Drinking Fertility Herbal Teas to Enhance Your Cycle & Hormones

Oct 16, 2017 | Uncategorized

You will hear us talk a lot about “fours” at the clinic. The Four Stages of the Menstrual Cycle. The Four Rites of Conception. Four Core Phases of Fertility. The Four Phases held within our Angea Fertility Conception teas.

There is magic in the number of four. In most instances, women who have a 28 day menstrual cycle, is four weeks. What we do in each of those four-week periods is critical to conception. Everything we do has a reason behind it.

All of life runs in a cycle, we have seasons where things grow and seasons where things rest. Our bodies are the same. There are optimal times for conception and other times when we need to be resting our bodies as we enter a new cycle of growth. Understanding all these processes not only allows us to connect more with Mother Earth and allow her to support us, it makes us feel better and function better, which in turn will increase our chances of falling pregnant naturally.

Our Secret Recipe  

I’ve created my own range of unique fertility herbs designed to meet the Four Core Stages of Natural Conception. The Herbal Range will support you during each stage of your cycle, balancing your hormones, increasing your fertility and regulating your cycle. When constructing formulas to be taken at different times of your menstrual cycle, we take into consideration all the physiological processes that occur during each phase, viewed from both Western & Eastern and apply medicinal formulas that promote or adjust each stage.

The first core stage of natural conception is the flow

Having a menstrual cycle allows us to procreate. It is a powerful gift in the life of a woman, and we need to honour our bleeding time. It can help us in our life, help with a healing process or help us move with a life experience. If we become stuck in our fertility journey, we start to resent our bodies and our fertility.

Learning to recognise and appreciate your body’s cycles brings you greater awareness and acceptance. You will understand the subtle shifts that are constantly occurring in your body and the emotions that result from your hormonal fluctuations.

Knowing yourself intimately deepens your connection to the cycles of life, as well as to the power of your own body’s intelligence.

The Angea Fertility Goddess Flow Tea is designed to create a healthy menstrual cycle and flow.

PHASE 1: MENSTRUATION

Day 1 is the considered the first day of the 28-day cycle. If an egg has not been fertilised, it disintegrates. Low levels of both estrogen & progesterone during this phase cause the endometrium (lining of the uterus) to break down and shed in the form of menstrual blood. Bleeding lasts an average of 5 days.

Note: if your period begins in the evening or during the night then Day 1 is taken from the next day.

The nature of your menstrual flow and its symptoms are all important factors for pinpointing if there’s a hitch between the movement of Qi and blood. Any obstructions to the menstrual flow can have implications on fertility. A regular period that arrives on time is crucial to the transition, growth and decline between Yin and Yang, the interplay of Qi and blood and the rise and fall of your hormones.

FLOW

  • Treats painful periods
  • Eases menstrual cramps
  • Removes bloods stagnation such as clots in blood
  • Improves blood flow – brown discharge & short flow
  • Treats Headaches & Migraines
  • Improves Irregular Bleeding

Phase 1 – the period, is the time when the lining of the uterus is being shed. Flow is taken during this phase. We recommend from Day 1 – Day 5. Flow is designed to create a healthy menstrual flow. No more painful, clotty, crampy periods.

PHASE 2: FOLLICULAR 

Think of this phase as the pillar of your menstrual cycle. During this phase your endometrial lining in your uterus builds and you grow what is called a dominant follicle. This is all thanks to a hormone called the Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) – produced in your brain – and estrogen.

FSH acts on the ovaries to promote the development of several follicles, each one containing an egg. Only one follicle will get to grow up big and strong.

Toward the end of this phase, the ovaries start pumping out estrogen. This makes your uterus lining thick to prepare it for a potential tenant – a fertilised egg! Around this time, you’ll also experience an increase in cervical fluid, which is essentially just a bit of discharge.

Follicular Foundations

  • Treats Infertility
  • Increases cervical mucus
  • Increases follicular development
  • Regenerates endometrial lining
  • Enhances egg quality
  • Improves Basal Body Temps
  • Increases Menstrual Blood
  • Builds Yin, Qi, Blood & Essence
  • Clears heat & Yin Xu

The second phase following the period, Follicular, is the time when the follicles develop in the ovary and the uterine lining is replaced. Phase 2: Follicular Foundations is taken during this time. We recommend taking from the last day of your period till ovulation. For example, if you have a 28-day cycle take from Days 5-12.

PHASE 3: OVULATION

This is everyone’s favourite time of the month – because it’s time for action! Ovulation is THE BEST time to turn up the heat because it’s when you’re most fertile. Remember that lone, mature follicle? She’ll release an egg around about now, and that little egg will travel down your fallopian tube into your uterus.

The journey starts around 24-hours after your brain starts churning out a little something called the luteinizing hormone (LH). This surge causes the mature follicle to bulge out from the surface of the ovary and burst (without any pain!) and release an egg. This usually happens on day 14 of your cycle.

The Great Ovulation

  • Promotes Ovulation
  • Improves poor response to ovulation
  • Improves LH surge
  • Reduces Ovulation pain
  • Invigorates Blood
  • Promotes a healthy yin foundation
  • Improves Basal Temp Chart

The third phase, ovulation is a busy phase during which we need to be aware of many different physiological processes, including maturation and release of an egg, transport in the fallopian tubes and the development of a corpus luteum on the ovary.

Phase 3 formula – The Great ovulations takes all of these into account. We recommend taking from Days 12-18.

Phase 4: LUTEAL

  • Keeps Womb Warm
  • Promotes function of Corpeous Luteum- Progesterone
  • Nourishes Uterine Lining
  • Supports Implantation
  • Supports Qi, Blood & Yang

Phase 4 Luteal formula is taken during the last stage of the cycle. This formula aids the process of implantation if there has been a conception. We recommend taking after ovulation up until the period or a pregnancy test, from Days 18-28.

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