Guest guest Posted August 12, 2002 Report Share Posted August 12, 2002 In a message dated 8/12/02 12:56:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time, herbal remedies writes: > One caution about licorice root. If you use it too often, it will aggravate gum disease. Ohoh. Thanks for that warning! Melinda Another caution, over use will cause heart palpations very similar to heart attack. This is from first hand experience. Nack Nackla1 Festiveforaging Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2009 Report Share Posted March 2, 2009 Is licorice root considered safe while nursing? I have read a few places recently that it is not. I am concerned since it is one of the ingredients in the digestive chewing herbs. Thanks, Sonya Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2009 Report Share Posted March 2, 2009 I know that anise seed is in Mothers Milk tea. Is that the same as licorice root? Vicky York, CPD, IBCLC Postpartum Care Services Portland, OR www.vickyyorkpostpartumdoula.com references: www.ikarma.com/user/vmyork - sonyabastow ayurveda Sunday, March 01, 2009 9:14 PM PerinatalAyurveda forum Licorice root Is licorice root considered safe while nursing? I have read a few places recently that it is not. I am concerned since it is one of the ingredients in the digestive chewing herbs. Thanks, Sonya Recent Activity a.. 1New Members Visit Your Group Drive Traffic Sponsored Search can help increase your site traffic. Do More For Dogs Group Join a group of dog owners who do more. Everyday Wellness Zone Check out featured healthy living groups. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2009 Report Share Posted March 2, 2009 Hi Sonya and Vicky - Sonya, what did your sources say? Licorice, anise, and fennel have some similar molecule around taste but are all very different. Anise and fennel roughly related, but anise is heating, a little sharp, great for kaphas and some for vata. Fennel has a gently cooling vipak (post digestive effect) - though initially supporting digestive fires also. Fennel is pretty tridoshically beneficial in smaller amounts, said to be alkalyzing, good for acid stomach, and can be drying in larger amounts as at least fennel has some mild diuretic effect, beneficial often after birth in many ways. Both of these enhance lactation, digestion, and reduce gas. Both considered good for vata and specifically, postpartum vata. Licorice's virtues are quite different - including benefits to soothe dry tissues, being demulcent; helpful with adrenal fatigue, it is also cooling; often harmonizes herbs in a formula. In the postpartum fennel digestive herbs, there is a small amount. It helps balance the drying effects of the roasted herbs (note we hydrate them first before drying, making them extra bio-available), and adds sweetness good for both vata and pitta. For dry cough/respiratory depletions, and throad chakra, has some specificity also. Licorice's contraindications to my knowledge are mostly around conditions of high blood pressure, due to its effect on osmotic changes and kidneys somehow, can increase tendency to hold water. Also less is used for kapha, or balancers as in our recipe. I've not heard any contraindications aside from this around breastfeeding. There is another interesting consideration: Western herbalism has licotice on the avoid list for pregnancy (along with turmeric, parseley, and a numbre of other herbs I personally don't worry about in seasoning amounts). Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine actually sometimes use it in formulation with other herbs, to good benefit, during pregnancy! I've used it in supportive formulation around threatened third trimester miscarriage. Western herbalists and more significantly self-educated experimenters, often will use one herb to exclusion of balance from others, reminiscent in truth of the allopathic model which isolates the " active constituent " of an herb and throws out the balancing intelligence other molecules in the plant, or of a personalized formula. The recipe we work with, Sonya, was designed and approved by 2 vaidyas, very specifically for postpartum mothers. I have no reason to doubt its benefits over years of using it. Yet for women with HBP, we can supportively advise/use a simpler digestive chewing herbs version as also found in your Basic Postpartum Herbals notes, the newer edition you should have? (These are available at www.sacredwindow.com/the_shoppe for download; the advice is to at least also purchase the Ayurvedic Foundations of Postpartum Care and Cooking unit) . Warm Regards, Ysha > Is licorice root considered safe while nursing? I have read a few > places recently that it is not. I am concerned since it is one of the ingredients in the digestive chewing herbs. > Thanks, > Sonya > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 2, 2009 Report Share Posted March 2, 2009 Vicky, I believe that tea has also blessed or milk thistle in it, which is very cooling, drying, and bitter. Anise in there is a better choice than fennel for balance! A little licorice usually to that formula would also make it more of interest to a Mother's telling tastebuds. Adding (wild asparagus root/asparagus racemosas) Shatavari in there too, even 1/4 tsp per cup, adds so much more effectiveness and balance for a postpartum mother's system. Shatavari is also demulcent, and a reproductive rejuvenative tonic. Best taken with some digestive herbs... Ysha > I know that anise seed is in Mothers Milk tea. Is that the same as licorice root? > Vicky York, CPD, IBCLC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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