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Re: Medical and non-medical uses of placentaFrom: stephanie (stephani@singnet.com.sg)Sat Oct 5 21:32:12 1996
Dear fellow colleagues It was really interesting gathering all the responses with regard to my initial inquiry: Medical and Non-medical uses of placenta. Below is a list of replies to date. I shall gather them together weekly till I reach data saturation!! It all started when a Consultant Plastic Surgeon posed me the query and I couldn't give him much information. Now, I find it personally interesting to trail the uses of placenta. Here they go ... 1. Some folks use the placentas as fertilizer in their gardens. But there has been a problem with dogs digging them up. 2. We used to sell 'our' placentas to the pharmaceutical industry for many years, for pocket change (that went to cakes for the coffee breaks and such), but there's obviously no demand any more. I think they made gamma-globulin from them. Then there are the stories of modern 'pagans', where the mother, and in a mix-up of political correctness the father, eat the afterbirth. I've heard that they fry it first. Supposedly it tastes 'just like liver'. 3. Don't remenber where I read it (hey, I'm a student I've read so much this year, I'm doing good to remember anything) For mom's who have bad post-partum depression, eating "a bite" of the placenta daily until it is gone helps to combat the problem because it is full of all kinds of hormones and it helps to give the moms balance. I wish I knew where I read it, and if it was true.? Any one know??? Re: Pregnancy itch I don't know if it is contraindicated in pregnancy, but I know first hand that Blesseed Thistle is good for someone who is having a problem that is caused by the liver not functioning as well as it should. Maybe it would be helpful for the itchy women. 4. The placenta serves as an excellent teaching aid within a "Pelvic trainer" while teaching "laparoscopic surgeons" to gynaecologists. It is an alternative to "animal surgery" esp. in countries where animal right organisations have rightly banned animal experimentation. 5. I have heard of some institutions using placentas for IV training--the smaller ones are especially good for neonatal practice from what I understand, but I don't have any experience with this. Some people to take them home and bury them--some planting a bush or tree on top of it, and making it sort of a "monument" to the baby. I know some cultures eat them, but let's not go there, OK?? Looking foward to the other replies you get. 6. I know that placentas have been used "medically" in the following manner: * Dried, ground, put in capsules used for hormone component to stim labor. * Eaten freshly prepared (cooked or whatever) by mom for quicker healing. * As a component of beauty products. Please be ever conscious of possible viral transmission. 7. You read it right here on the midwife list. We discussed this some time ago and Valerie Hobbs told us how to make dried homeopathic remedy out of placenta. In her post I always loved the part where she was telling how to cook it to dry it. Especially they part of cooking it until it is no longer "juicy" I know what juicy means!!! :(-- (symbol for ticking finger in your mouth with tongue out) 8. One use for the placenta (sort of) is the procedure of cord blood banking. The placenta is not used, just 30-200 cc of the blood, and it is free if donating the cord blood, and costs money to bank for your own child should he/she, or other family member, need the cells later. If anyone wants more information on banking call 1-888-267-3265 (1-888-cord blood) {888 is toll free}. BTW, I am not advertising, just passing along information I learned from a nice cord blood educator I met yesterday at the Midwifery Today Conference in Orlando. (I wish finances allowed me to spend the whole weekend there it was great) 9. Like Mats, when I was a resident, we used to freeze and sell them for a pittance (wonder if informed consent was a little ignored here) to a company that used them for "human protein" in hair care products. The proceeds were enough to support a modest party we threw for ourselves about once a year. -------------------- I welcome additional responses from you and shall gather them to the above -------------------- list next Sunday. Happy reading.
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Have a pleasant week ahead of you.
Cheers
Stephanie
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Stephanie Chee, M.A., Dip.T.M., R.N., R.M.
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