Increase Breast Milk Production

Common Herbal & Food Supplements As Galactagogues

To increase breast milk production, various food supplements and herbal supplements can act as Galactagogues and boost up lactation. Some of these are better included in our diet and others can be used at home like home remedies. After getting consultation from qualified herbalist, you can use them with great effectiveness.

Common Food Supplements Supporting Galactagogue Herbs:

Aviva Romm, in "Naturally Healthy Babies and Children" (publisher Storey Books) mentions certain foods that have a reputation for encouraging milk production, including barley, oats, beets, carrots (especially carrot juice), winter squash, avocados, brown rice, leafy greens and sea vegetables (especially dulse, hijiki and kombu).

Some Recipes To Increase Breast Milk Production:

Mothers Milk Blend Tea:

To increase breast milk production, Romm suggests drinking up to 4 cups a day of her "Mother's Milk Blend Tea", which can be made as follows:

• 1 ounce dried chamomile flowers
• 1 ounce dried catnip
• 1/4 ounce fennel seeds
• 1/2 ounce dried nettle
• 1/8 ounce dried lavender flowers
• 1 cup boiling water.

How To prepare:

Combine all the herbs. Put 1 tablespoon in a glass jar, add the boiling water, cover, and steep for 10 minutes. Strain. This tea also helps with digestion and relaxation of mother and baby.

Shatavari Or Asparagus racemosus As Herbal Galactagogue Granules:

Shatavari granules is form of preparation that can be prepared at home and used as an aid to increase breast milk production.

Ingredients:

• Shatavari or Asparagus racemosus powder 100 gm
• Cumin seed 25 gm
• Caraway 25 gm
• Fenugreek 25 gm
• Fennel seed 25 gm
• Long pepper 25 gm
• Sugar 250 gm

How to Prepare:

Take sugar in an iron pan used for frying curries and pulses. Add equal quantity of water. Heat the sugar syrup on medium position. Check for the time when sugar syrup gives two or three threads. It is done by taking one drop of cooled sugar syrup between thumb and index finger and then taking the thumb and finger apart.

When there are two or three threads, get the pan down from the burner. Pour the powder of all the herbs that had been mixed together earlier. Mix it with the help of wooden or steel. Mix regularly and within a few minutes the preparation will turn into granules.

This is sweet and tasty preparation that can be used with milk or water. The dosage is 5-10 or 1-2 teaspoonfuls twice or thrice a day to increase breast milk production.

Take Care:

Getting the sugar syrup prepared properly is only thing that should be timed rightly. If you mix herbal powder too early, the preparation will be a heavy sugar syrup. And if you happen to be late (only 1-2 minute late), there will be a deformed hard mass of sugar and herbs and that should be discarded.

So best advice is to take 1/4 of all the material first for testing with formation of granules. Once you sense the right timing, everything will be OK. This little practice will help you to prepare at home many of ayurvedic preparations for your family!

Quite obvious, this formula should not be used by diabetics - both on Insulin and on oral hypoglycaemic drugs.

Use These Herbs With Caution To Increase Breast Milk Production:

Herbs and teas that should be used with caution to increase breast milk production because of possible harmful side effects are:

• Comfrey tea
• Sassafras tea
• Ginseng tea
• Licorice tea

Spirituality & Health:

You are the one who put me together inside my mother's body, and I praise you because of the wonderful way you created me. Everything you do is marvelous! Of this I have no doubt. Nothing about me is hidden from you! I was secretly woven together deep in the earth below, but with your own eyes you saw my body being formed. Even before I was born, you had written in your book everything I would do. (Psalm 139:13-16)

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