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Impotence is an inability to achieve or maintain an erection for a long enough period of time for sexual intercourse to take place. Also called Erectile Dysfunction and Sexual Dysfunction.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) refers to a collection of symptoms that appear due to irregular muscular contractions of the digestive tract, which cause food accumulation, leading in turn to a build-up of toxins and mucus in the intestines.
Menorrhagia is a condition of menstruation when there is very heavy loss of blood for a variety of causes not always evident. It may be accompanied by dysmenorrhoea (painful periods).
Hot flushes and night sweats represent the most common and often most distressing symptom of the menopause, but are not the only major problem to consider.
Although the two gastrointestinal conditions have similar causes and treatments, heartburn and indigestion differ in their location of symptoms. Heartburn occurs in the chest and oesophagus, while indigestion affects the lower abdomen.
This condition is where there is a build-up of deposits on the inside of the artery walls. This in turn causes them to narrow and harden making it increasingly more difficult for the blood to travel round the body.
Haemorrhoids, also known as piles, are swollen veins around the anus and in the rectum, which can be either internal or external or both.
Reactions and symptoms of food intolerance are usually triggered by food that is ingested frequently, with chronic or recurrent symptoms.
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