Chamomile in Pregnancy

Not only during pregnancy, but also in ordinary quiet life, almost all people, in any situation, turn to this miracle flower. Pharmacy chamomile is a storehouse of medicinal properties, it is due to this that it is at the head of the list of the most useful and famous medicinal plants.


We constantly use chamomile for the elderly and children, internally and externally, for treatment and for prevention, and even simply, because it has a wonderful taste and smells very nice.

That's why many women do not even ask themselves questions about this during pregnancy: if this camomile can help, then you need to turn to her. However, we can be very surprised when we see a footnote to the flowers with chamomile flowers that it is contraindicated during pregnancy. And moreover, during pregnancy about the use of chamomile can be found a lot of contradictory statements.

How to be in this situation? How do you know if chamomile is harmful to the kids and moms or vice versa brings incredible benefits?

What is the use of chamomile while the child is pregnant?

In fact, chamomile flowers are very necessary and useful even for such an unusual and extremely important period of a woman as bearing a baby. It can be said that if applied correctly, then for all nine months it is perfectly safe. Therefore, if you are very fond of using camomile cosmetics (adding to creams, wiping the face with skin, washing the hair with this infusion), or just love to drink a cup of aromatic tea from chamomile in the afternoon, then you can continue to do this without worrying about your health. But if you have not interacted with chamomile before, then it's best for you to buy a pack of chamomile flowers and begin acquaintance with her. Because for pregnant women, chamomile can become an indispensable assistant. During the gestation of a chamomile, the child does not benefit from:

  1. Removes signs of toxicosis, including vomiting.
  2. Killing pain: headache, stomach cramps and other pain will help to quench tea from chamomile.
  3. Relieves stress, calms the nervous system, removes overexcitation and drives depression and apathy.
  4. It struggles with excessive gas formation, constipation and bloating.
  5. Chamomile broth perfectly helps with stomatitis of other diseases of the mouth, if they rinse your mouth.
  6. Carries antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, wound-healing and bactericidal action, so everyone is advised to use a handbag to treat skin inflammation, wounds, washing the genitals and rinsing the mouth.
  7. Chamomile is rich in magnesium and calcium.
  8. If you are concerned about inflammations and diseases of the sex organs, then the chamomile broth may be used as a bath, douching, compresses and suspensions.
  9. In diseases of the upper respiratory tract, one can do inhalations and gargle with chamomile.
  10. Reduces inflammation of the joints.

Cautions for pregnant women

However, it should be remembered that in order for the chamomile to bring only good benefits, it must be properly applied. If we talk about outdoor use, then it should be said that one should not be afraid, of course, unless there is no individual intolerance to this flower. But when you want to drink chamomile tea or make a decoction, you need to be especially careful.

If it is a question of simple chamomile tea, then make a lax infusion and in no case do not abuse. A pregnant woman can drink no more than two glasses of such a decoction a day, but it's best not to go to the extreme, so limit yourself to one glass. If you excessively consume chamomile tea, then this may turn out to be premature for you and an increased tone of the uterus. This is due to the fact that broths and chamomile-based ones push the body to produce estrogens, and they cause a threat of miscarriage and lead the uterus into tone.

To protect yourself from this, do not drink a cup of tea too much. And if you are a future mother, then before accepting carefully read the composition of herbal fees, because except chamomile there may be other "dangerous" for your position plants.

Most pregnant women try to follow their health as best they can, protecting themselves from all sorts of chemical preparations, so they switch to exclusively natural remedies. Remember that a lot of herbs, if misused, can cause irreparable harm to you.

Chamomile tea for pregnant women

Everyone, even the most busy mistress, can quickly improve her health with simple chamomile tea. Almost all the recipes of this tea are very simple and do not require special knowledge and skills. Here are some of them:

  1. Take a spoonful of chamomile flowers and fill it with a glass of boiling water. Let the tea infuse in the thermos for three hours, and then strain it. Drink ¼ cup of tea two or datjatri times a day.
  2. Take 20 grams of dried chamomile flowers and pour 0.5 liters of water. Let him leave for about five minutes, turn off the stove and let the tea house take fifteen minutes. Strain and drink with dried fruits or honey.

Chamomile teas during pregnancy are best and useful in hot form. So the body will take it faster, learn and raise your tone.

Decoctions of chamomile

Everyone knows that this wonderful flower is used not only for tea, but also as a natural medicine. Now you are avoiding a lot of chemistry and trying to maintain your health with decoctions and medicinal substances.

Take four tablespoons of chamomile flowers and a zeolite glass of hot (necessarily boiled) water. Cover and heat for half an hour. After this, cool the infusion at room temperature for ten minutes and strain. You can store it in a cool place, but not for more than two days. Take half a cup twice a day.

Chamomile for beauty

In addition, that chamomile can be taken internally, it can also come in handy for your beauty. As mentioned earlier, chamomile is rich in magnesium and calcium, and with their help you can follow the beauty of nails, hair and skin, which are most weakened during the gestation of the baby.

Hair mask: chamomile should be brewed together with water in a ratio of 1: 3 and insist in a thermos for about three hours. After soak the hair with a syrup, wrap it in a film and wrap it with a towel. After an hour, wash it off with water.

Mask for the face: three tablespoons of chamomile should be poured 150mlkapyapyka. This infusion wrap with a towel and insist in this position for ten hours. In the resulting broth, soak the gauze and put it on for fifteen minutes. After this, be sure to wash with warm water.

Tray for nails: a tablespoon of chamomile fill a glass of boiled water and let it brew (half an hour). This infusion slightly dilute with water and hold his hands for twenty minutes.

Remember that the use of chamomile pregnant women need caution. Do not resort to the crudely read recipes in magazines and the Internet, especially if they are undeveloped specifically for future moms. Clearly calculate the daily rate and stick to it, and remember that if you neglect the rules of use, you can hurt yourself even with gifts of nature.