This is from Susun Weed's book Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing
Year :
Benefits of red raspberry leaves include : " Assisting in production of
plentiful breast milk. The high mineral content of Raspberry leaf assists
in milk production, but it's astringency may counter that for some women.
"

It is not listed as a galactogogue in any of my references. IMHO, the
benefits to the nursing mother are on a nutritive level. Red Raspberry
leaf is high in calcium, iron, vit C and vit E.

As a nutritive herb it has benefits to the lactating woman but if a
galactogogue is what is needed, I would choose a different herb (
fenugreek or blessed thistle ) to combine with the red raspberry leaves.

Keli

On Tue, 30 Sep 1997 10:05:00 -0400 Debbie Wirtel <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
>I had a call from an LLL Leader who said she's heard four different
>times in
>the past week or so that rasberry tea will increase milk supply.  She
>said
>the people she heard this from had been to a homeopathy conference
>near
>Detroit and it was promoted there.
>
>Does anyone have any info on this?