You are pregnant, but do not know for sure whether it is worthwhile trusting phytotherapy with the problems that arise and how this can affect the child? This article will help you deal with such doubts. In fact, herbal medicine during pregnancy was practiced by our grandmothers. This is one of the most ancient ways to provide first aid to a pregnant woman. If you pick up the herbs correctly, they will not only facilitate your condition, but also help to normally bear and give birth to a healthy child.
What are the advantages of herbs?
By the content of vitamins, minerals and organic acids, they are significantly ahead of some vegetables and fruits. Herbs help restore the hormonal health of the body, because they contain both female and male hormones in the most ideal proportions. It is proved that the therapeutic effect of herbal preparations and phytopreparations is several times greater than the effect of conventional medicinal chemical preparations. This is achieved through the naturalness of raw materials and the absence of any negative effects on the fetus. However, there are certain strict contraindications for taking herbs during pregnancy. A woman in a position can not be accepted: tansy, buckthorn fragrance, medicinal oregano, aloe, medicinal hyssop, medicinal lover. Also, do not use parsley curly, radish, rhubarb, barberry, licorice naked. Some negative consequences can cause: chaga, sorrel, spinach, strawberry infusions, ordinary mordant. In the rest, the treatment with herbs is absolutely safe. Medicinal plants during pregnancy perfectly regulate the process of metabolism, blood supply to the brain and blood circulation, able to relieve insomnia and improve the overall emotional background.
What are the problems with herbs?
Future moms have specific problems, which can be easily handled by certain phyto-tea or herbal preparations. In any case, it is advisable to agree with the attending physician. With toxicosis, for example, helps raspberries (fruits with leaves), lemon balm, calendula (flowers) and mint chemist. With late, especially severe toxemia and edema, an excellent effect will be collected from the leaves and berries of cowberry, birch leaves and horsetail. With increased tone of the uterus, a dandelion tincture is recommended. It also perfectly cleanses the vessels and quickly eliminates intestinal colic.
The well-known fact that in pregnant women the immunity is somewhat reduced, which can become a risk for the onset of flu and colds. Since it is not recommended to take regular medications for future mothers, grasses come to the rescue again. When the first signs of a cold appear, tea made from fruits and leaves of raspberry and lime-colored flowers, like yarrow extract, will help to quickly improve the condition. However, it is always better to prevent the disease in advance: vitamin tea with rose hips, garlic or onions, cut and spread out around the room, eucalyptus, tea tree or lavender oils contain a number of natural antibiotics, phytoncides and act as an antiseptic. Also in their composition are natural immunomodulators: echinocice and licorice root gently support the body's defenses. Tea from verbena has a tonic effect.
With the help of medicinal plants you can get rid of the ailments typical of pregnancy. For example, with anemia you should drink tea from strawberry leaf and rose hips. In case of toxicosis at the very beginning of pregnancy, melissa and peppermint will help to alleviate the condition, having an analgesic, soothing effect, removing intestinal spasms and reducing gas production.
With abundant salivation, rinse your mouth with a decoction of the bark of oak or sage, which also helps to cope with bleeding gums. With constant increased pressure, herbal medicine has a calming effect: herbaceous motherwort and peppermint, valerian roots, juice and fresh berries of black chokeberry. At low arterial pressure it is necessary to resort to the help of tonic means: fruits of hawthorn, dogrose and grass of St. John's wort.
With gestosis in the second half of pregnancy (with high blood pressure, the appearance of protein in the urine, edema), the excitability of the central nervous system will remove valerian, and will also have an antispasmodic effect. The action of the motherwort is more pronounced: in addition to the spasmolytic and soothing effect, it is able to slow the rhythm of cardiac contractions. When gestosis is best to take herbs that can facilitate the work of the kidneys: strawberry leaf, birch sap, cranberry, cranberry leaf, bearberry. They all improve the condition of the kidneys, reduce the secretion of protein in the urine, reduce blood pressure.
After giving birth, the importance of phytopreparations is also difficult to overestimate. To stop strong uterine bleeding will help infusion of berries of viburnum. It is prepared as follows: two tablespoons of dried berries are poured into a glass of boiling water and infused for four hours. Take it three times a day for a glass before eating. This infusion helps to increase the production of breast milk. Also this function is performed by infusion of fennel, anise or nettle. Wormwood, tansy and hops contribute to the recovery of the menstrual cycle.
We must not forget that herbs are a medicine, although natural. Their uncontrolled reception is simply unacceptable! Treatment during pregnancy with herbal remedies should be carried out by courses for one month, as the effect grows slowly. During pregnancy, you should use caution to plants that increase the tone of the uterus. This shepherd's bag, herb of oregano, lavender, yarrow, primrose and juniper fruit. Anise fruits, licorice root, hop cones and sage affect the production of some hormones, which is especially dangerous during the first trimester of pregnancy. It is necessary to avoid such potent plants as tansy, nettle, barberry, ledum and juniper. Only with proper intake of drugs of plant origin will support your vital energy and contribute to the birth of a healthy baby!