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Review
. 2021 Nov-Dec;14(6):748-755.
doi: 10.25122/jml-2021-0353.

Phytotherapy in obstetrics - therapeutic indications, limits, and dangers

Corina Grigoriu  1   2 , Valentin Varlas  1   3 , Gina Călinescu  2 , Andra Magdalena Bălan  2 , Nicolae Bacalbașa  1 , Consuela-Mădălina Gheorghe  4 , Teodor Salmen  5 , Corina Aurelia Zugravu  6 , Roxana Elena Bohîlțea  1   2
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Review

Phytotherapy in obstetrics - therapeutic indications, limits, and dangers

Corina Grigoriu et al. J Med Life. 2021 Nov-Dec.

Abstract

The wide access to varied, attractive, and aggressively promoted information can induce pregnant women to think that any form of complementary therapy can be a saving solution for a medical problem because these therapies are natural, therefore, harmless. Updated information from literature about indications, benefits, limits, and risks of phytotherapy in pregnancy was presented. Valuable therapeutic resources with proven clinical efficacy (evidence-based medicine) were presented for each trimester of pregnancy, during labor, postpartum, but also during breastfeeding. For some phytotherapeutics, there are scientific studies. There is also a detailed presentation about some possibilities for therapeutic errors, which should be avoided during pregnancy. Positive results of phytotherapy deserve to be known and applied by the obstetrician for the certain benefit of future mothers.

Keywords: obstetrics; phytotherapy; pregnancy; therapeutic indications.

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