Hello! Okay, I wasn't even sure if I should post this because it's not scientific at all, but here goes. I got pregnant with my IUD, and my homeopath recommend that I drink massive amounts of raspberry leaf tea, because she thought it would induce a miscarriage. I'm not sure where she got this idea because I haven't really heard anything else about it, but there are rumours that it can help with labour, so maybe she thought the same mechanism would work? It did not cause a miscarriage. However, after 8 weeks of no bleeding at all (which it how I knew I was pregnant), I suddenly started having some bleeding. Soon after the bleeding started, my IUD expelled. All that to say, although it was probably just a coincidence, I personally would not take raspberry leaf tea if I had an IUD.
Also, since you're interested in herbal remedies for cramping, I just want to say that I've recently tried cramp bark and it worked super well. It didn't taste good though (but I don't like tea). You can find it at herbal stores, it's an actual bark, not a tea. I mixed it with ginger, I think. I have a herbal medicine book that I got it from. If you're interested I can give you the specific proportions/recipe, though I'm sure a herb store would be able to give you some suggestions. The store I went to also had a tea blend they recommend for cramps, so you could try that if you wanted something that likely tastes better than cramp bark.
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Date: 2011-04-19 04:21 pm (UTC)Okay, I wasn't even sure if I should post this because it's not scientific at all, but here goes. I got pregnant with my IUD, and my homeopath recommend that I drink massive amounts of raspberry leaf tea, because she thought it would induce a miscarriage. I'm not sure where she got this idea because I haven't really heard anything else about it, but there are rumours that it can help with labour, so maybe she thought the same mechanism would work? It did not cause a miscarriage. However, after 8 weeks of no bleeding at all (which it how I knew I was pregnant), I suddenly started having some bleeding. Soon after the bleeding started, my IUD expelled. All that to say, although it was probably just a coincidence, I personally would not take raspberry leaf tea if I had an IUD.
Also, since you're interested in herbal remedies for cramping, I just want to say that I've recently tried cramp bark and it worked super well. It didn't taste good though (but I don't like tea). You can find it at herbal stores, it's an actual bark, not a tea. I mixed it with ginger, I think. I have a herbal medicine book that I got it from. If you're interested I can give you the specific proportions/recipe, though I'm sure a herb store would be able to give you some suggestions. The store I went to also had a tea blend they recommend for cramps, so you could try that if you wanted something that likely tastes better than cramp bark.