Reproductive System

-Uterine Tonics: pennyroyal, motherwort, partridge berry, raspberry leaf

-Emmenagogues (blood movers): generally contraindicated in pregnancy, agree they enhance menstrual flow, plant substitutes for hormones, poppy seed, shatavari

-Adaptogens: for general hormone balance, mild food like, eleuthero, ginseng root, shatavari, red date, ashwaganda, schisandra, sarsaparilla, Ho Shou Wu Root

-Amenorrhea: mainly Vata, emmenagogues, abnormal menstrual bleeding

-Dysmenorrhea: Vata: all pain is Vata, analgesics, especially warming, dong quai, pitta/vata, ashoka (caution, cooling), willow bark, cinnamon bark #1 9-10grams cinnamon 2 days, 2 days during cramps

-Excessive or abnormal menstrual bleeding: menstrual hemostats: ashoka, oak bark

-Short cycle: (pitta) piscidia, nutmeg, cooling relaxants, raspberry leaf, shepherd’s purse,

-Long cycle: (vata), emmenagogues

-Metrorrhagia: (kapha), irregular excessive, mainly pitta, shepherd’s purse

– Galactogogue / Galactagogue (milk producing agent) by nursing mothers to increase inadequate breast milk supply

Phytoestrogens – see glossary side or sub menu