Chinese Herbs for Confinement

Chinese believe that confinement period is like "Tuo Tai Huan Gu" for all after-birth women. During our ancestor age, ladies which were extremely weak or sick were told by their elderly to get pregnant & were believe that they will regain a new life after a good confinement period.

Even though we are now at modern age, but there are still a lot of us believing in the importance of confinement practice. After birth mother are still practising the healing procedure by taking numerous Chinese herbs and remedies during the 30 days confinement period. Some of them even keep up the confinement practises for up to 100 days. There are many "pantang" or "regulations" that need to be followed in order to gain the most benefits during the recovery process & to prevent after delivery's side-effect in future.

Of course my wife will be following the confinement practise as well. My mother-in-law has prepared some of the Chinese herbs remedies during her last visit to Puchong on 7th December 2007. There are at least 10 different herbs she has brought from Sungai Petani, Kedah. The herbs include "Dang Shen", Red & Black Dates, dried "Longan", "Ji Zi", "Dang Gui", "Du Zhong" & many more. My mum also has bought some herbs for my wife to use for bathing, and she has also booked those food ingredient (like pig's Mesentery, kidney, liver, shanks, etc) needed during the confinement. My grandma and my aunt have also prepared some "Fried Raw Rice" & "Bentong Ginger" for us (Picture shown below).

"Fried Raw Rice" mix with hot pure water is use as drinking water during confinement period. Some people also uses black bean instead of raw rice.