Homeopathic Medicine for Lactation

Aceticum acidum (Thrice a day), Calcarea phos. (Thrice a day): Child rejects the milk because it is faulty – sour.

Aconitum nap. (Thrice a day), Bryonia alba (Thrice a day), Pulsatilla nig. (Thrice a day): Milk is suppressed.

Aconitum nap. (Thrice a day), Belladonna (Thrice a day): For milk fever.

Aethusa cyn. (Thrice a day): Milk and milk products cannot be digested and are vomited in large curds as soon as taken causing weakness and drowsiness.

Agaricus mus. (Thrice a day): Complaints from suppression of milk.

Agnus castus (Thrice a day), Asafoetida (Thrice a day), Pulsatilla nig. (Thrice a day): Absence of milk or scanty milk coming down slowly on lactating the child.

Alumina (Thrice a day): Useful for delicate children, products of artificial baby foods.

Arnica mont. (Thrice a day), Beilis per. (Thrice a day): Inflammation of breasts, because the head of the child violently strikes against the breast while nursing.

Asafoetida (Thrice a day): Milk appears late after labour or diminishes in quantity. Breasts of women not pregnant are bloated with milk in them.

Borax (Thrice a day): Milk too thick and bad tasting. Child does not want to take breasts on this account. Pain in the opposite breast when nursing one breast.

Bryonia alba (Thrice a day): Inflammation of the breasts due to accumulation of milk.

Bryonia alba (Thrice a day), Pulsatilla nig. (Thrice a day): Ill-effects of weaning.

Bufo rana (Thrice a day): Milk is bloody.

Calcarea carb. (Thrice a day): For increasing the milk supply. Menses during nursing. Milk too abundant but disagreeable to the child. Deficient lactation.

Calcarea carb. (Thrice a day), Pulsatilla nig. (Thrice a day): Milk is too profuse or deficient lactation. To dry up the milk during weaning.

Calcarea phos. (Thrice a day): Milk tastes salty. Child refuses breast feeding. Sexual excitement during nursing.

Carbo animalis (Thrice a day): Weakness of nursing women.

Causticum (Thrice a day): Suppression of milk due to any cause which cannot be determined.

Chamomilla (Thrice a day): Suppression of milk due to anger.

China off. (Thrice a day), Kalium carb. (Thrice a day): Weakness during lactation.

Chionanthus (Thrice a day): For stopping milk supply in women who cannot nurse the baby.

Cina 200 (One dose only): Child refuses to take breast within a few hours of delivery. One dose will set him right. If it fails, give Mercurius sol. 200.

Cod liver oil (Thrice a day): Mix a few drops of this oil in the milk for children who cannot take milk. A few days of forced treatment will cure.

Croton tig. (Thrice a day): Pain from nipple to back during nursing. Nipples are very sore.

Galega off. Q (Thrice a day) 5 drops in ½ cup of water: Increases the quantity and quality of milk. It corrects anemia and impaired nutrition of nursing women.

Graphites (Twice a day), Sepia (Thrice a day): Nipple fissured from nursing.

Lac Vaccinum def. (One dose daily), Lac caninum 200 (One dose daily): For reducing the milk supply. Lac can. 200 helps to dry up milk in women who cannot nurse the baby.

Lactuca vir. (Thrice a day): For increasing milk supply.

Lecithinum 12x (Thrice a day), Ricinus com. Q (Thrice a day), 10 drops, Alfalfa Q (Thrice a day) 10 drops: Excellent remedies to increase the quantity and quality of milk in nursing women.

Lycopodium (Thrice a day), Bufo rana (Thrice a day): Milk mixed with blood as the child sucks the nipples. The child vomits blood.

Magnesium mur. (Thrice a day), Natrium carb. (Thrice a day): Milk disagrees.

Millefolium Q (Twice a day) 10 drops in ½ cup of water: Milk does not come after labour.

Natrium mur. (Thrice a day): Pubic hair fall out during nursing.

Phytolacca dec. (Thrice a day): Excessive secretion of milk in the nursing woman. Breasts hard and lumpy. Suckling and nursing causes pain in the nipples and the pain radiates to other parts of the body.

Podophyllum (Thrice a day): Prolapus uteri during nursing.

Pulsatilla nig. (Thrice a day), Silicea (Thrice a day): Pain in the nipples and all over the body, while nursing.

Pulsatilla nig. (Thrice a day), Calcarea carb. (Thrice a day), Cimicifuga (Thrice a day): Suppression of milk flow due to sudden emotions.

Rheum (Thrice a day): Milk ceases to flow after starting.

Ricinus com. 3c (Thrice a day): To produce milk supply in nursing mothers, even in virgins. It increases the quantity of milk supply in nursing women.

Sabal ser. (Thrice a day): For producing milk supply when suppressed.

Salvia off. (Thrice a day): Excessive flow of milk from breasts (galactorrhea).

Secale cor. (Thrice a day): Nursing women do not get sufficient milk in their breasts or there is suppression or non-appearance of milk after delivery of the child and the breasts do not fill adequately.

Sepia (Thrice a day): Drinking milk makes the patient worse. Milk just does not agree.

Silicea (Thrice a day): Discharge from vagina while nursing.

Sticta pulm. (Thrice a day): Scanty milk. It increases the quantity of milk and removes suppression.

Urtica urens (Thrice a day): Diminished secretion of milk to arrest flow of milk after weaning.

Yohimbinum Q (Thrice a day) 10 drops in ½ cup of water: Stimulates the function of lactational glands.

NOTE: Breast fed babies have a much lower chance of infection than the babies fed on formula milk or milk from other animals. Breast feeding boosts the immune system of the infants.