Evidence-based Approach: Thai Researchers Seeking to Commercialize Herbal Drink Shown to Stimulate Breast Milk Supply

Thai research team is embarking on a long-term journey to commercialize a herbal tea that has been shown to boost breast milk production in a clinical trial.

The study, published in January 2022, demonstrated that the Wang Nam Yen herbal tea was as effective as Domperidone to induce breast milk production at 72 hours postpartum in mothers following a caesarean delivery.

Associate Professor Dr Krit Pongpirul, at the Faculty of Medicine from Chulalongkorn University, said that traditional Thai medicine has been criticized for the lack of scientific evidence backing its claims: “In Thailand, we are still dominated by conventional medicine. My job is to make sure every product we try to promote, we should have measurable and objective outcomes. We choose the product to study not only based on outcomes, but also the product readiness. We are prioritizing the list of herbal recipes to make sure the ones top in the list gets additional evidence before it launches.”

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