Placenta Medicine

One of my apprentices has started making placenta medicine and I was amazed at the results. One of our newly postpartum mamas was teary and blue, home for the first time by herself with the baby, she took two pills in the morning and imediatly felt better! she continued taking them for another 5 days then felt so good she skipped a day, now she just takes a pill when she thinks of it and is so happy!

I am including the info about them that we hand out to clients...

Here at Wise Women Care Associates we feel that every woman should have many options about her health care in the childbearing year. That’s why we offer placental encapsulation. Placental encapsulation is a way to utilize your body’s own medicine. Each baby's placenta is an incredible gift to our babies and to us. Your placenta served as the lifeline to your baby, transporting hormones, nutrients, and many other vital necessities. Another way to continue honoring this wonderful gift is by using it as medicine. Using placental encapsulation is believed to:
Contain your own natural hormones
Be perfectly made for you
Balance your endocrine system
Replenish depleted iron stores
Give you more energy
Lessen bleeding postnatally
Increase milk production
Help you have a happier postpartum period
Hasten return of uterus to pre-pregnancy size
Provide bio-identical hormone replacement during menopause
70% - 80% of women experience “Baby Blues” in their postpartum period and 10% suffer from a more serious condition called Postpartum Depression. “Baby Blues” are described as feelings of sadness, fear, anger, or anxiety occurring about 3 days after childbirth and usually fading after 1 week.
Postpartum Depression is described as intense feelings of sadness, anxiety, or despair after childbirth that interfere with a new mother’s ability to function and do not go away after a few weeks. Many women’s only option is pharmaceutical medication to treat postpartum depression. In some cases this is truly necessary but many women find that by being proactive and using placental encapsulation that they can prevent and help combat the symptoms of postpartum depression and the 'Baby Blues'.
After the birth of your beautiful baby and placenta, your placenta will be cleaned and properly prepared for dehydration. Once dehydrated it is ground into a fine powder that is then carefully put into gel caps. During this process we treat your placenta with a great reverence for the wonderful gift that it is. Holding positive energy in the process in hopes that is passes to the medicine that is being created. The process takes approximately 48 hours to complete. Most placenta’s yield 100-150 capsules. They can then be taken immediately to start reaping their benefits. Most women do not finish their capsules and save them for menopause or give them to their child during periods of adjustment.

interesting food for thought!