Hi Summer, this confinement suggestion was posted earlier by one gal. I've cut and paste it here for you. hope it helps.
Confinement Suggestion:
If you can go to Chinese sinseh and ask for "Sheng1 Hua4 Tang1"... it's to be drank after giving birth to remove all the "dirty blood".
Please abstain from any cooling / cold stuffs from now for the next 1 mth. also no prawns, sotong, crab... no liang and cold stuffs....cabbage, kang kong, etc.....
Just take more tonic and more ginger. Dun drink water. Drink red date, "Gou Qi Zi", Dried black Longan, "Dang3 Shen1", "Bei3 Qi3" and some ginger. Boil for 30-40 mins and drink as water.
It will help to get rid of the bloatedness, "Bu Qi", "Bu Xue", and "Ming2 Mu" - good for eyes....
it's very impt for you to take all the nutritional stuffs and also to get rid of the "wind" in the body. That way you will be able to nourish your body well.
1) Everyday drink the red date tea mentioned above like water. Dun drink water.
2) Morning drink a bottle of chicken essence on empty stomach. After 10-15 mins take your normal breakfast
3) Lunch/Dinner, mee sua with soup or tonic soup with rice and veg. and remember use lots of ginger.
4) drink DOM before you sleep every night.
Your body is in a very good state to absorb the most now. So, dun let it pass.... take as much as you can.
E.g of tonic soup.
1) "Dang Shen", "Bei Qi", "Huai Shan", Gou Qi Zi, black dates, add half/whole black chicken with 1 bowl of water and 1/2 cup of martel.
You can chose to fry some ginger slice with sesame oil and then add normal chicken followed with martel before pouring into slow cooker with the herbs to boil.
2) Fry ginger with sesame oil and fry some chicken/meat. Can add mushroom is you wan. add water boil and add some salt, pepper and soya sauce... after water boil add mee sua.
3) "Pao shen with Chong Chao" and gou qi zhi , black date with black chicken.
However, I have chosen to mill "Pao shen and chong cao" into powder. Can take 2-4 everyday during this period.
Remember to ask for "Lao Pao shen". It must be warm in nature. Not those cooling Pao shen
4) Fry ginger slices with sesame oil, add chicken dice, add mushroom... stir fry... add some seasoning, add 2 tablespoon of DOM and fry... then add a little of the mushroom water used to soak the mushroom. This also quite nice. Very sweet.
5) After your blood clear Totally, can drink "Dang gui bu xue Tang", "Ba Zhen" and "Bai Feng Wan" with black chicken
6) Liver soup - add water with ginger after boil, add mince meat balls, when almost cook, add liver (dun boil too long). add some soya sauce and some salt and pepper for taste. Can add mee sua to be taken as a meal
After blood clear totally, can add danggui. E.g
1) Chicken /Fish soup with black fungus, ginger slices, danggui, red date, add mee sua. Add some chinese red wine or XO just before you off the heat.
For the red date tea, after your blood clears, you can add danggui instead of dangshen and bei qi as mentioned above.
my sinseh adviced me to take for 30 days then can stop liao....after that drink the prescribe herbal soup once a week...
If start to feel heaty, then can start cutting down...
Use the herbs to shower, cos I felt it make a difference.
Depending on each person's constitution.. some are stronger, so can recover better. must just be safe then sorry lor.
Hope this is useful.
In case, u want to know the ingredients in Sheng Hua Tang... Managed to ask my mom to "kaypo" with the ppl in the chinese medical hall...
Dang Gui (radix angelicae sinensis)5-15g
Chuan Xiong (radix ligustici chuanxiong)3-10g
Tao Ren (semen persicae)6-12g
Pao Jiang (quick fried rhizoma zingiberis officinalis)2-10g
Zhi Gan Cao (honey fried radix glycyrrhizae uralensis)2-10g
Getting the ingredients yourself will be much more cheaper... Don't go Eu Ren Sheng to get... really very expensive...