I just wrote a paper on modalities to increase milk supply and there were two recent double blind randomized trials involving Fenugreek tea. The first one also looked at Palm Dates.

El Sakka, A., Salama, M., & Salama, K. (2014). The Effect of Fenugreek Herbal Tea and Palm Dates on Breast Milk Production and Infant Weight. Journal of Pediatric Sciences (ISSN: 1309-1247), 6.
Turkyılmaz, C., Onal, E., Hirfanoglu, I. M., Turan, O., Koç, E., Ergenekon, E., & Atalay, Y. (2011). The effect of galactagogue herbal tea on breast milk production and short-term catch-up of birth weight in the first week of life. The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 17(2), 139-142.


Andrea Tran RN, IBCLC
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