6 Medicinal Herbs for Post-Partum Relief

Postpartum goodie set with tinctures, herbs and salves by doula Irina Otmakhova.

My doula Irina makes amazing all-natural tinctures, herbal teas and salves for mothers! Here are some of the products she offers for post-partum mamas.


1. Mother Ease

Mother Ease tinctures

This tincture is prepared with loving intention to easy your postpartum symptoms. Motherwort is the active ingredient in this tincture. The flowering tops, consumed as a tincture, have an affinity for alleviating anxiety and depression, particularly when associated with the hormonal fluctuations associated with the changing times in a woman's life.

Baby blues or sometimes even postpartum depression is a reality for some women postpartum. One way to help the condition is to invoke the herbal remedies. Mother's ease tincture is made of Motherwort, a perennial herb known as the connector herb between the heart, the nervous system and the womb. Motherwort carries us through the transitions in and out of our cycle of mothering. Ideally suited for transition into the motherhood the Mother's Ease tincture eases hormonal transitions and supports a balanced emotional state.

2. Vital-Fire Tincture : This tincture is made specifically for those pesky after birth pains. Cramp Bark is an antispasmodic herb which increases the efficiency of uterine contractions and supports the uterus' ability to contract in a coordinated and effective manner. This is a great tincture for mothers who are planning to breastfeed to relieve those cramps while nursing your sweet new baby.

3. Sitz Bath: This herbal infusion is used topically to sooth the sore or damaged tissues. The healing herbs such as uva-ursi, plantain leaves and lavender blossoms among many others are brewed into a strong “tea”, which then are added to a sitz bath basin. The mama is invited to soak for 20 minutes.

Herbal Sitz Bath

4. Prana Bum Butter: This is great when used topically to soothe sore, swollen or bruised tissues. Also helps with hemorrhoids. The butter is prepared using the healing infused oil mixed with soothing Shea butter and Cocoa butter.

prana bum butter

5. Placenta Pills: Irina also encapsulates the nutritious placenta after birthing!

Placenta Encapsulation: Happy placenta pills

6. Placenta Tincture
A batch of placenta tinctures custom made for three postpartum mamas. Placenta tincture is a constitutional remedy that can be used for the baby throughout her/his life. The placenta contains vitamins, minerals, hormones and stem cells, so it is a good immune system booster.

Placenta Tincture

Are you a post-partum mama?

Postpartum mama in a Rebozo Tuck In Sealing Ceremony

Rebozo tuck-in as part of the Birth Sealing process. The state of pregnancy and birth is associated with expansion - physical, emotional and on the energy level. Once the birth happened it takes a while for the mother's body to come back together. However, it's not only the physical body that needs to shrink back, there are also emotional and energy bodies that require special attention. The Rebozo Tuck-in postpartum ceremony originates in Mexico where traditionally new mothers were wrapped in long scarves along seven energy points (chakras) to seal the birth experience on the energy level. Mothers usually feel reinvigorated and reborn after the procedure.

We are having our next Sacred Postpartum workshop in Beyond Yoga Libis this Saturday, August 8. You may pre-order your medicinal herbs for Irina to take to the event. Email conscousbirthmanila@gmail.com

For more details, please check out poster below or register through www.consciousbirthmanila.com/events

Sacred Post-Partum Sealing Ceremony

If you've been followin this blog, you'd already know by now that my doula-to-Maya, Irina Otmakhova of Conscious Birth Manila and I have been organizing Sacred Pregnancy Conscious Birth and Sacred Postpartum Workshops and Retreats. I always look forward to these because it is a chance to reconnect and regain the feminine power, to practice healing rituals and feel the vibrational energies of positive like-minded women doing some magic to each other!

My most favorite ritual (so far) is the Rebozo Sealing Ceremony which is done during the Sacred Post-Partum workshop. 

First, the mother is given a heated oil massage by her kindred sisters to help release any tension. See this lucky mom getting a once-in-lifetime experience of 10 hands massage. 

And then, Irina supports and lifts and binds different parts using the Rebozo to help seal the energy and physical body. See the rice sacks outside the mother's arms? This is also heated in the rice cooker so that mother can really feel right and secure with the binds and sacks by her side. It's really a wonderful feeling being there tucked with organs being encouraged to come back into place after carrying your baby for 10 moons and birthing your baby!

After minutes of silence or being struck a few inches above the body with the singing bowl for vibrational healing, we slowly open the binds and give the mother words of encouragement on her path to wholeness ❤️

If you would like to experience this for yourself in a group or private setting, please get in touch with Irina at consciousbirthmanila@gmail.com