Herbal Action: Oxytocic

Also known as: uterotonic

labor and birth

Herbs that assist labor, promote ease in childbirth and stopping postpartum bleeding.

What they do:

• Stimulate labor contractions

• Induce or speed labor

• Help with childbirth pain

• Stop postpartum bleeding

When to consider them:

Childbirth, pain associated with labor and birth, and afterbirth.

Herbs

• Angelica

• Black cohosh

• Black cohosh

• Cedar berries

• Cinnamon

• Crampbark (after birth pain)

• Cotton root

• Dong quai

• Honeysuckle

• Horehound

• Lobelia

• Juniper berries

• Motherwort

• Red raspberry

• Rue

• Shepherd's purse

• Spikenard

• Squaw vine (partridgeberry)

• St. John's wort (after birth pains)

• Vitex (chasteberry)

• Uva ursi

• Yarrow (stop bleeding