>Like I said, I still don't understand cabbage. Until or unless someone
>can more fully explain the reason(s) for some mechanism responsible for
>the actions attributed to it, I just feel foolish advising it. Does
>anyone else have any experience that convinces them either pro or con?
>  
>
Jean, I don't understand it, either, but am quite comfortable with 
feeling foolish.  ;-)  Years ago (before RPS) I'd been talking to an 
engorged mom on the phone, had advised cabbage (as well as everything 
else I could think of), but when nothing was working had her come in.  
She WAS wearing cabbage, but had one leaf in the middle of each of these 
HUGE breasts--it didn't begin to cover the breast tissue.  When we 
pealed off the leaves there was an amazing difference between the tissue 
that had been under the cabbage and the tissue immediately outside of 
it.  The imprint of exactly where the leaf had been was quite obvious.  
That mom convinced me that (at least in some cases) cabbage decreases edema.

Becky Krumwiede, RN, IBCLC
Appleton, Wisconsin

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