cleansing for postpartum mom?

[Guest guest]

Namaskar Group,

 

A breastfeeding mom with a seven week old infant asked how soon she could begin

doing

some sort of cleansing. She did some cleansing just before conceiving and feels

a need to do

some now.

 

respectfully,

 

Kim Luchau

Infant Craniosacral Therapist

Kauai, Hawaii

ph: 808.822.4644

[Guest guest]

Hi Jivani -

 

The two types of cleansing I've heard from my teachers report as

acceptable (aside from the agni enhancing panchaloka spices - see a

previous post, in the first postpartum week) while still nursing are

as follows very briefly. Fasting while nursing led our dear friend

Jenny with her first baby to be picked up in the streets in her

underwear preaching as I understand it, still written in the nursing

textbook her psychosis case. Take care in other words!

 

That said, Maharishi Ayurveda guides mothers in the simple panchakarma

home prep steps (oleation, purgation, with modified diet not as much

of a mono kitchadi diet when nursing!) followed by abhyanga, swedana

and basti according to vaidya's recommendations, whether at home or

better, in care of PK clinic.

 

Dr. Gary Young says if a mother clearly has parasitic problems or

candida, there are acceptable protocols which can be done while

nursing also. His " Cleansing Trio " was designed safe and gentle and

effective enough for cancer and other clients, tho vegetarians will

want to substitute a different enzyme such as his Essentialzyme

instead of the Megazyme in the kit. THat is their way of supporting

the agni to help burn the toxins that get loosened and the parasitic

dieoff. In candida also agni is very important and we have discussed

this in previous posts? Essential oils in capsules can be very helpful.

 

I would have to dig in notes, can't now, to see if after 6-8 weeks

postpartum using triphala, psyllium and suitable personalized also

agni supportive herbs would be acceptable substitute. I find some

mothers don't want to use the herb powders which is how I work rather

than capsules or tablets (due to their drying effect) and prefer the

packaged deal such as Dr. Young's - which again requires much

attention to hydration also.

 

Note of course parasite work requires minimizing most fats except a

little sesame or pumpkin seed oil for the first couple weeks, as well

as reducing minerals, b vitamins, red meats, all these things feeding

parasites.

 

You didn't ask about parasites, so I digress. Yet as we know, nursing

mothers have extra caloric needs - from fats as well as carbs, so

cleansing from an Ayurvedic oleation type gentle support will be much

wiser unless parasites area known issue creating obvious problems at

this time.

 

Raw foods/juices emphasis are not going to be an appropriate fasting

now, although if she is in Australia it is summertime and with good

agni and pitta she can gradually increase those foods in her diet if

she feels to. Sometimes the postpartum diet for pittas especially,

finds western dietary habit clients needing to give more focus to

various methods to increase prana, including from a few well

" marinated " or dressed raw things or more fresh fruits as well as

simple pranayama, sunshine, lovely gentle walks, like that.

 

I hope this helps.

Blessings, Ysha

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> A breastfeeding mom with a seven week old infant asked how soon she

could begin doing some sort of cleansing. She did some cleansing just

before conceiving and feels a need to do some now.