My family very believe in Chinese medicine healing, so from young I’ve been educate to practice Chinese medicine, after all it been practice for 2000 years, but I also live in modern world, so now I have my own judgement on when to use Chinese medicine and when I need to see doctor.
I follow most of the confinement practise by after consult a ’shin se”, I bath and wash my hair with herbs, took a lot boiling plain water, red date water, ginger water, eat a lot ginger, and Appeton C18, B complex, and strictly no carry heavy stuff and not walk too much ( for the womb not to drop, yes, I believe that).
I believe all this really help me on my health, at least after my confinement I have very good complexion, even though I’m tired and run down by the girls.
the “shin se’ said even though if you don’t take a lot red date or ginger those thing, as long you rest well, and take a lot vitamins supplement, you’ll still doing well.
I have to said Malaysian is very lucky, we have all sort of healing, supplement for us to choose, Chinese, Malay, Indian, Western, sometime even though we already mix those method but we don’t realise it, like urut during confinement, how many mat saleh know about this? so, I’ll just follow it, and like my mom said because Chinese mom had confinement, that’s why we don’t age so fast like westerners, my mom no scientist, she can’t prove that, but being a good girl, I always listen to what my mom said .
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Maria (mother of twin girls–Isabelle & Annabelle, born 25th Nov 2002)