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| It is recommended to abstain from the following essential oils and herbs during Pregnancy or Nursing: |
Ashwagandha Barberry Black Cohosh Bladderwrack Blessed Thistle Bloodroot Blue Cohosh Borage Buchu Buckthorn Canada Snakeroot Cascara Sagrada Catnip Chamomile, Roman Chaste Tree Berries Coltsfoot Comfrey Coptis Cornflowers Dyers Broom Flowers Elencampane Ephedra (Ma Huang) False Unicorn Goldenseal Root Horehound Juniper Berries Lemongrass Licorice Lobelia Lovage Sichuan Lycil Berries Maidenhair Fern Motherwort Mugwort Myrhh Oregon Grape Osha Pennyroyal, European Pleurisy Prickly Ash Bark Quassia Queen of the Meadow Rhubarb Rosemary (extract) Sage (extract) Senna Sichuan Peppercorns Southernwood Tansy Tree Peony Turmeric (extract) Uva Ursi Vetiver Wormwood Yarrow |
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Please keep in mind that eating Organic Living Foods on a regular basis is what is necessary for optimum health (Genesis 1:29, John 4:13 & 14, John 6:32 & 33) and herbs are to be used as medicine (Ezekial 47:12 and Revelation 22:2).
Chinese Tonic herbs are considered as food because of their double direction activity and they are not medicinal.
To keep the stress down and for many other of its wonderful benefits, women can take Reishi now and all through pregnancy and nursing. Please see our Pregnancy Program. The following list of tonic herbs that are used for different instances during pregnancy have been used safely in China for thousands of years and are listed in John and Tina Chen's Chinese Medical Herbology and Pharmacology which is available for sale through us. These are just a few highlights of the herbs. Herbs following an asterick * are the ones used most commonly as pregnancy tonics in China.
*Asparagus Root - Tian Men Dong - increases milk (as does fennel and basil)
Astragalus Root - Huang Qi - not in 3rd trimester, it can decrease amniotic fluid
*Atractylodes, White - Bai Zhu - stabilizes pregnancy, restless fetus from spleen qi deficiency
*Codonopsis Root - Dang Shen
*Cordyceps - Dong Chong Xia Cao
Cornus Fruit - Shan Zhu Yu - stops excessive uterine bleeding
Cuscuta - Tu Si Zi - restless fetus, uterine bleeding
Cyperus - Xiang Fu - relaxes uterus
*Dang Gui - Chinese Angelica Root
*Deer Antler Velvet - Lu Rong
Dioscorea - Shan Yao - infantile indigestion and/or diarrhea
*Dipsacus - Xu Duan - restless fetus
*Eucommia Bark - Du Zhong - restless fetus from deficient kidney and/or liver and warms uterus
Ginger, Fresh - severe nausea, dispels exterior wind-cold; Ginger, processed - warms the interior
*Ligusticum - Chuan Xiong - difficult labor, excess postpartum bleedng
*Ophiopogon - Mai Men Dong - generates fluids, for spleen, stomach and heart
*Polygonum - He Shou Wu
*Rehmannia Root (prep) - Shu Di Huang
*Red Reishi Herbal Tea Extract
Schizandra Fruit - Wu Wei Zi
Scutellaria Baicalensis- Huang Qin - restless fetus from heat
White Ginseng - Panax Ginseng - Ren Shen Xu (Bai) - for difficult labor
*White Peony Root - Bai Shao