[rocketmelon]

With your post, it clicked, that perhaps what if prolactins can also used for expressing milk. Hops acts like progesterone and estrogen, and it increases prolactin. Also, hops affects the cycle, (probably increasing the luteal phase?). I'll reexamine chasteberry's effects.

http://www.fugh-berman.com/files/Bust.pdf says diosgenin (contained in fenugreek and wild yam) increase "terminal end bud differentiation " interpreted as maturation.

aw thanx ;] .for duh info ....will yeh I think thats the theory blessed thistle (is high in prolactin) and it's primary use is to help breast feeding mothers....fg and goats rue too ....some people noggling with these herbs have lactated with no baby so your porb right xD
yeh actually I heard hops has a lil progest in it too ..in large amounts it increase levels pretty big cause it's 1/4 the same amount as in fennel seeds!..and yes hops is very estrogenic in large amounts ...I even here like pm it should be cycled or dampened down with weak estros kike soya ...and yup I heard people saying it messed with their cycle ;[
mmhm I've experienced increased luteal phrase on high estro herbs ...although now I cycle better and got to know herbs since this site. I take hops now too on lucteal phrase, I take it now with lots of fennel seeds and damaina for high progest this really helped and got rid of pms mood swings too and my cycle was great this month (compared to no fennel seeds last month .-.) ..I've also started ginger which is meant to encourage your period to come quicker

hey check out this chart lotus gave me ..it doesn't have chasteberry but it has a lot of affordable spices (bloodroot is very high in progest but apparently I'm hearing toxic?!) might help a lil c=
http://www.cancersupportivecare.com/estrogenherbdata.html#TOC