A patient just contacted me and thanked me for helping her achieve pregnancy and now she’s a mother. She does have a different problem: she is not producing enough milk for her baby. I did some research and arrived at a formula called Zeng Ru Gao, meaning Augment Milk Paste. It’s a patented formula available as a paste for topical application but it can be translated into a formula for oral consumption. I’m sharing the formula here because I have the Chinese source with the constituent herbal content amounts. There’s a conceit in herbal medicine that even the component herbs for a formula are known the constituent amounts of each ingredient are kept secret. I think that is silly so here it is:

Zeng Ru Gao, Augment Milk Paste Formula

Semen Vaccariae (王不留行 - Wáng Bù Liú Xíng) 20g
Medulla Tetrapanacis (通草 - Tōng Cǎo) 20g
Radix Rehmanniae Praeparata (熟地黄 - Shú Dì Huáng) 25g
Radix Angelicae Sinensis (当归 - Dāng Guī) 10g
Radix Paeoniae Alba (白芍 - Bái Shào) 16g
Rhizoma Chuanxiong (川芎 - Chuān Xiōng) 7g
Herba Leonuri (益母草 - Yì Mǔ Cǎo) 20g
Radix Trichosanthis (天花粉 - Tiān Huā Fěn) 20g

Update: One week after patient’s acupuncture and herbal treatment, she reported that her milk output has doubled. (She pumps so she has accurate data.) Four weeks later she reported that output has maintained at the increased level.