The Effect of the Ingestion of Desiccated Placenta on the Variations in the Composition of Human Milk During the First Eleven Days After Parturition

Hammett, Frederick S.; McNeile, Lyle G.

doi:10.1016/s0021-9258(18)86759-x

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“…Quantitatively, the production level for lactose and protein had been raised while that for fat had been decreased slightly. [72] The maternal ingestion of desiccated placenta also increased the growth and growth capacity of the breastfed infants above the usual occurrence. This effect was assumed to be due to the presence of unidentified growth-promoting substances in the placenta.…”

Section: Efficacy Of Placenta As a Galactagoguementioning

confidence: 95%

Organotherapy with placenta: past and present

Teppone

2023

IJCAM

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For several millennia, doctors and healers used therapeutic ingredients extracted from minerals, plants, and animals. Among the active remedies derived from animals, the placenta was among the most popular ones. The use of placenta-based remedies has retained its significance in our time. The placenta-based therapeutics are indicated for stimulating immunity, wound healing, reduction of skin pigmentation, treatment of various patients suffering from gynecological disorders, etc. By the beginning of the 21st century, the majority of specific functions and chemical ingredients of the placenta were identified and described. However, only now active proteins and peptides with molecular weight of about ten kDa were revealed. Presumably, they play an essential role during the therapeutic application of placental extract. Hopefully, this discovery will start a new era in the research and clinical application of organotherapeutic remedies, including placenta.

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Section: Efficacy Of Placenta As a Galactagoguementioning

confidence: 95%