Herbs for the Postpartum women

Red Raspberry

The perfect pregnancy herb, red raspberry contains vitamins C, A, B complex, E, and many mineralls as well. It is high in readily absorbable calcium, making it a wise lifelong uterine and bone tonic tea for women.It can help lessen nausea and prevent miacarriage and hemorrhaging. This herb is known to make birthing easier, so it is good to drink a lot of red raspberry leaf tea in the last months of pregnancy.After birthing, it reduces cramping and regulates vaginal discharge. Red raspberry is wonderful for increasing milk quantity and quality. Stomach problems like indigestion, cramping, diarrhea, and flu symptoms are often treated with raspberry leaf and chamomile tea combination. Let tea water cool a bit before putting in red raspberry leaves because boiling reeduces this herb's effectiveness.

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Publisher:Celestial Arts 
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Comfrey

Comfrey is also called "bone knit" because it contains allantoin, which speeds the healing process. It literally grows like a weed. Just like a women who has found her home, she flourishes, but comfrey simply don't grow in a spot where she's unhappy. The leaves, gresh or dried, as well as the ground root, can be made into a tea. The tea works great as a douche to combat yeast infections. A comfrey compress relieves itchy stitches and keeps prineum tissue soft and pliable while it heals. To make a shooting compress, soak a couple of handfuls of fresh comfrey leaves in four ounces of hot water for ten minutes or longer, or make a paste with the powdered root. Apply the compress directly to your pelvic fllor for up to five minutes. You may also take a comfrey tea sitz bath or make comfrey tea, soak a cotton cloth in it, and apply this to the area. If you are suffering from sore breasts due to engorgement, a hot comfrey compress will soften your breasts and reduce the pain.

-<After the baby's birth>  by Robin Lim
Publisher:Celestial Arts

(We do grow some comfrey in our Organic farm.)
[Modified by: 因心 on 07 十月 2007 10:50:41 ]