'Herbal Womb Detox Pearls’: A Load Of Balls?
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US company Embrace Pangaea are making some pretty wild claims about the benefits of their “herbal womb detox pearls”.
Embrace Pangea say their “herbal womb detox pearls” are “designed to cleanse the womb and return it to a balance [sic] state.” It’s hard to decipher exactly why the company think it’s a good idea for any woman to insert a mesh ball of perfumed herbs in her vagina. Their website is decidedly vague.
Perhaps the most frightening discovery we made was a sketchy hypothesis on a blog post by Embrace Pangea theorising that “womb imbalances” are a consequence of women seeking “false love” through promiscuous behaviour. Supposedly this causes the womb to store “different energies,” the fallout of which is “the woman having a womb imbalance such as foul odour, fibroids, endometriosis or itching.”
Those are some staggering claims. Not least because the exact cause endometriosis is unknown even to the medical profession.
The company say: “The womb is not only a vessel for bringing in souls to the physical plane, but also a vessel that can hold on to emotional, physical, and spiritual trauma and pain.”
Moons, spoons and dunes aside, what do Embrace Pangea, actually reckon these herb balls do? Well, supposedly they’re beneficial for “major imbalances that modern woman [sic] experience” including “bacteria [sic] vaginosis”, shrinking of fibroids, uterus cleansing and vaginal tightening.
There doesn’t appear to be any scientific research to back these claims up but there are some pretty graphic photos of what ladies can expect their discharge to look like post-pearl insertion. We’ll spare you the visual but let’s just say it looks like a vagina puked up a meaty brown furball. In a disparaging blog about the pearls, US Gynecologyst, Dr Jen Gunter said: “This discharge isn’t some toxic swill that the vagina was hiding that only the “pearls” could release, it’s a sign that these “pearls” are damaging.”
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Dr Gunter says: “Your uterus isn’t tired or depressed or dirty and your vagina has not misplaced its chakra. They want no real help from you unless there is something wrong and they will tell you there is something wrong by bleeding profusely or itching or cramping badly or producing an odour.”
She refuted claims made by Embrace Pangea that the pearls could be beneficial; rather, they could increase the risk of toxic shock syndrome, damage the good bacteria and lining of the vagina and create the perfect breeding ground for infection.
A “Monthly womb maintenance package” costs between $75 (£52) - $180 (£126). Dr Gunter says: “There is no such thing as a detox or a cleanse, they are fake terms used by snake oil salespeople to lighten wallets.”
Ever heard your vagina requesting a herbal womb detox? Nah. Didn’t think so.
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