The objective of this research is an attempt to show the potentiality of aniseed as a lactation process stimulant.. Women in the last three months of pregnancy were selected at the public pre-natal clinic in Aquiraz, Ceará to answer questionaries; the purpose was to select a sample of women with a common history of milk. From the results obtained in the research intend to recommend the use of aniseed/appropriate techonology as one more strategy in improving the health, of both mother and child.