Mother & Child – Recovering While Nursing

During pregnancy, a woman’s body undergoes the most profound change it will ever experience. As gestation evolves, an energy called Kidney “Essence” passes from mother to fetus. During labor and delivery, an enormous amount of this energy is transferred.

After delivery, the newborn child is, for at least the first four to six months, completely dependent upon mother’s milk or formula substitutes for food. Studies show that children who are breastfed for at least two years do better in virtually every aspect of development than those who are not. While the quality of any mother’s milk is better than store bought replacements, not all milk is created equal. To have the strongest milk possible, and to regain her own strength as quickly and completely as possible, a woman must consume foods that restore this “Essence” energy. Common table foods simply cannot accomplish this.

Mother & Child provides higher potencies of vitamins and minerals than Mother to Be, because the child is now separated from the mother, and gets only minute amounts of these nutrients from the milk. More importantly, it provides the green foods to energize the body as a whole, and a wondrous combination of Superior Tonic Herbs to help restore the “Essence” spent during pregnancy and delivery. A great deal of “Essence” is also passed through the milk, so that renewing it in the mother helps deliver it to the child.

While Superior Tonics are called “herbs,” they are, again, really the world’s most profound foods. By providing hundreds of anti-oxidants and other phyto-nutrients, they repair damage done to cells throughout the body, and strengthen all the organ systems and the blood. By strengthening the Spleen System, they help the mother digest and assimilate nutrients, so that she can more easily incorporate them in milk for her child. By strengthening Kidney “Essence” as no common foods or nutrients can, they help the new mother recover more quickly and completely from the birthing trauma than she ever could on her own. This, of course, helps make both mothers and children healthier, happier and stronger.

Mother & Child also stands alone in providing 162 mg. of lactose free colostrum in each day’s use, to help confer dynamic, immune enhancing properties to the child, and an equal amount of L-Taurine, an amino acid that is extremely important to the development of the child’s central nervous system and vision.

Vital Factors for Brains and Bones

Mother & Child and Mother to Be are also better for your child’s brain and bone development than other formulas. For example, each IU of their vitamin E (d-alpha tocopherol) is balanced with a full milligram of gamma tocopherol, and with a full spectrum of tocotrienols. This is because gamma tocopherol protects brain cells just as alpha tocopherol protects the heart. Studies show that equal levels of alpha and gamma tocopherol produce greater brain development than alpha tocopherol alone. In today’s world, nothing is more important to a child’s future than the way in which his or her brain develops, and there is no better nutrient for this development than gamma tocopherol. In addition, our natal products provide calcium and magnesium not in the standard, 10:4 ratio, but in roughly equal amounts, because, when calcium exceeds magnesium in the diet, both bone and cardiovascular health may suffer. Magnesium is the nutrient in which Americans are by far the most deficient. If mothers lack magnesium, their fetus or nursing child will, as well. If we don’t get at least 600 mg. of magnesium per day, we may be setting ourselves—and our children—up for countless health problems (for more information on this, see our Ionic Fizz brochure).

Superior Tonic Herbs for New & Expectant Mothers

FOR OVER 4000 YEARS, the peoples of Asia have benefited from the most holistic, natural health systems on Earth. Superior Tonic herbs are the foundation on which these systems are built.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, every cell in the body belongs to one of five major organ systems (Heart, Lung, Spleen, Kidney and Liver) or the blood. When energy flows freely between these systems, each system works efficiently, and health is abundant. When energy flow is disturbed, however, imbalances occur. If not corrected, these imbalances become impediments to efficient metabolism, and lead to disease.

Throughout the centuries in which Chinese Medicine has flourished, over 15,000 herbs have been used as medicines. Yet, in all that time, only 22 have been classified as true Superior Tonics, and about 30 more as tonic helpers.

To qualify as a Superior Tonic, an herb must strengthen, invigorate or restore normal function to at least one of the body’s major organ systems, build at least one of the three major types of energy, and be safe for regular, daily consumption. Superior Tonic Herbs are used daily by over one billion Asians as dietary supplements that generate energy, enhance immunity, promote mental clarity, maximize longevity, and so on.

Superior Tonic Herbs bestow such profound health benefits by providing hundreds of phyto-nutrients that exist in no other plants on Earth. Many of these nutrients are anti-oxidants that protect cells from free radical oxidation. Because the anti-oxidants in each herb are different, and protect cells in different organ systems, the right combination of Superior Tonic Herbs can help protect every cell in the body.

Expectant and nursing mothers channel huge amounts of energy to the developing fetus and newborn child. In Chinese terminology, this energy is called “jing,” or “essence,” and resides deep within the Kidney System. Because this is the energy that we pass on at birth, and that we need to see us through illness or injury, it is vital to keep this energy abundant both during and after pregnancy. Superior Tonic Herbs are the only supplements in the world that directly rebuild this energy. For this reason, they should, along with nutrient dense green foods, form the foundation of every nutritional regimen. There is, quite simply, nothing else on Earth that can match their benefits.

Following is a brief description of how the foods and tonic herbs in our natal formulas help support optimal health.

Spirulina: Provides Nature’s most perfect protein. Rich in pre-made glycogen (to provide nearly instant energy). Loaded with phycocyanin (a profoundly important anti-oxidant) and naturally occurring vitamins.

Barley Grass Juice Powder: Rich in chlorophyll and SOD, (an anti-oxidant that is thought to slow the aging process). Great sources of vitamins and minerals.

Reishi mushroom: The true master tonic. Supports all five organ systems and the Blood, and all three energies. Is used in Asia for enormously wide range of medical treatments, but is not a medicine. It is used because it balances the body so that the body can then heal itself.

Lycii fruit: Tonic to Liver, Kidney, Lung Systems and Blood. Among the most prized of all longevity tonics. Often used to help prevent morning sickness. Also a primary sexual tonic, meaning that it strengthens the reproductive process.

Codonopsis root: A ginseng replacement where the “heat” of ginseng is not desired. Tonic to Spleen and Lung Systems, and to the Blood. Rich in immune building factors.

Astragalus: Tonic to Spleen and Lungs. Highly treasured immune tonic. Supports digestion, eliminative functions.

Ophiopogon root: Tonic to Lung, Heart Systems and stomach. Promotes mental and emotional clarity.

Gynostemma leaf: Tonic to Spleen, Lungs, Kidneys, Liver and Heart Systems, and to all three major energy treasures. Regarded as a virtual “cure-all” in Japan.

Eucommia bark: Tonic to Kidney and Liver Systems. Highly prized for helping to rebuild the “Essence” that women lose so much of during pregnancy and childbirth.

Asparagus root: Tonic to Lung, Kidney and Heart System, and important in rebuilding “Essence.” Highly prized as tonic to Kidney “Yin,” which is vital to the production of fluids that rebuild sexual interest and ability after childbirth.

Achyranthis herb: Directs energy of other herbs toward the reproductive tract, so that their energies reach the Kidney System and work toward rebuilding “Essence.”

Prepared Rehmannia root: Tonic to Kidney, Liver and Heart Systems. Called “Kidney’s Own Food,” and considered strongly rejuvenative and life-lengthening. Used in nearly every reproductive tonic in China because it supports Kidney “Essence.”

White Peony: A marvelous Liver and Spleen Tonic. Cleanses, builds and nourishes the Blood. Harmonizes the actions of other herbs.

Cornus fruit: Works with “Essence” and “Yin” tonics as astringent, meaning that it helps preserve the vital moisture essential to healthful feminine function.