More Research Citations Regarding Placenta Encapsulation & Lactation
Historical perspective:
- 1917 http://www.lucina.ca/plresearch/The%20Placenta%20As%20A%20Galactago...
- 1918 "It has been shown that the feeding of desiccated placenta to women during the first eleven days after parturition causes an increase in the protein and lactose percent of the milk... All the mothers were receiving the same diet, and to the second set 0.6mg of desiccated placenta was fed three times a day throughout the period. Certain definite differences in the progress of growth of the two sets of infants are to be observed. It is evident that the recovery from the postnatal decline in weight is hastened by the consumption of milk produced under the influence of maternally ingested placenta." McNeile, Lyle G. 1918. The American journal of obstetrics and diseases of women and children, 77. W.A. Townsend & Adams, original press: University of Michigan.
- 1923 http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Organotherapy-Internal-Secretions-P...
- 1929/1934 "Placenta As a Galactagogue" Florance Beeson King,Indiana University,http://www.worldcat.org/title/placenta-as-a-galactagogue/oclc/32527...
- 1993 "Giving...placenta to a new mother following birth has become standard protocol among a growing number of midwives in the United States. By nourishing the blood and fluids, endocrine glands and organs, Placenta will ...reduce or stop postpartum bleeding, speed up recovery, boost energy and relieve postpartum blues." Homes, Peter. 1993. Jade Remedies, Snow Lotus Press, 352.
- 1997 "Powdered Placenta Hominis was used for 57 cases of insufficient lactation. Within 4 days, 48 women had markedly increased milk production, with the remainder following suit over the next three days." Bensky/Gamble. 1997. Materia Medica, Eastland Press, 549.
- 2006 "This paper argues that parent-offspring conflict is mediated by placental b-endorphins in placental mammals, i.e., foetuses make their mothers endorphin-dependent then manipulate them to increase nutrient allocation to the placenta. This hypothesis predicts that: (1) anatomic position of endorphin production should mirror its presumed role in fetal-maternal conflict; (2) endorphin levels should co-vary positively with nutrient carrying capacity of maternal blood system; (3) postpartum psychological symptoms (postpartum blues, depression and psychosis) in humans are side-effects of this mechanism that can be interpreted as endorphin-deprivation symptoms; (4) shortly after parturition, placentophagia could play an adaptive role in decreasing the negative side-effects of fetal manipulation; (5) later, breast-feeding induced endorphin excretion of the maternal pituitary saves mother from further deprivation symptoms. Finally, whatever the molecular mechanism of fetal manipulation is, widespread and intense medical care (such as caesarean section and use of antidepressants) affects the present and future evolution of mother-foetus conflict in the human species (and also in domestic animals) to increase ‘fetal aggressiveness’ and thus technology-dependency of reproduction." Peter Apari & Lajos Rozsa 2006, Summary from Deal in the womb: Fetal opiates, parent-offspring conflict, and the future of midwifery
- http://placentamom.weebly.com/research.html has many pdfs including 1954 http://placentamom.weebly.com/uploads/2/4/8/3/2483180/placenta_lact...