Table 2 Techniques used to suppress lactation in the Andes. These remedies are drawn from La Medicina Popular Peruana: Contribución al Folklore Médico del Perú by Valdizán and Maldonado, 1922. [4]
From: Traditional use of the Andean flicker (Colaptes rupicola) as a galactagogue in the Peruvian Andes
Preparation | Location |
|---|---|
Extract the milk and throw it out in the sun | JunÃn, Huánuco |
Throw milk extracted from breasts on the cooking fire | Lambayeque, Piura, Tumbes, Lima, Callao, Ica, Ayacucho |
Rub the breasts with ground garlic | Puno |
Tie the nipples with a dirty table cloth | Cajamarca |
Place cloth soaked in cold water over the breasts | Arequipa |
Use preparation of cooked pezón (stem end of zapallo squash) and wiñapu (germinated corn for making beer) | Arequipa |
Use water from cleaning the shirt of the father of the child | Arequipa |
Use ashes from hair taken from the nape of the neck of the father of the child suspended in wine | Arequipa |
Use the powder from ivory dissolved in wine | Arequipa |
Use the powder from sealing wax dissolved in wine | Arequipa |
Use the blood of a rooster's crest | Lambayeque, Piura, Libertad |
Use white clay suspended en boiling water in which a heated steel nail has been added | ApurÃmac |
Use excrement of dove with wakatay (Tagetes minuta) | ApurÃmac |
Use a watery maceration of the infant's umbilical cord | Huancayo |
Eat a large quantity of watercress | JunÃn |