therefore live by the Spirit, and surrender to the Spirit.

 

15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Messiah? Then taking the members of Messiah, shall I make them members of a harlot? Let it not be! 16 Or do you not know that he being joined to a harlot is one body? For He says, the two shall be into one flesh1. 17 But the one being joined to our Master is one spirit. 18 Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may do is outside the body, but he doing fornication sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which you have from Elohim, and you are not of yourselves? 20 You were bought with a price; then glorify Elohim in your body, and in your spirit, which belong to Elohim.

 

1 Now concerning the things which you wrote to me, it is proper for a man not to have intimacy with his wife at times; 2 nevertheless because of the danger of immorality, let every man hold to his own wife, and let every woman hold to her own husband. 3 Let the husband give to his wife the love that he owes her, and likewise the wife also to the husband. 4 The wife does not have authority of her own body, but the husband. And likewise, also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife. 5 Do not deprive one another, unless by agreement for a time, especially when you devote yourself to fasting and prayer. And then come together again, that Satan may not tempt you because of your physical passion.