Unani care for women aged 13 to 39 — for the years before a pregnancy and the long, under-attended years after one. We start with what your prolactin report actually means, then treat the person around the number.
Most non-pregnant women sit under 25 ng/mL. A value here usually points the consultation elsewhere — cycle history, thyroid, weight, sleep, stress.
Guidance only, not a diagnosis. A single high reading is often stress, a recent meal, breast examination, or medicines you are already taking. Repeat testing and clinical assessment decide everything.
The problems we treat
Pick the side of the story you are living right now. Each concern below is one we see weekly, and each one changes what we ask you in the consultation.
Cycles shorter than 21 days, longer than 45, or gone for three months without a pregnancy.
Galactorrhea when you are not feeding, often with skipped periods and low interest in intimacy.
Acne along the jaw, hair on the chin, weight that will not move, and a scan that mentions "multiple follicles".
An underactive thyroid pushes prolactin up. Treating one without checking the other wastes months.
Twelve months of trying under 35, six months over 35 — and no answer yet from either partner's tests.
Two or more losses before 12 weeks. Prolactin, thyroid, sugar and clotting all deserve a look.
Pain that stops you working or studying, pain during intimacy, or bowel pain that peaks with periods.
Very common and very treatable — and both can stop ovulation on their own.
Three to six months of preparation before you start trying: cycle, weight, iron, folate, sugar, medicines.
Baby unsettled, few wet nappies, weight not climbing. Usually a latch and frequency problem before it is a milk problem.
Hard painful lumps, fever, a red wedge on the breast. This one needs the same-day slot, not next week.
Prolactin stays high while you feed — that is normal. We tell you when the wait stops being normal.
Handfuls in the third to sixth month. Almost always self-limiting — unless iron, thyroid or protein is the cause.
Especially after gestational diabetes, where the window to prevent type 2 diabetes is now, not later.
Low mood past two weeks, frightening thoughts, or no sleep even when the baby sleeps. We screen, and we refer.
Leaking on a cough or sneeze months later is common — it is not something you have to keep.
The first pregnancy happened easily; the second will not. Prolactin and thyroid are the first two to recheck.
What is safe while feeding, what affects milk, and how soon your body is ready for the next pregnancy.
No period by 15, or no breast development by 13. Worth checking early rather than waiting it out.
Flooding through protection, missing school, fainting. Heavy bleeding at this age often means low iron too.
Acne, facial hair, darkened skin folds at the neck. Managing it at 17 is far easier than at 27.
A parent or guardian joins the video call and gives consent in writing before the appointment. Notes are shared with the guardian. We keep the language age-appropriate and the exam-free history first.
Heavy bleeding soaking a pad every hour, fever above 38°C after delivery, severe headache with blurred vision or new visual field loss, chest pain or breathlessness, a seizure, calf pain and swelling, or thoughts of harming yourself or your baby. Telemedicine is the wrong tool for these.
Indian context
Hormones are not only made in glands. They are made in night shifts, long commutes, joint-family kitchens, exam seasons and the air outside the window. Our history-taking is built around the life Indian women actually live.
Prolactin peaks in sleep. IT, BPO, nursing and hospital rosters flip that rhythm, and a phone at midnight keeps it flipped. Sleep timing is the first thing we fix, before any medicine.
Indoor work, full-cover clothing, sunscreen, high melanin and haze over most cities. Deficiency rates in urban Indian women run very high, and it shows up in cycles and mood.
Domperidone taken for acidity or to push milk, metoclopramide, several antipsychotics and antidepressants, and some blood pressure tablets. We ask for your full strip list, not a summary.
Heavy periods on a largely vegetarian diet, with tea or coffee drunk right after meals blocking the little iron there is. Anaemia alone can stall ovulation.
Rice, roti, biscuits with chai, and very little protein. Insulin resistance follows, and PCOS follows insulin. We rebuild the plate rather than delete it.
PM2.5 through winter, food reheated in plastic, phthalates in fairness creams and hair products. Endocrine disruptors are a real background load in Indian cities.
Ramzan, Navratri, Karva Chauth, weekly vrat. Fasting is not the problem; unplanned fasting with anaemia, low protein or thyroid medicine timing is. We plan around your calendar.
Board exams at 17, marriage pressure at 24, "good news?" at 26, a newborn and no help at 29. Chronic stress raises prolactin and cortisol together. Naming it is part of the treatment.
Two hours on a bus in 42°C, water avoided because there is no clean toilet at work. It affects blood pressure, urinary infections and pregnancy outcomes more than most patients expect.
Most women we meet have carried the problem for two to four years, usually because the first person they told said it would settle after marriage, or after a baby. It rarely does.
The formulation
سفوفِ اعتدال
Safoof-e-I'tidāl
Prolactin balance
powder · Unani
NET 90 g · 30 DOSES
A single-purpose safoof (fine powder) built around the classical Unani principle of اعتدال — restoring balance rather than forcing a number down. It supports the cycle-regulating and stress-buffering side of care while your treating doctor manages the diagnosis itself.
| Dosage form | Fine powder (safoof), unflavoured, 3 g level scoop included |
|---|---|
| Net quantity | 90 g jar (30 doses) · 45 g starter (15 doses) · 3 g single-dose sachets, box of 30 |
| Key herbs | Sambhalu سنبھالو (Vitex negundo) · Asgand (Withania somnifera) · Tukhm-e-Kasni (Cichorium intybus) · Tukhm-e-Karafs (Apium graveolens) · Darchini (Cinnamomum zeylanicum) · Gul-e-Surkh (Rosa damascena) |
| Deliberately absent | Methi and Shatavari. Both encourage milk production, which is the opposite of what this formulation is for. They appear in our postpartum SKU instead. |
| How to take | One 3 g scoop with 100 ml lukewarm water, 30 minutes after breakfast. Twelve weeks, with a review at week six. |
| Review point | Repeat serum prolactin at week six. If the number and the cycle have not moved, we change the plan — we do not extend it. |
| Shelf life | 24 months · store below 25°C, keep the scoop dry |
Consultations
Every consultation happens over video. Choose a slot, pay online, and you will get a prescription and a written plan in your inbox within four hours of the call.
Full history, review of every report you have, and a written twelve-week plan.
Progress review, dose changes, and the next set of tests. Free if within 14 days of your first call.
You have the results and no one has explained them. We go through the report line by line.
For ages 13–17, with a parent or guardian on the call and written consent taken beforehand.
Before your appointment
Four short steps, about five minutes. Filling this in before the call means we spend the appointment on answers instead of paperwork. Nothing here is shared with anyone outside the clinic.
You will get a confirmation on WhatsApp within two hours with your reference number and a link to choose your consultation slot. If anything you have written needs urgent attention, the clinic will call you first.
Choose your consultation slotStraight answers
Almost certainly not. Values in the twenties to forties are most often caused by stress at the blood draw, a recent meal, sleep disturbance, an underactive thyroid, or a medicine you are already taking. The right next step is a repeat test taken properly — fasting, rested, mid-morning — along with a thyroid check. Imaging is considered when values stay high without an explanation, or when they are very high, or when there are headaches and visual symptoms.
No, and we will not tell you otherwise. Where a pituitary adenoma or a markedly raised prolactin needs a dopamine agonist, that is the treatment, and we will refer you to an endocrinologist. Our formulation is for the large middle group: mildly raised values, irregular cycles, stress and sleep-driven imbalance, and the recovery period after conventional treatment ends.
We do not sell fertility. What we can honestly say is that regular ovulation, corrected iron and thyroid status, controlled blood sugar and better sleep all improve the odds, and that we work on those. Any clinic promising conception from a powder is selling you something.
Safoof-e-I'tidāl is not for the breastfeeding period — it works in the opposite direction to what your body is doing. If you are feeding and have a concern, the postpartum consultation and, where appropriate, our lactation-support formulation are the right route.
No. For anyone under 18 we need a parent or guardian to consent in writing and to join the call. If home is difficult, tell us in the case sheet and we will suggest a safe way forward, including an adolescent clinic near you.
We consult worldwide by video. Medicine shipping is limited to India, plus the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar and Kuwait where import rules for herbal preparations allow it. Elsewhere we send the prescription and a list of equivalent formulations available locally.
They stay in your patient record, held under the clinic's data policy and India's telemedicine practice guidelines. Only the treating doctor and one clinical coordinator can open them. You can ask for a copy, or for deletion, at any time by writing to us.