Table 3 Motives behind using herbal medicine during pregnancy, during labor and after delivery
Period | Purpose | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
During pregnancy | I was healthy and wanted to boost or maintain my health | 77.2% |
I was ill and I wanted to relieve or cure ailment/illness | 22.8% | |
During labor | To induce labor | 21.3% |
To ease or speed up labor | 58.0% | |
Bleeding-related use | 12.2% | |
Fetus-related use | 5.3% | |
Other | 3.2% | |
After delivery | General health | 24.7% |
Relieve pain | 25.1% | |
To clean the womb | 33.2% | |
To decrease bleeding | 2.8% | |
To increase lactation | 6.5% | |
To lose weight | 7.7% |