• The effect of herbnal remedies on postpartum pain
  • Mahla Chambari,1,* Rasul Saberi,2 AmirAli moodi Ghalibaf,3
    1. Varastegan institue
    2. Islamic Azad University of Mashhad
    3. Student research committee,faculty of medicine , Mashhad university of medical scinces


  • Introduction: The use of herbal medicines by pregnant women varies among different countries and cultures.And postpartum pain affects 6.1% to 11.5% of women after delivery and affects their recovery. And the aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of herbal remedies on postpartum pain and check the advantages and disadvantages of herbal remedies.
  • Methods: MY search was performed on Google scholar, Pubmed, Brandon , Embays, Web of Science, Scopus, and ScienceDirect with using the following keywords; effects, herbal remedies, alternative medicine, herbal medicine,postpartum pain and pregnancy between articles from 2015 to 2019. Between70 study in Googlescholar 23 of them were used in my study . In pubmed 35study were checked and 17 of them were accepted for my study and after studing other papers and checking other websites 18 articles were selected and reviewed for more validity. As you see some articles were rejected because they were irrelevant or unreliable.
  • Results: The concumption of herbal medicines has increased worldwide and many concumers belive herbal medicines are natural therefore they are safer and more beneficial but there isn’t enough evidences concerning the efficacy of some herbs. The products of herbal remedies like ginger, cranberry and garlic used to treat some of symptoms during pregnancy maybe continued into the postpartum pain Lavender oil is used to relieve prineal comfort after vaginal delivery .a double-blind randomized clinical study failed to show any reduction in postnatal perineal discomfort at last nutritionist and anesthesiologists recommended that patients have to cease the use of herbal remedies two weeks before surgery.
  • Conclusion: given that significant percentage of pregnant women around the world are suffering from postpartum pain , it is recommended to use herbal remedies due to their lack of side effects or their low post-treatment effects compared to other therapies ,they can be effective in relieving postpartum pain .of course, the amount of herbal medicine used and how long it takes before giving birth is important.
  • Keywords: Effects, Herbal remedies, Alternative medicine,Postpartum pain and Pregnancy