Your placenta is an amazing organ, made from you, inspired by your baby to create, feed and sustain your baby and yourself to Birth and beyond.

A placenta mother tincture is your very own hormonally-focused life remedy. It balances your hormones and creates physical and mental wellbeing in you and your baby after Birthing.

This medicine is ancient, the Mother’s primary tool in the medicinal care of herself and her family. Sadly in recent times the medical industry and the pharmaceutical industry have colluded to separate the Mother from her personally-powered medicine chest, telling her that it is rubbish, leftovers, a biohazard!

I have been preparing placentas for over a decade now, and sadly most medical staff still recoil in horror at the thought of anything to do with the placenta and its medicinal benefits. In past times when the housewife and mother had the primary role of healing and caring for family members, placenta remedies were considered a true treasure. Happily people are once again becoming interested. I am so glad! This ancient knowledge should not be lost with the changing living conditions of today’s families, when it can give so much!

I hope someday soon a nurse, doctor or midwife will ask me about Placenta Medicine and actually listen with interest as the wise mothers and fathers do!

HOW TO MAKE A PLACENTA MOTHER TINCTURE

It is very simple!

Take a teaspoon sized piece of Placenta, from the side connected to Mamma for the Mamma medicine and from the end of the umbilical cord for the Baby medicine.

Place in a sterile jar filled with 40 % proof alcohol ( rum is good ), leave in The Sun and Moon ( 24hrs), strain the mixture through a muslin cloth and place in a dark glass bottle. Take a sterile dark glass dropper bottle, half fill with spring water and half with alcohol, then add 13 drops of tincture . You have now made your own Placenta Mother Essence. Well done! Be well!

Fairy love, Lara xxxxxx

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Ingredients

• 1lb/450g arrowroot powder
• ½oz/14g orris root powder
• 1oz/28g slippery elm powder
• ½ tsp rosemary oil
• ½ tsp lavender oil

Method

Put all ingredients in plastic bag with air! Seal & shake! Open bag & let out excess air, reseal, let stand for 1 week.

Put in shaker jar & use.

Caring for Baby Naturally

BURNS

Cool with lavender or Aloe Vera

BRUISES

Arnica cream (not on broken skin), Arnica 6c, Rescue Remedy.

COLIC

Sore hard tummy( baby) - Mum drink chamomile tea and massage baby belly with almond oil with 1 drop chamomile or lavender oil.

CONJUNCTIVITIS

Yellow pussy sticky eyes Yum! Yum! Wipe both eyes with chamomile tea and eyebright using separate cotton wool balls! Or try breast milk!

CRADLE CAP

Dark dirty looking stuff on baby’s head. DON’T PICK IT! Bathe the baby in bath with 1 tsp sweet almond oil & 1 drop each of lavender & chamomile ( or chamomile tea bag)

NAPPY RASH

Red spots which can sometimes bloom instantly into a big red sore dry patch where they wee! Make mild chamomile tea to wipe bottom with1 use calendula cream – leave nappy off! DON’T PANIC!

SCRATCHES & CUTS

clean with 1 drop lavender oil and water, smooth with calendula

TEETHING

Screaming, dribbling, red bottom, acid wee (oww!!), hot, hands in mouth Chamomilla 6c granules or pulsatilla 6c granules.

WIND

Blue over top lip, irritated hard tummy (baby)

Massage belly & burping.

A great herbal tea to help stimulate milk production. Mix in equal parts

• Catnip
• Chamomile
• Fennel seeds
• Borage

Preparation & dosage: bring 1 litre water to boil, add 1 oz (28 g) herbal mixture & steep 15-30 mins. Strain & drink liberally at least 1 litre daily! Can be drunk hot or cold!

COMFREY, VITAMIN E and HONEY: (to be used on deeper tears) Use fresh or dried comfrey. Mix with a little pure water to make a paste. Add a little raw honey & 1 capsule vitamin E oil. Apply to edges of tear. Seal it in & apply more on top! Keep legs together until well healed. (10 – 12 days is good healing time)

Healing Herbal Wash

My second ‘Post Birth Bitz Bath’ for soothing and healing vaginal scars and stretching.

Mix

• 2oz Comfrey leaves
• 1oz Shepherds Purse
• 1oz Uva Ursi
• 1oz Blue Cohash

Prepare as herbal tea except use 1oz. herbs to 1 litre water. Strain & do ‘Sitz’ (bits bath) 2-3 times daily.

A preparation for an aftercare bath to help heal vaginal tears.

Mix equal parts:

• Comfrey leaves
• Comfrey root
• Ginger root
• Shepherds Purse

Prepare as herbal tea except use 1oz herbs to 1 litre water. Strain and do ‘sitz’
(a bits bath) 2-3 times daily.

Aftercare checklist

ARNICA 200C

To fix any tears & aid in healing of internal & external bruises

RESCUE REMEDY

To calm & relax you & to ease away shock, fear & anxiety.

WARM HERBAL BATH

Rose petals, jasmine flowers & lavender to cleanse relax & restore!

SLEEP WITH BABY!

An absolute must for you two after labouring!

YONI HEALING

‘Yoni’ is the Sanskrit word for women’s bits! These herbs are useful for healing your bits after birth! Torn bits can heal herbally without stitches!

• Aftercare for Mum
• Post Birth Bitz Bath 1
• Post Birth Bitz Bath 2
• Post Birth Salve – Comfrey, Vitamin E, Honey

Immune System Check

Raise immune system with garlic & echinacia to promote healing.

Stimulates the actions of the womb whilst also relieving spasmodic pains. Only to be used during labor!! Mixes well with golden seal for second stage of labor!!

These herbs can be made as a standard tea-like brew & then either sweetened with honey then drunk or used as a compress on head, abdomen, wrists or lower back. Also can be used in tincture form, mixed with cool water as refreshing & helpful drink!

Lime Blossom (also known as Linden Blossom) is used as a relaxing remedy for nervous tension and spasmodic pain during labour. Lime blossom has relaxant properties and is very helpful to lower blood pressure.

Dose

infusion 1-2 tsp to 1 cup 3 x day