
Pregnancy & Birth
Nine months that change a life — and a birth that opens everything. Medicinal plants accompany pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period with the gentleness this time requires.
Hardly any other time in a woman’s life is as physical, as emotional, and as rhythmic all at once as pregnancy. The body makes space, the soul prepares itself, day by day a new life grows — and with it the mother grows into a new role.
Mindful support
During pregnancy, medicinal plants must be used with special moderation: less is more, and every application must be carefully considered. Midwives and phytotherapists draw on a proven repertoire — plants whose effects are gentle and whose safety has been demonstrated over generations, showing they are suitable for this sensitive time.
Birth is not an event — it is a transition.
Every application during pregnancy and the postpartum period belongs in the hands of a healthcare professional — midwife, gynaecologist, phytotherapist. Ceres mother tinctures provide a reliable repertoire that has proven effective for many years in this sensitive time.
Plants for this topic
SpringChamomile
Chamomilla / Matricaria recutita
Security, patience, gentleness, motherliness
SpringDaisy
Bellis perennis
Untouched quality, innocence, intactness, childlike nature
SpringDandelion
Taraxacum officinale
Transformation, adaptability, flow of life energy, warmth, life force
AutumnHorse Chestnut
Aesculus hippocastanum
Uprightness, lightness, self-control, collection, seriousness and merriness, light in darkness
SpringLady's Mantle
Alchemilla vulgaris
Enveloping, guarding, bringing forth
SummerLavender
Lavandula angustifolia
Clarification, purification; transcendence
SummerLemon balm
Melissa officinalis
Soothing, softness, mildness
SummerMarigold
Calendula officinalis
Balm, closing wounds
SummerPassionflower
Passiflora incarnata
Calmness of the heart, finding oneself, one’s own inner sound
SpringShepherd's purse
Capsella bursa-pastoris
Retaining, restricting, containing life force
SummerSt John’s Wort
Hypericum perforatum
Light assimilation, strength to counter nervous sensitivity, stability
SummerYarrow
Achillea millefolium
Ability to discriminate, realisation of the essence
