Herbs Not Safe During Pregnancy

Remember, everything eaten or drunk passes through to placenta and into the baby. This includes: Food Allergies, Drugs – all kinds, alcohol, caffeine, tabacco, x-rays and ultra-sound. All these things can pose a health risk to your baby. The baby may be born with defects or develop serious health problems as it grows up. Other complications these things can cause are: birth defects, infertility, miscarriage, low birth weight, mental defects and physical deformaties.

Herbs to be cautious of are:

Agave, Aloes, Angelica, Artimegia, Bayberry, Bethroot, Birthwort, Black Walnut, Blue & Black Cohosh, Blue Flag, Buchu, Buckthorn, Calendula, Cascara Sagrada, Castor Oil, Coffee, Cotton Root Bark, Cubeb Berries, Dong Quai, False Unicorn Root, Feverfew, Flaxseed, Ginseng, Golden Seal, Hops, Horsetail, Inmortal, Juniper Berries, Lemon Balm, Licorice, Male Fren, Mensanita, Milkweed, Mistletoe, Motherwort, Oceteo, Osha, Pennyroyal, Perriwinkle, Pipsisiwa, Plurisy Root, Poke, Pyrola, Rhubarb Root, Rue, Sage, Senna, Shepards Purse, Tansy, Tea, Toad Flax, Uva Ursi, Verbaina, Wormwood, Yarrow, Yucca and all Herbs used in Cooking.