This past week,  I was presented with two different lactating issues and I thought - let's post the info - there are more of you out there!
I want milk! Need to get the milk flowing after the birth of your baby? Having trouble with breast feeding?
Traditional Medicinals offers two great teas: Organic Pregnancy Tea to support healthy pregnancy (raspberry leaf, strawberry leaf, nettle leaf, with some other good ones for digestions and taste), and Organic Mother's Milk to promote Healthy Lactation (bitter fennel fruit, aniseed, fenugreek, blessed thistle herb, coriander fruit, marshmellow, and some mint and lemongrass/verbena). These are great to drink 3-5 times daily (steep 5 minutes or more).
Other favorites of midwives, mamas and Wise Women are simple tea infusions of nourishing herbs such as comfrey, raspberry leaf, netles, alfalfa, or red clover to encourage a plentiful supply of breast milk and relaxed, healthy mama. These are mineral rich and prtoect mama from mineral loss during stress of nursing and caring for infant. You can rotate, using each one for a week, to derive the unique benefits of each.
Good foods:  apricots, asparagus, green beans, carrots, sweet potatoes, peas, pecans, and all leafy greens such as beet, parsley, watercress, and dandelion leaves are considered helpful in increasing and sustaining lactation.
1)  Blessed Thistle is famed for its ability to increase milk supply (in the Mother's Milk tea mentioned above). You can also take as a tincture up to 20 drops, 2-4 times daily. It is said to remove suicidal feelings and lift depression as well. You see it in almost every West Coast garden.
2)  1/2 a cup of Borage leave infusion at each nursing insures abundant milk and acts as a mild laxative and soothes nerves.
3)  Fennel/Barley Water - prepare by soakng 1/2 cup pearled (regular) barley in 3 cups cold water overnight or boiling for 25 minutes. Strain out barley and heat a cup or two of the barley water to boiling, store rest in frige. Pour 1 coup boiling barley water over 1 tsp fennel seeds and steep for no longer than 30 min. This combo increases breast milk, eases after-pains and settles digestion of mama and baby.
4) Hops flowers - old remedy formothers of twins who need lots more milk - suitable for nightime feedings as brings sleep along with increased milk flow. Beer is convenient (make sure you get the beer that is additive free, also can get alcohol free and chemical free versions).
5) Your TCM practitioner may prescribe Jia Wei Xiao Yao Wan (I took this after my first pregnancy, when my milk seemed to dry up when I was under alot of stress - the formula calmed my nerves and brought back my milk).
1-4 came from a great resource:  Susan S. Weed's Wise Woman herbal for the Childbearing Year