Missouri mothers save placenta as natural remedy

[proud2BlibKansan]

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - Some new Missouri moms are reverting to the traditional birthing practice of saving their placenta in hopes of warding off postpartum illness.

The Columbia Missourian (http://bit.ly/NH7e2V ) reports that the practice is growing in popularity among local mothers. The placenta is formed in a mother's uterus lining during pregnancy and helps nourish the fetus. It's expelled once a child is born and also referred to as afterbirth.

The placenta contains hormones and nutrients that proponents of placenta remedies feel can help new mothers recover more quickly and avoid postpartum depression.

It's put into capsules, ointment, and tinctures or even added to food after being steamed, dehydrated and ground into a powder.

http://www.kctv5.com/story/18926477/missouri-mothers-save-placenta-as-natural-remedy

[Egalitarian Thug]

1. So? n/t

[HiPointDem]

2. omg, dried baby pills! but that only happens in korea!

[freshwest]

3. There's an old remedy of putting menstrual blood on property boundaries as DNA markers to the gods.

Or something like that. I don't think I'll be buying someone else's dessicated DNA.

[RevStPatrick]

4. This isn't new.

I remember a few years ago, seeing someone offering recipes for placenta dishes.

Ah yes, there it is:

http://placentachef.blogspot.com/

[MineralMan]

5. Some extreme natural birthing folks

have advocated eating the placenta for decades. It's never really caught on, though, I think. I remember some discussions of this in the 1970s, but never heard of anyone actually doing it. Doggies and kitties do it, though, unless you prevent it.

[MountainLaurel]

6. Of course dogs and cats do it

To keep predators from finding them.

[MineralMan]

7. That's one theory of why they do it.

Actually goats and cows do, too. People have done it, as well. I'm not saying they should or shouldn't...just telling what I know.

[craigmatic]

8. They say some people eat them fried like liver.

[EFerrari]

9. Women in countless cultures do this all over the world. n/t