I think I speak for the majority when I say that we've all experienced period pain in some form or another, whether it's a very real, physical pain from inside you, or someone you know is in agony thanks to the sensation of a gremlin ripping things to pieces inside their uterus.

We try to do anything to relieve symptoms - hot water bottles, herbal teas, medication, smearing the menstrual blood on our face.

Wait, hang on - back it up. Menstrual blood on the face? Doesn't sound appealing to us but it definitely does to Yazmina Jade Adler.



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Former hairdresser Yazmina, 26, appeared on an SBS show called Medicine or Myth? where she shared her monthly ritual to relieve her body from the pain of periods - which is fucking excruciating, btw. But maybe not enough to rub the bodily fluid on our skin.

When she appeared on the programme - where a panel of medical experts aim to discover if diverse health remedies can be successful treatments - Yazmina said: "By doing this, it has relieved the discomfort."

Yazmina even painted her lips with the menstrual blood. Credit: SBS

She continued: "I would normally connect with the blood, just by doing that it instantly does something to me, and then I would also..." then proceeded to paint her forehead moving down her nose.

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After applying the blood, like some sort of fruity lipgloss, one of the panellists, Dr Ginni Mansberg, said: "I have to say when you came down and put that jar of menstrual blood there, I thought 'icky' and now I see everything that you're doing and you've got so much peace coming off you.

"You've converted what was clearly a very distressing physical situation into something really profoundly beautiful."

Beautiful might not be the word you'd use...

Yazmina became emotional as she shared her pain relief ritual. Credit: SBS

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Yazmina became physically emotional as she explained: "I just want every woman to feel it, you know... I know what women go through, I know that pain, I know that shame. I feel for women that are struggling with this."

The feminine healer, based on the Gold Coast, Australia, has previously shared footage of her ceremony in a quest to prove the menstrual cycle is nothing to be ashamed of.

Yazmina said: "There is too much taboo surrounding this natural cycle. By showing this publicly, I think it shows that it's actually ok to feel connected to it."