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Primary Dysmenorrhea is literally termed as Painful menses. It is an cyclical lower abdominal pain due to which most of the women suffer with painful menses which interrupts their daily routine. Dysmenorrhea may present with pain in abdomen before or during menses, associated with nausea,tachycardia, irritability, fatigue, headache1. cause of pain due to excessive vasopressin, leukotrienes, prostaglandin, myometrial ischemia, uterine malformation2. In this study 30cases presenting with complaints of primary dysmenorrhoea with the symptoms of Black cohosh is randomly selected.Selection of potency based on the susceptability and improvement was accessed by the variability of symptoms before and after the treatment. Out of 30cases 22 had shown marked improvement and 7cases had moderate improvement & 1case had no improvement.This study determines the effectiveness of Black cohosh in the treatment of Primary dysmenorrhoea in adolescent girls.