Text Box: EFFECTS OF N. LACTO DRUP (AN HERBAL DRUG) ON HUMAN BREAST MILK
SOLTANZADEH, M.H.
Department of Pediatrics, Imam Hossain Medical Center
School of Medicin of Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran                                                                                                                                                                                                               
                                                               Nursing with human breast milk has long been established to play a major role in the well being of the newborn. With this in mind, I designed a research project to study the effect of an HERBALDRUG containing fennel (feoniculum vulgaremill) Amise (pinpinella Amisum) Cumin (Carur Carvil), Dill (Anethum Graveolens) Pursely (Fetroselinum Crispum). Nigella Seeds (Nigella sativa) and fenugreek (Trigonella feonum Graecum) on Human Breast production. The drug was made by drop perculation Method. 
A Double - Blind case - control study was designed where in 100 nursing woman were given the Herbal during or a placebo over a period of 5 weeks.
At the beginning of the study, the mean maternal age was 27 years and the mean neonatal age was 39 days. 41 maternal received the Herbal Drug and 39 mothers received the placebo. 20 mothers originally in the study were dropped out for failing to report. Mothers taking parting in the study reported every week for five weeks. At every visit the following factors were noted.
*Mean Neonatal Weight,  * Mean Milk Production, * Percentage of Nursing Event in 24 hours, * Percentage of Milk Consumption per Event in 24 hours.  The P value was 0.05.  Based on the above findings, no differences were observed in Milk Production between the Placebo and the Herbal During group. Key word N-LactoDrop,Breast milk , weight infant , milk production.
1983