Herbal and Dietary Therapies for Nutritional Anemia
When hemoglobin is 12 or less before 20wks, you can begin to build up your iron stores with the following suggestions.
Floradix (sold at the local health food store), a liquid whole-foods blend of carrot root, stinging nettle herb, spinach leaves, fennel seed, couch grass root, kelp whole, hibiscus flowers, yeast extract, rose hip fruit extract, wheat germ extract.
Floravital (the vegan form of floradix)
Vitamin C with bioflavinoids supplement, helps
Kelp powder on food, spirulina, chlorella, kelp tablets or dulse (high in iron)
Spirulina and chlorella
Nutritional yeast
Folic acid tablets 1-5mg daily
Yellow dock tincture
400-800IU of vitamin E daily (taken first, iron 8 hours after)
1-2 tablets of non-sulfate iron
Grapes, plums, dark greens, organ meats, black cherries, sea vegetables, miso, molasses, beets.
Nettle infusion tea 1 cup several times daily or tinctures
Cook with cast iron
Cook leafy greens or other iron rich foods with vitamin c rich foods like lemon juice
Exercise also stimulates the body’s use of nutritive elements that raise the hemoglobin (try walking or swimming)
Avoid
Taking iron supplements with meals (try first thing in the morning before eating)
Coffee or tea when taking your iron supplement
Resources
Holistic Midwifery Anne Frye
